LET REPUBLICANS KEEP THIS RECORD IN READINESS FOR DEMOCRATS WHO HOWL ABOUT INTERNAL REVENUE. DEMOCRATIC LEADERS AND BROKEN PLEDGES. THE HYPOCRACY [sic] OF DEMOCRATIC LEADERS EXPOSED. THE TAX ON TOBACCO AND FRUIT BRANDIES, IN THE OPINION OF THE LEADING SPIRITS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS, AND MUST BE TREATED AS A WAR MEASURE, AND CANNOT BE ABOLISHED UNTIL ALL THE WAR DEBT IS PAID IN FULL.
[Petersburg, VA? 1887]. 32pp, disbound with some separating, lightly foxed. Good+.
General Mahone used his war record and railroad connections to become a political powerhouse, and leader of the Virginia 'Readjusters'-- more or less populists who favored a reduction in state indebtedness-- in their battles against the 'Stalwarts.' He signs this hard-hitting pamphlet in type on page 16, 'MAHONE.' Its dateline is Petersburg, 30 March 1887. Many bitter Virginians viewed him as a demagogue who had-- unfairly, in their eyes-- built his success on support from the newly-enfranchised Negro voters. Here he denounces the Democrats for their broken promise to repeal the Internal Revenue Taxes.
OCLC 8530750 [3- UNC, Lib. VA, VA Hist. Soc.] [as of 6/12]. Item #29025
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