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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 7622666, member: 101855"]Here is another satirical token concerning the 1876 presidential election. Charles Dana is best remembered as the newspaper editor, Edmund Stanton hired to check up on Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War. Grant had a reputation is a drunkard, and his detractors were quick to point that out whenever there were proposals to promote him. Dana strongly recommended that Grant should be promoted to head the Union Army over the strong objections of Henry Halleck who was general in chief of the Army. After the War, Dana became part owner and managing editor of The New York Sun newspaper. Dana was a Republican, but he often took independent positions. He opposed the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, but strongly support Ulysses S. Grant for president in 1868. In 1872, he endorsed his old boss, Horace Greely, and opposed Grant’s re-election as president. In 1876 he opposed the actions of the Republican Party to deny the election to Tilden. On March 4, 1877, which was the day Rutherford B. Hays was inaugurated president, Dana had the front page of The New York Sun surrounded by black crape symbolizing the death of democracy. [ATTACH=full]1311690[/ATTACH] Some New York Republicans had had enough. Isaac Wood, who sponsored the striking of the three anti-Tilden medalets I posed earlier, had this piece made. The obverse reads: "Dedicated to Chas. A. Dana, Editor of the New York Scum" The reverse reads: "The Chinese stink-pot of American journalism, Harmless but oh so foul, Phew!" And you thought that people were nice to each other "in the good old days!"[/QUOTE]

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