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[Transcriber's note:
In Memoriam
Michael S. Hart (1947-2011),
Inventor of the e-Book
and
Founder of Project Gutenberg
]
=================================A History of the Republican Partyby George Washington Platt=================================
[Frontispiece: Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley.]
A History
Republican Party
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"And summon from the shadowy Past,
The forms that once have been."
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C. J. KREHBIEL & CO.,CINCINNATI, O.1904
Copyright, 1904,by GEO. W. PLATT.All rights reserved.
Inscribed
to the Memory of
the three Martyred Republican Presidents
LINCOLN, GARFIELD, McKINLEY.
Early in February, 1900, the writer delivered an address before theStamina Republican League of Cincinnati on "The Origin and Rise of theRepublican Party." The interest in the subject shown by the audience andthe many words of approbation led to a deeper consideration of thehistory of the Party, and the address was repeated on a more elaborateplan before many other organizations in Cincinnati and vicinity.
It soon became apparent that the great majority of every audience hadvery vague recollections of the tragic events which led to theorganization of the Party, and of its early history, owing perhaps tothe fact that they belonged to a generation that had followed theenactment of those events. It was also clear that those who had lived inthe momentous decade before the Civil War were deeply interested andstirred by a new recital of the history of that period, and thus it wassuggested that a History of the Republican Party might prove of interestand value.
Like the place of Homer's birth that of the Republican Party is indispute, but it is believed that the facts herein narrated are supportedby the weight of evidence.
It is hoped that this work does not display so much partisanship as tomake it uninteresting to members of other political parties in theUnited States.
GEO. W. PLATT.
Cincinnati, February, 1904.