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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Featured article Шаблон:Use American English Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Use shortened footnotes Шаблон:Infobox National Political Convention The 1880 Greenback Party National Convention convened in Chicago from June 9 to June 11 to select presidential and vice presidential nominees and write a party platform for the Greenback Party in the United States presidential election 1880. Delegates chose James B. Weaver of Iowa for President and Barzillai J. Chambers of Texas for Vice President.

The Greenback Party was a newcomer to the political scene in 1880, having arisen, mainly in the nation's West and South, as a response to the economic depression that followed the Panic of 1873. During the Civil War, Congress had authorized "greenbacks", a form of money redeemable in government bonds rather than in then-traditional gold. After the war, many Democrats and Republicans in the East sought to return to the gold standard, and the government began withdrawing greenbacks from circulation. The resulting reduction of the money supply, combined with the economic depression, made life harder for debtors, farmers, and industrial laborers; the Greenback Party hoped to draw support from these groups.

Six men were candidates for the presidential nomination. Weaver, an Iowa congressman and Civil War general was the clear favorite, but two other congressmen, Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts and Hendrick B. Wright of Pennsylvania, also commanded considerable followings. Weaver triumphed quickly, winning a majority of the 850 delegates' votes on the first ballot. Chambers, a Texas businessman and Confederate veteran, was likewise nominated on the initial vote. The fight over the platform was more tumultuous, as delegates from disparate factions of the left-wing movement clashed over women's suffrage, Chinese immigration, and the extent to which the government should regulate working conditions. Votes for women was the most contentious of these, with the party ultimately endorsing the suffragists' cause, despite a vocal minority's opposition.

Weaver and Chambers left the convention with high hopes for the third party's cause, but in the end, they were disappointed. The election was a close contest between the Republican, James A. Garfield, and the Democrat, Winfield Scott Hancock, with Garfield being the victor. The Greenback ticket placed a distant third, netting just over three percent of the popular vote.

Background

Origins

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An 1862 greenback five-dollar bill

The Greenback Party was a newcomer to politics in 1880, having first nominated candidates for national office four years earlier.Шаблон:Sfn The party had arisen, mostly in the West and South, as a response to the economic depression that followed the Panic of 1873.Шаблон:Sfn During the Civil War, Congress had authorized "greenbacks", a new form of fiat money that was redeemable not in gold but in government bonds.Шаблон:Sfn The greenbacks had helped to finance the war when the government's gold supply did not keep pace with the expanding costs of maintaining the armies. When the crisis had passed, many in both the Democratic and Republican parties, especially in the East, wanted to return the nation's currency to a gold standard as soon as possible (candidates who favored the gold-backed currency were called "hard money" supporters, while the policy of encouraging inflation was known as "soft money").Шаблон:Sfn The Specie Payment Resumption Act, passed in 1875, ordered that greenbacks be gradually withdrawn and replaced with a gold-backed currency, beginning in 1879.Шаблон:Sfn At the same time, economic depression had made it more expensive for debtors to pay debts they had contracted when the currency was less valuable.Шаблон:Sfn Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans offered a home to those who favored retaining greenbacks, so many looked to create a third party that would address their concerns.Шаблон:Sfn Greenbackers drew support from the growing labor movement in the nation's Eastern cities, as well as from Western and Southern farmers who had been harmed by deflation.Шаблон:Sfn Beyond their support for a larger money supply, they also favored an eight-hour work day, safety regulations in factories, and an end to child labor.Шаблон:Sfn As one author put it, they "anticipated by almost fifty years the progressive legislation of the first quarter of the twentieth century".Шаблон:Sfn

