MANTON MARBLE - AUTOGRAPH 08/01/1866 - HFSID 112399
Price: $180.00
MANTON MARBLE. Signature: "Aug 1 - 1866/Manton Marble",
4¼x5½. On sheet imprinted: "'The World' Office,/35 Park Row, New York."
Manton Marble (1834-1917) was a journalist in Boston and New York who was
chief editor of the "New York World" from 1862 until its sale in 1876. Supported
by wealthy Democrats, including August Belmont (then head of the Democratic
National Committee) and Samuel Tilden, the "World" supported the Party's
programs and candidates. Manton's paper supported the Union war effort but
opposed emancipation, and it endorsed Lincoln's opponent, George McClellan, in
the Presidential election of 1864, following Lincoln's sanctions against the
paper after it printed an erroneous report of a draft of 400,000 additional
soldiers in May 1864. Marble later lobbied the administration of President
Cleveland (1885-1889, 1893-1897) to abandon the gold standard in favor of
bimetallism, a policy rebuffed by Cleveland but embraced by the next Democratic
nominee, William Jennings Bryan. By that time, however, Marble head moved to
England and was no longer influential in American politics. Lightly creased with
fold, mid-horizontal fold at signature. Mounting remnants and stains on verso of
blank integral leaf show through at corners and blank left and right margins.
Overall, fair condition.
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