CSPAN3 Maines Governors Mansion August 3, 2016
Logan was very well known the veterans vote was a very powerful force in the postcivil war period in america. Blaine because he was very much involved in an emerging political career when the civil war broke out he was speaker of the house in maine, the maine house of representatives and he was about to run for congress so he did what many men did at the time and he actually bought a substitute. It cost about 300 to have someone else go in your said the. Cleveland had done the same thing so it was a very interesting situation that prior to the 1884 campaign you always had someone in office in ...