Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1908 — PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS SINCE 1856. [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS SINCE 1856.

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There have been thirteen campaigns by the Republican and Democratic parties. Republican CandMetet. 1866—Fremont and Dayton. 1860—Lincoln and Hamlin. 1864 —Lincoln and / Johnson. 1868—<3rant and Colfax. ----- 1872—Grant and Wiluon. 1876—Hayes and Wheeler. 1880—Garfield and Arthur. , . 1884—Blaine and Logan. 1888—Harrison and Morton. 1892-—Harrison and Reid. 1896—McKinley and Hobart. 1900 —McKinley and Roosevelt. 1904—Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Democratic Candidates. • .m 1856—Buchanan and Breckinridge,' 1860 —Douglas and Johnson.* 1864—McClellan and Pendleton. 1888 —Seymour and Blair, 1872 —Greeley and Brown. 1876—Tilden and Hendricks. 1880—Hancock and English. 1884 —Cleveland and Hendricks. 1888^—Cleveland and Thurman. 1892 —Cleveland and Stevenson. 189&—Bryan and Sewall. 1900—Bryan and Stevenson. 1904—Parker and Davis. *Ry the northern Democrats and Brechinridge and Lane by the southern Democrata. " t ----- - - Electoral Votes. The number of electoral votes received by the two parties in these contests and the pluralities are shown here: Rep. Dem. Plu. 1856.. j 1.114 174 60 D 1860 180 *72 108 R 1804.. ...212 21 191 R 1808 214 80 134 R 1872.. 286 63 223 R 1876 ....185 184 1 R 1880 214 155 C 59 R 1884 182 219 37 D ISBB 233 168 65 R 1892 ....271 ’ 176 132 D 1896.. 271 176 95 R 1900 vv> 292 155 137 R 1904. *. . .336 140 196 R ♦The electoral vote of the Breckin-ridge-Laqe ticket of the southern Democrats; the Douglas-Johnson ticket of the northern Democrats received 12.