Item #31794 SPEECH OF HON. COLUMBUS DELANO, DELIVERED AT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, JULY 24, 1872. Columbus Delano.

SPEECH OF HON. COLUMBUS DELANO, DELIVERED AT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, JULY 24, 1872.

[np: 1872]. 8pp, caption title [as issued], disbound. Good+.

Delano, an Ohio-born Republican functionary, was Grant's Secretary of the Interior at the time of this speech. "During his five-year tenure serious charges of frauds in the Bureau of Indian Affairs came to a head" [DAB].
Delano attacks "the specious cry of 'reform'-- the last resort of discarded demagogues." He rebukes Grant's rivals for re-election: the Liberal Republicans, led by Horace Greeley; and "Free-trade Democrats." Delano recounts the Republican Party's triumphs during the preceding 12 years, defends the Administration's 'Indian Policy,' denounces the Ku Klux Klan, and pronounces the "death of the Democratic Party."
Not in Thornton, Sabin, Thomson, Eberstadt, Decker. Item #31794

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