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"The 'Democ-Rats' Caught in the Presidential Trap."

Topic:
Electoral Commission
Source:
Cartoons From "Puck"
Cartoonist:
Joseph Keppler
Date:
February 28, 1877, p. 7
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Democrats had widely supported the creation of the Electoral College Commission to settle the disputed 1876 presidential election. With Justice David Davis assumed to be the deciding vote, they were confident of their chance of victory for Democratic nominee Samuel Tilden. When Davis resigned from the commission to take a seat in the U.S. Senate, and was replaced by a Republican partisan, Justice Joseph Bradley, Democrats then felt “trapped” by a process of their own making.
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