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1876 Broadside - Seven Tests of Republican Admini

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1876 Broadside - Seven Tests of Republican Admini
<B>1876 Broadside - Seven Tests of Republican Administration</B></I> <I>The Republican Party still the Party of Safety, Progress and Reform.</B></I> A very interesting and rare broadside being the text of a speech by O. C. Moore given at Springfield, Massachussetts on October 6, 1876. Mr. Moore, a Book and Job Printer from Nashua, was obviously a staunch Republican. The purpose of his speech was to sway voters to his party by refuting the seven reform planks of the Democratic platform being: 1. To restore the public credit; 2. To pay the public debt; 3. To reduce governmental expenditures and taxation; 4. To purify the civil service; 5. To restore the business and industry of the country; 6. To attain specie payments; 7. To restore peace and local self-government to the South. Moore proceeds to address each of these in detail (it appears to have been a long speech). Fine condition, with two intersecting folds. Very slight weakness at the folds is noted for accuracy. By the way, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes did win the election... eventually. Rare- the first one of these we've encountered. Lot:259