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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4507815, member: 101855"]Does a perpetual calendar count? This piece was issued for the James G. Blain for President in 1884 campaign. It is perpetual calendar, which rather unusual for a campaign piece. Blain is pictured on the obverse and his running mate John “Black Eagle Logan is on the reverse. [ATTACH=full]1117298[/ATTACH] The Republican Party faithful loved Bllain. He was the 19th century's "Mister Republican," but he had some unsavory dealings with the railroad industry that got him into trouble. He lost to Grover Cleveland in 1884 thus making him the first Republican presidential candidate to lose since John C. Fremont in 1856. The 1884 campaign was quite nasty. The main anti-Blain slogan was "Blain, Blain, the continental liar from the state of Maine!" The Republican countered with a slogan of their own. Grover Cleveland had owned up to fathering a child out of wedlock. Cleveland surprised everyone and admitted to the whole thing without batting an eye! The Republican chanted "Paw, Paw, where's my Paw?" To which the Democrats responded after the election, "Gone to the Whitehouse, Haw, Haw Haw!"[/QUOTE]