GARFIELD AND ARTHUR CAMPAIGN SONG BOOK. PUBLISHED BY THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE, WASHINGTON, D.C. by Election of 1880 - 1880

[Washington, 1880. 31, [1 blank] pp. Caption title as issued. 'No. 27.' at head of title. Disbound, else Very Good. The Platforms demonstrate the Democrats' commitment to State Rights, Secession, and disloyalty.

[np, 1880. 4pp, folded sheet, caption title, light upper corner spotting. Very Good. The pamphlet supports the Republican platform, urges payment in full of the public debt, and protection for the Nation's bondholders. Denouncing the Democrats for urging an infusion of paper money, which would injure the bondholders, it reminds the voters that, "In our desperate struggle with the rebellion it was the spotless credit of the Government that enabled us to conquer and to preserve the Union." Democrats then sought to undermine the public credit, just as they do now. FIRST EDITION. 489 NUC 0186372 [1].

1880. Caption title [as issued]. 8pp, with light wear and old folds. 'No. 86.' printed at top of first page. Good+. A Republican campaign pamphlet, arguing that the triumph of the 'Solid South' would impoverish the country. Southerners have "the conceit of political sagacity. It is their boast that this country will never be properly governed until Southern statesmanship shall again bear sway." But when the numbers are crunched, the South has lagged behind the North in every index of economic prosperity. The Solid South's share of the "commercial, industrial, financial, and educational interests of the country" is disproportionately small. Its pretensions to "dictate the course of the National Government" is absurd. OCLC locates 12, under two accession numbers.

[Concord, NH?, 1880. Broadside, 11-3/8" x 15-1/4". Printed in a variety of type sizes and fonts. Bit of wrinkling, else Very Good. General James Garfield was the Republicans' 1880 presidential candidate; General Winfield Scott Hancock ran for the Democrats. Garfield's supporters claim here that protective tariffs "favor American labor." Garfield's laudable support for tariffs is contrasted with the views of Hancock and his party. Reduction or elimination of tariffs would "be a movement to equalize wages here with the lowest prevailing in the Old World." We suggest a New Hampshire imprint because that State's Democratic candidate for Governor, Frank Jones, is pilloried here for opposing protective legislation. Not located on OCLC, or the online sites of AAS, New Hampshire Historical Society, or Rauner Library as of April 2023.