[1884 ELECTION]. -- [BLAINE, James G.]. Broadsides from the 1884 Blaine and Logan campaign including "The Republican Ticket" with jugate portraits.
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[1884 ELECTION]. -- [BLAINE, James G.]. Broadsides from the 1884 Blaine and Logan campaign including "The Republican Ticket" with jugate portraits.
The Republican Ticket. A Free Ballot for the Whole Country. [New Hampshire]: N.p., [1884]. 6 5/16 x 10 1/4 in. (lower section lacking). With jugate portraits of Blaine and Logan. -- Grand Torch Light Prade! [Milford, MA]: Milford Journal Steam Job Print, 1884. 5 3/4 x 11 7/8 in. (toned, small chips to edges). A parade with "members of the Blaine and Logan Club" and a performance by the Woonsocket [Rhode Island] Cornet Band. -- Excursion! To Ottumwa. [Iowa]: N.p., [1884]. 5 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. (a few stains at edges). Advertising a rally and "the grandest torch-light parade of the campaign will take place in the evening. The Bloomfield Blaine and Logan Club will take torches and uniforms." -- A Warning to Young Men. N.p.: N.p., [1884]. 5 x 8 in. A humorous mock funeral invitation "to attend the funeral of the once sainted and immortal Grow-over Cleave-land who died politically Nov. 4th 1884, and will be interred March 4th 1885." It follows with pro-Blaine verse. -- America's Great Standard Bearers! Blaine and Logan! Augusta, ME: E.C. Allen & Co., [1884]. 11 3/8 x 15 3/8 in. -- Together, 5 broadsides from the 1884 presidential campaign of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan.
[With:] Order of Exercises at the Reception of Mr. Blaine...[Maine]: N.p., 1888. 5 15/16 x 13 5/8 in. (toned, linen-backed). Blaine continued to be involved with Republican politics after his failed bid for the White House. Though still popular, Blaine declined to seek the nomination in 1888 and would support Benjamin Harrison in his successful campaign.
Collection of Tom Charles Huston
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