PUBLIC OPINION / MR. BRISTOW AND THE PRESIDENCY / [caption title, followed by nine paragraphs of dense text, printed in two columns on both sides of a single sheet]

[Boston or New York?]: 1876. Printed broadside, 12 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches, the headline in bold all capitals. An endorsement for Benjamin H. Bristow for the Republican nomination for President in 1876. Bristow (1832-1896; lawyer, Union field officer during the Civil War)), a native of Kentucky, served as the first Solicitor General of the United States (1870-1872) and as Secretary of the Treasury (1874-1876), prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan in the first office and breaking up the corrupt Whiskey Ring during the Grant administration in the second. The “opinion” offered here supported Bristow’s unsuccessful quest for the Republican nomination in 1876, pointing to his various strengths of character show by his fights during the Grant administration, printing positive assessments from New York and Boston periodicals, and recommending the use of the Kentucky state nominating convention as a model for other states. Apparently unrecorded on OCLC. The broadside is laid into a home-made folder, the other pages with newspaper clippings supportive of Bristow’s campaign affixed, the cover illustrated with a newspaper portrait and a mounted silk campaign ribbon (“Bristow” in blue on a white 1 3/8 x 3 ½ inch ribbon). Very good. Item #67710

Price: $250.00