In 1876, various independent delegates gathered in Indianapolis to nominate a presidential ticket to campaign on those issues.Шаблон:Sfn For president, they chose Peter Cooper, an 85-year-old industrialist and philanthropist from New York, with Samuel Fenton Cary, a former congressman from Ohio, as his running mate.Шаблон:Sfn The Greenback ticket fared poorly in the election that November, attracting just 81,740 votes—less than 1% of the total.Шаблон:Sfn As bad economic times continued, however, the party gained momentum. Labor unrest the following year, culminating in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, added to many laborers' alienation from the two major parties.Шаблон:Sfn Local movements, like California's Workingmen's Party, began to agitate for laws to improve the condition of laborers (and for an end to Chinese immigration).Шаблон:Sfn By 1878, the third-party movement had become strong enough to elect 22 independents to the federal House of Representatives, most tied in some way to the Greenback movement.Шаблон:Sfn As the 1880 presidential election approached, members of the Greenback Party (or Greenback-Labor Party, as it was sometimes known) had reason to believe that they could improve on the results of 1876.Шаблон:Sfn

Party split

Attempts to fuse the disparate state and local parties into a national force led to friction between party leaders.Шаблон:Sfn By 1879, there was a clear split, as a group led by Marcus M. "Brick" Pomeroy formed their own "Union Greenback Labor Party".Шаблон:Sfn Pomeroy's group of mostly Southern and Western Greenbackers was opposed to electoral fusion with either of the two major parties and took more radical positions on monetary policy—including payment of all federal bonds in greenbacks, rather than the gold dollars originally promised to investors.Шаблон:Sfn They also differed from the Eastern-centered rump party (often called the "National Greenback Party") in calling for the popular election of postmasters and the death penalty as punishment for corruption in public office.Шаблон:Sfn After a January 1880 conference in Washington, D.C. failed to unite the factions, each party called for its own national convention to nominate candidates for president.Шаблон:Sfn

The Union Greenbackers held their convention first, meeting in St. Louis in March 1880.Шаблон:Sfn Although much of the young party's leadership remained with the Eastern faction, the March gathering included Solon Chase and Kersey Graves, among other third-party notables.Шаблон:Sfn They nominated Stephen D. Dillaye, a New Jersey lawyer and journalist, for President and Barzillai J. Chambers, a Texas merchant and surveyor, for Vice President.Шаблон:Sfn Because Dillaye had previously declared he was not interested in the nomination, many delegates protested, seeing Dillaye as a placeholder for eventual reunification with the National Greenbackers.Шаблон:Sfn Dillaye himself supported reunification, and Pomeroy also urged the delegates to send representatives to the Easterners' convention, which was set for June 1880 in Chicago.Шаблон:Sfn The majority agreed with the sentiment, and Union Greenbackers gathered in Chicago along with National Greenbackers as their convention began a few months later.Шаблон:Sfn

Candidates

Weaver

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Representative James B. Weaver of Iowa

James Baird Weaver grew up on the Iowa frontier, and was involved with the Republican Party from its early days in the late 1850s.Шаблон:Sfn At the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Union Army.Шаблон:Sfn Weaver saw action at the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Resaca, and rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general.Шаблон:Sfn After the war, he continued to be active in Iowa Republican politics. Weaver sought nomination to the House of Representatives and the Governorship, but each time was defeated by candidates from the party's more conservative faction, led by William B. Allison.Шаблон:Sfn He campaigned for the Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, but also attended the 1876 Greenback National Convention as an observer.Шаблон:Sfn

By 1877, differences with the Republican party leadership on the money question led him to consider other options.Шаблон:Sfn After initially supporting the Republican candidate for governor that year, Weaver joined the Greenback Party in August.Шаблон:Sfn In 1878, Weaver accepted the Greenback nomination for Iowa's 6th congressional district.Шаблон:Sfn Although Weaver's political career up to then had been as a staunch Republican, Democrats in the 6th district considered that endorsing him was likely the only way to defeat Ezekiel S. Sampson, the incumbent Republican.Шаблон:Sfn Despite objections from some hard-money Democrats, the Greenback-Democrat ticket prevailed, and Weaver was elected with 16,366 votes to Sampson's 14,307.Шаблон:Sfn

