Why on earth would the 19th century GOP have any issue with industrialists and war profiteers?
Wasn't there a slightly socialist wing of the GOP after the civil war? I know it collapsed afterwards, but I recall this.
I mean, sher (an Einzige sock once linked to a few Wikipedia articles). To what extent they were the GOP mainstream, I could not tell you. In any case, I think it's obvious that Grant was not a socialist and we could largely call conservative. Garfield, however, is probably a more complicated case.