(PRESIDENTS 1880 CAMPAIGN) Grand Rally Those Who Think Alik

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(PRESIDENTS--1880 CAMPAIGN.) Grand Rally: Those Who Think Alike Should Act Together; The Greenbackers of Newburgh. Illustrated broadside, 29 x 21 inches; light soiling along right edge, minor edge wear. Bangor, ME: O.F. & W.H. Knowles, 21 August 1880

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The Greenback Party was a third party which nominated James B. Weaver for the presidency. He drew 305,997 votes, good for 3.3% and a very distant third behind Garfield and Hancock. The party had a national presence, as shown by this poster for a rally held in Newburgh, Maine, a rural township near Bangor with 1,053 residents in 1880. The featured speaker was Alonzo Jackson Grover, a local Maine boy who had moved to Illinois; he had been a prominent abolitionist before the war, before becoming a Greenback Party activist.