Weaver entered the 46th Congress in March 1879.Шаблон:Sfn Although the House was closely divided, neither major party included the Greenbackers in its caucus, leaving them few committee assignments and little input on legislation.Шаблон:Sfn Weaver gave his first speech in April 1879, criticizing the use of the army to police Southern polling stations, while also decrying the violence against black Southerners that made such protection necessary; he then described the Greenback platform, which he said would put an end to the sectional and economic strife.Шаблон:Sfn The next month, he spoke in favor of a bill calling for an increase in the money supply by allowing the unlimited coinage of silver, but the bill was easily defeated.Шаблон:Sfn Weaver's oratorical skill drew praise, and while he was unable to advance Greenback policy ideas, he was soon considered the front-runner for the presidential nomination in 1880.Шаблон:Sfn

Butler

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Former Representative Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts

Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, and later moved to Massachusetts to pursue a legal career.Шаблон:Sfn He built a successful practice in the 1840s and 1850s, and became involved in local politics as a Democrat.Шаблон:Sfn A compelling public speaker, Butler was first elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1853.Шаблон:Sfn He successfully ran for a Massachusetts Senate seat in 1859.Шаблон:Sfn Despite his Protestant upbringing he gained a faithful following among Massachusetts Catholics and also built support among laborers.Шаблон:Sfn In the 1860 presidential campaign, Butler sought compromise with the slave power, and believed Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi ought to be the Democratic Party's nominee for president.Шаблон:Sfn

Butler had been elected a brigadier general of the Massachusetts militia, and when the Civil War began in 1861, he quickly organized his men and marched south.Шаблон:Sfn Butler's men occupied Baltimore to ensure that Maryland did not follow its fellow Southern states into secession.Шаблон:Sfn He was promoted to major general in May of that year, and sent to command at Fort Monroe in Virginia, where he pioneered the tactic of seizing and freeing slaves as "contraband of war".Шаблон:Sfn When Union forces captured New Orleans, Butler was sent to command there.Шаблон:Sfn Butler's rule was harsh, and he became especially reviled among Southern whites, to whom he was known as "Beast" Butler.Шаблон:Sfn He was transferred to the Virginia theater in 1863, where he worked under General Ulysses S. Grant's direction in the campaigns that led to the Confederacy's defeat.Шаблон:Sfn

After the war, Butler was elected to Congress as a Republican and soon came to identify with that party's more radical element.Шаблон:Sfn In 1868, he was among the leaders in President Andrew Johnson's impeachment.Шаблон:Sfn Butler's wartime exploits earned him support among blacks and abolitionists, which, combined with his existing base among laborers, ensured his reelection for several terms.Шаблон:Sfn His radicalism made him enemies among conservative Republicans, however, and when he lost his seat in the Democratic wave of 1874, he began to shift his allegiance to the nascent Greenback Party.Шаблон:Sfn In 1876, he returned to the House as a Republican, but in 1878 he ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Massachusetts as an independent Greenbacker with Democratic support.Шаблон:Sfn Butler had supporters across the political spectrum—he was often said to be "a member of all parties and false to each"—and was considered a presidential possibility when the Greenbackers convened in Chicago in 1880.Шаблон:Sfn

Wright

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Representative Hendrick B. Wright of Pennsylvania

Hendrick Bradley Wright was born and raised in northeastern Pennsylvania.Шаблон:Sfn After studying law at Dickinson College, Wright returned to Wilkes-Barre and quickly became known as a gifted attorney and orator.Шаблон:Sfn His powers of speech earned him notice in Pennsylvania Democratic Party circles, as well as the nickname "Old-Man-Not-Afraid-To-Be-Called-A-Demagogue".Шаблон:Sfn He became a district attorney for Luzerne County in 1834 and was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1841.Шаблон:Sfn Wright was reelected in 1842 and 1843, serving as Speaker in his final term.Шаблон:Sfn He served as president of the 1844 Democratic National Convention, working with the anti-Van Buren faction to prevent that former President's nomination.Шаблон:Sfn After the convention, he sought a seat in the United States Senate, but was unsuccessful.Шаблон:Sfn

