(PRESIDENTS 1876 CAMPAIGN) Blade Extra

Sale 2253 - Lot 272

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"TILDEN ELECTED . . . HURRAH FOR DEMOCRACY!" (PRESIDENTS--1876 CAMPAIGN.) Blade-Extra. Broadside newspaper extra, 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches; slight wear at folds, small ink stain; name penciled on verso. Morganton, NC, 10 November 1876

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We all know "Dewey Defeats Truman," but here is an earlier example of a newspaper which made a premature election call. The headline reads "The country saved. Grand results of the great elections. Tilden elected. Vance Governor. Hurrah for Democracy!" The 1876 Hayes-Tilden contest was closely contested and bitterly controversial. Although Tilden did win the popular vote, a dispute over the Electoral College votes was not settled for months.