The 1880 Election and The Morey Letter: a Tale of October Surprise, Immigration, Memes and Counter Memes and Nothing to Do with Today's Politics

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

Politics, History, News

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The 1880 election was close, with Democrats and Republicans seeking an advantage in its waning days when a letter hits a major city newspaper purporting to be in the hand of a candidate. It is a letter that could turn the election. With Todd Arrington, a historian at the James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio, we discuss James A. Garfield's surprise nomination and the Morey letter. We also discuss what could have been had Garfield lived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:05.0	On November 17,
0:08.0	Return to the Games that started them all.
0:12.0	No, he'd both be free. that started them all. What are the Hunger Games for?
0:15.0	They're to punish the districts.
0:18.0	Three, two,
0:20.0	run.
0:22.0	Now I don't love your eyes, but may they be in your favor.
0:25.0	The Hunger Games, the Battle of Songbirds and Snakes.
0:30.0	Experience it in Cinemas and IMAX, November 17, book tickets now.
0:35.1	It was really an October surprise, if you will, which was not a term that was really
0:40.8	used then, but that's what we can think of it as now. So, The James A Garfield would become in the nominee of his party was quite unexpected, but not totally unexpected.
1:13.0	Some people talked about it, but the odds were up against him.
1:17.0	The other contender was Grant, former president and hero of the union.
1:22.0	Another contender was James Blaine, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives,
1:27.0	and the man that he was supposed to be at the Convention speaking for, Treasury
1:33.0	John Sherman. Those were the contenders.
1:36.0	Yet as historian James Ford Rhodes said it, nobody can doubt that Garfield
1:42.0	who had this magnificent presence and Stentorian voice could
1:46.5	command the attention of the convention.
1:50.7	Garfield was very well known as a speaker, was a great speaker, was a very much sought
1:55.5	after speaker.
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