Wright was defeated for election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1850 but was successful in 1852.Шаблон:Sfn Defeated for reelection in 1854, he ran in 1860 as a Democrat with Republican support and was elected to represent Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district.Шаблон:Sfn He spoke against the Peace Democrats early in the Civil War, but by 1864, believing the Union war aims had changed for the worse, he supported Democrat George B. McClellan for the presidency.Шаблон:Sfn Wright did not run for reelection, returning to private life in 1863. He continued his legal career and published writings on the relationship between labor and capital.Шаблон:Sfn His book A Practical Treatise on Labor was published in 1871.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1876, Wright was elected to his old seat in Congress as a Democrat, but with support from the small Greenback movement.Шаблон:Sfn In 1878, the situation was reversed: Wright ran as a Greenbacker but was reelected with support by Democrats.Шаблон:Sfn He attracted attention in Congress with his proposal to amend the Homestead Act of 1862 to establish government loans to would-be settlers of the West, making it easier for landless Easterners to claim homesteads there.Шаблон:Sfn Congress was, on the whole, not receptive to Wright's proposal.Шаблон:Sfn Wright proposed it again in 1879 and emphasized the conservatism of his proposal, that it was a loan secured by the homestead, not a gift from the state; even so, the bill went down to overwhelming defeat.Шаблон:Sfn Despite his failure, Wright, like Weaver, had raised his profile as a potential presidential nominee by attempting to advance Greenback ideas in Congress.Шаблон:Sfn

Other contenders

Several favorite son candidates had delegates interested in their nomination, although they were seen as having less of a chance of gaining the nomination.Шаблон:Sfn Alexander Campbell had represented Illinois in the House of Representatives several years earlier. He was seen as a pragmatist who represented the Greenback Party's more conservative members. Henly James was the head of the Grange in Indiana and had served in the state legislature there, but attracted little support outside his own delegation.Шаблон:Sfn In the Wisconsin delegation, many favored Edward P. Allis, an industrialist who owned the Reliance Iron Works.Шаблон:Sfn Allis was a longtime supporter of soft money but had no experience in elected office.Шаблон:Sfn Finally, Solon Chase of Maine had some support from the New England delegations.Шаблон:Sfn Chase was a publisher of a Greenback newspaper, Chase's Inquirer, and had narrowly lost a House election in 1878.Шаблон:Sfn Chase was among the most radical of the Greenbackers, attracting support from the party's left-wing members.Шаблон:Sfn

Convention

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The Interstate Exposition Building in Chicago

Preliminaries

The National Greenback Party delegates assembled in the Interstate Exposition Building in Chicago on Wednesday, June 9, 1880.Шаблон:Sfn The Republican convention took place in the same building and had only just ended after a record 36 rounds of balloting.Шаблон:Sfn When the Greenbackers arrived, the Republicans' banners still hung from the walls, so the delegates were greeted by images of Abraham Lincoln and Thaddeus Stevens as they entered.Шаблон:Sfn The building, popularly known as the "Glass Palace", had been built in 1873 for an Interstate Industrial Exposition.Шаблон:EfnШаблон:Sfn

Franklin P. Dewees of the party's executive committee called the convention to order at 12:30 p.m. on June 9.Шаблон:Sfn Reverend Pearl P. Ingalls of Iowa said a brief prayer and the convention was opened.Шаблон:Sfn Gilbert De La Matyr, a Methodist minister and Greenback congressman from Indiana, was unanimously chosen as temporary chairman.Шаблон:Sfn After De La Matyr gave a brief, fiery speech, they proceeded to call the roll, which included delegates from every state except Oregon.Шаблон:Sfn As the roll call finished, Matilda Joslyn Gage, a suffragist, mounted the stage, provoking cheers from some delegates and howls of outrage from others.Шаблон:Sfn She called for the new party to recognize women's right to vote, but the issue was avoided temporarily when the delegates voted to send her petition to a committee for further study.Шаблон:Sfn

Reunification

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Richard Trevellick was the convention's permanent chairman.

