Summary
THE Democratic candidate wins the Florida election by 20,000 votes. However, the Board of Registration and the Returning Board are both controlled by Republicans. The president is a Republican. The Republican candidate is declared the winner by the Republican authorities, and the president sends in the army to make sure there is no trouble from the disenfranchised voters. Was this the 2000 election or is it a prediction of Tuesday's outcome?
Neither - it was November 7, 1876. The Republican, Hayes, was declared the winner, and the Democrat, Tilden, retired to reflect on the speed at which corruption had overtaken the nation after the Civil War. The president was Grant, the leading general of the north. That tumultuous year is brilliantly depicted by Gore Vidal in his historical novel 1876. Gore Vidal, a trenchant critic of American democracy, is a distant relative of Al Gore. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, was a US senator, and was a consistent supporter of the armed forces and a consistent opponent of war. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.See the full content of this document
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What Happened in the Us Election of 1876
Peter Curran, 1b Ma...
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