Their platform.
It was at first supposed that the choice of the convention for the Presidency would lay between Judge David Davis of Illinois, Charles
Their nominees.
But stranger than the fact that the prince of protectionists was now running for the presidency on a platform which ignored protection, was
Acceptance of the
Liberal Republican
candidates by the
Democrats.
Mr. Greeley was, indeed, in strange company, but the company had come to him. He had not gone to them. He welcomed their support, and became
Mr. Greeley and
the Democrats.