The Union Greenback convention had reconvened at nearby Farwell Hall and sent an emissary to the National Greenbackers.Шаблон:Sfn The delegates voted to join the other faction in a special conference committee to work for reunification, then adjourned until 7:30 p.m. that evening.Шаблон:Sfn While they waited for the committees to finish their work, the delegates listened to speeches by several prominent Greenbackers, including Denis Kearney, a California labor leader, and William Wallace, a Canadian parliamentarian and advocate for currency reform.Шаблон:Sfn Meanwhile, the Credentials Committee voted narrowly to admit the Union Greenbackers, as well as a delegation from the Socialist Labor Party.Шаблон:Sfn The Committee on Permanent Organization voted to recommend Richard F. Trevellick, a Michigan trade union organizer, as the permanent chairman of the convention.Шаблон:Sfn None of the reports were finished by the appointed time, so the convention adjourned again until 10:45 a.m. Thursday morning.Шаблон:Sfn

When they reconvened, the Credentials Committee announced that there were 608 regularly selected delegates, and recommended the admission of 185 Union Greenbackers and 44 Socialist Laborites, along with a handful of others.Шаблон:EfnШаблон:Sfn After a spirited and chaotic discussion, the convention voted to admit the other delegates in a voice vote: the party was reunified.Шаблон:Sfn Messages were sent to the Union Greenbackers and Socialist Laborites informing them of the results. In the meantime, the women's suffrage supporters again tried to convince the delegates to endorse their cause.Шаблон:Sfn Sara Andrews Spencer took the stage to give an impassioned argument for women's right to vote, while Kearney climbed a nearby platform to shout his disapproval.Шаблон:Sfn Their informal debate was interrupted by a brass band, announcing the arrival of the Union Greenbackers and Socialist Laborites.Шаблон:Sfn The convention erupted in prolonged cheering and a banner with the word "Reunion" was hoisted.Шаблон:Sfn The convention broke for a brief recess as the delegates renewed their acquaintance with the erstwhile schismatics.Шаблон:Sfn

Platform

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An 1880 cartoon in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ridicules the Greenback party as a collection of disparate radicals.

The delegates voted to address the platform before deciding on nominees, and the debate began when they reconvened at 8:45 p.m.Шаблон:Sfn Many fights and compromises had been hashed out in the Resolutions Committee already, but the delegates insisted on debating several provisions.Шаблон:Sfn On many planks, there was widespread agreement among the delegates. On the monetary issue, the platform declared that all money, whether metal or paper, should be issued by the government, not by banks (as was common for paper money at the time).Шаблон:Sfn They also called for the unlimited coinage of silver and the repayment of the national debt in bonds, rather than gold dollars.Шаблон:Sfn Other planks of the platform called for a graduated income tax, laws to mandate safe working conditions in factories, the regulation of interstate commerce, and an end to child and convict labor; all of these were familiar parts of Greenback platforms from earlier elections, and provoked no serious dissent.Шаблон:Sfn

Social issues provoked greater disagreement. Kearney's Western faction gained a victory when the platform was made to include a call for an end to Chinese immigration.Шаблон:Sfn They also turned, at last, to the issue of suffrage. They eventually agreed on a vague statement in the platform, that the party would "denounce as dangerous, the efforts everywhere manifest to restrict the right of suffrage".Шаблон:Sfn Many of the delegates found this unsatisfying and called for a separate resolution on the subject.Шаблон:Sfn After more debate, a resolution calling for the enfranchisement of "every citizen" passed by a vote of 528 to 124.Шаблон:Sfn The Socialist Labor faction proposed another resolution declaring "that land, air, and water are the grand gifts of nature to all mankind", and that no person had a right to monopolize them; the convention applauded, but the proposal was shunted off to a committee.Шаблон:Sfn

Nominations and balloting

It was nearly midnight on Thursday night when the platform fights were finished, but the delegates voted to proceed immediately to nominations for President.Шаблон:Sfn At 1:00 a.m. Friday morning, the roll call began.Шаблон:Sfn S.F. Norton proposed his fellow Illinoisan, Alexander Campbell, proclaiming his great financial knowledge and association with Lincoln.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn James Buchanan, the editor of the Indianapolis Sun, proposed Benjamin Butler. Iowa Congressman Edward H. Gillette nominated Weaver, and Frank M. Fogg of Maine proposed "the farmer's friend", Solon Chase.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Perry Talbot of Missouri nominated the Union Greenbackers' nominee, Stephen D. Dillaye, who immediately asked that his name be withdrawn.Шаблон:Sfn Pennsylvania's delegation nominated Hendrick Wright and Wisconsin's closed with the nomination of Edward P. Allis.Шаблон:Sfn

