Opinion of Samuel Tilden

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

FF!

[H. Ross Peron]

One of the better Democrats of the era.

[SWE]

One of the better Democrats of the era.

[Deus Naturae]

FF

[Goldwater]

FF

[MATTROSE94]

I like Samuel Tilden and probably would have voted for him in 1876.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

HP.

[Antonio the Sixth]

One of the better Democrats of the era.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Er... you are all aware that the man thought that the working class shouldn't be allowed to vote?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Awful.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Er... you are all aware that the man thought that the working class shouldn't be allowed to vote?

Ugh really? I had no idea. Guess these threads serve some purpose after all.

[Mechaman]

Er... you are all aware that the man thought that the working class shouldn't be allowed to vote?

Ugh really? I had no idea. Guess these threads serve some purpose after all.

No surprise really.

While the Democrats were known derisively by many as the party of the white n*****, the "reformist" establishment went out of their way as much as possible to avoid being associated with the dirty Hibernian immigrant class that had become affiliated with urban and labor and machine politics.  "Reform" was just a convenient PC term brought up by upper crust businessmen to avoid association with the perceived radical immigrant class that was, as you would expect in a strongly English Protestant society, perceived as socialist radicals and violent revolutionaries.

"Bourbon Democrats" were basically pro-free trade pro-Jim Crow Republicans.  Now, they were certainly friendlier to the poor and huddled masses than the Bryanites and other protestant populist groups were, but it wasn't until about the 1920s or so when the working class actually had authority in the Democratic leadership.  Hell even as late as 1928, Al Smith was considered to be an advocate of "state socialism" by the Hoover campaign.  Being the party of the lower class wasn't exactly cool until 1932, when a lot more people were lower class.  Thanks Capitalism!