Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1866-1876

by John William Burgess

The Republican
National
Convention
of 1876.
The platform.

While there was no name before the convention commanding universal popular assent, as had been the case at the second nomination of

The nominees.

A fortnight after the nomination by the Republican convention of Rutherford B. Hayes for President and William A. Wheeler for

The National
Democratic
Convention
of 1876.
The platform.

Their candidate had virtually been determined on before they met. It could be nobody else than the popular Governor of New York, Samuel J.

The nominees.