With the time now 3:25 a.m., the delegates took an informal ballot.Шаблон:Sfn Weaver led the pack with about 30% of the votes, with Wright, Dillaye, and Butler trailing at about 15% each and the remaining votes scattered among the remaining candidates.Шаблон:EfnШаблон:Sfn Supporters of Wright and Butler talked of combining their forces, but the momentum favored Weaver.Шаблон:Sfn In the first formal ballot, at 4:10 a.m., Weaver gained votes, and delegates began shifting their ballots to him.Шаблон:Sfn Without any official motion, the nomination was made unanimous, and the brass band again began to play.Шаблон:Sfn Weaver, who was staying at the nearby Palmer House hotel, was summoned to the convention.Шаблон:Sfn As they waited, the delegates turned to the vice presidential nomination. Some of Butler's supporters proposed nominating Absolom M. West of Mississippi, a more conservative Greenbacker, to balance the ticket against Weaver, whom they regarded as radical.Шаблон:Sfn West, who was present at the convention, had already disappointed the radicals by opposing women's suffrage and the eight-hour day.Шаблон:Sfn They instead proposed Barzillai J. Chambers of Texas, who had been the Union Greenbackers' nominee for vice president.Шаблон:Sfn The majority agreed, as Chambers took 403 votes to West's 311.Шаблон:Sfn

Weaver had still not arrived, and the Socialist Labor delegates took the opportunity to call for a re-vote on their land plank and the women's suffrage issue.Шаблон:Sfn The delegates overruled the chairman's decision that the question was out of order and overwhelmingly voted that the "land, air, and water" plank and a plank explicitly supporting women's suffrage should be considered "part of the platform".Шаблон:Sfn Finally, at 6:00 a.m., Weaver arrived.Шаблон:Sfn To thunderous applause, the nominee thanked the convention for its decision and accepted the nomination.Шаблон:Sfn At 6:45 a.m., the exhausted delegates adjourned.Шаблон:Sfn

Aftermath

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Greenback campaign ribbon from 1880

Three weeks later, Weaver published his formal letter of acceptance, calling for all party members to "go forth in the great struggle for human rights".Шаблон:Sfn In a departure from the political traditions of the day, Weaver himself campaigned, making speeches across the South in July and August.Шаблон:Sfn As the Greenbackers had the only ticket that included a Southerner, Weaver and Chambers hoped to make inroads in the South.Шаблон:Sfn Chambers's own participation was limited, as before reaching home from the convention, he fell and broke two ribs as he exited his train.Шаблон:Sfn He was confined to bed for several weeks and considered withdrawing from the race, but decided against it; his efforts were limited by his injuries, and his only contribution to the campaign was to publish his newspaper.Шаблон:Sfn

As the campaign progressed, Weaver's message of racial inclusion drew violent protests in the South, as the Greenbackers faced the same obstacles the Republicans did in the face of increasing black disenfranchisement.Шаблон:Sfn In the autumn, Weaver campaigned in the North, but the Greenbackers' lack of support was compounded by Weaver's refusal to run a fusion ticket in states where Democratic and Greenbacker strength might have combined to outvote the Republicans.Шаблон:Sfn

The Greenback ticket received 305,997 votes and no electoral votes, compared to 4,446,158 for the winner, Republican James A. Garfield, and 4,444,260 for Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock.Шаблон:Sfn The party was strongest in the West and South, but in no state did Weaver receive more than 12% of the vote, and his nationwide total was just 3%.Шаблон:Sfn That figure represented an improvement over the Greenback vote of 1876, but to Weaver, who expected twice as many votes as he received, it was a disappointment.Шаблон:Sfn

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