The Struggle Of '72: Issues and Candidates Present Political Campaign; Containing Biographical Sketches of All the Candidates for President, and Vice-President; History and Platforms of the Great, Political Parties; Facts about Public Men and Measures; Re

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Tm: Republican party of the United States has been entrusted with the management of the national affairs since 186 r - a pe riod of nearly three successive Presidential terms. During that period this party has had to meet and overcome, at almost every step of its progress, political difficulties more serious than any which the nation has ever known before since its birth; and it has met them with a success which has won the admiration of the world. And so completely has the world identified the Republican party with the stability and dignity of the nation, that the prospects of its success or defeat in pending elections have regulated the upward or downward tendencies of the na tional securities, and such other indices as serve to show the estimation in which a country is held abroad.

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