![]() What shall I do?” Dowden asked his foreman. “MyĬopy ends with ‘Grand Old Party,’ and I have two words left over after A last great hope - that the New England states would secede and form a Federalist nation - collapsed when Jefferson won a landslide reelection in 1804, thanks to the Louisiana Purchase. Nominee James Blaine shortly before press time that ran too long. Initials after receiving a story about 1884 Republican presidential Dowden, a Cincinnati Gazette typesetter, with coining the “Safire’s Political Dictionary” reports that the Republican’s GOPĪcronym began to appear in print in 1884. As to why the acronym stuck - Klein's article suggests that it was due to a typesetting issue: It seems, therefore, that rather than referring to the age of the party, it was originally a reference to the party's actions. This terminology was then used significantly in the press, and in debate, while the Civil War was still in the recent past - helping to cement it as specific to the Republican Party. ![]() This appears to then have been conflated with the 'Grand Old Party' moniker - papers from around the time use the term to refer to the party in the same context - referring to the party's work to preserve the Union in the Civil War. Has been set up by a clamor in this Chamber and a few newspapers in Seas before, is going to be stranded now upon the rock of fury that Party, that this gallant old ship that has sailed through troubled Is that true? Is it true that this gallant old We are told that she is sinking, sinking, sinking to the bottom That the angry waves of dissension in the land are lashing against her Sir, we have been told that this old craft is rapidly going to pieces Logan, as soldier and statesman, during a clash with former Confederate generals in the Senate, Logan used the phrase 'gallant' to characterise the actions of his party during the Civil War. ![]() According to a biography of Logan entitled Life and services of Gen. Logan, a Union general in the American Civil War, and later Republican Senator for Illinois. An example of this use was on the Senate floor in 1876 by John A. Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, talked about his advocacy of 'freedom conservatism,' which was. The original term which associated 'GOP' with the Republican Party appears to have actually been ' gallant old party'. Although, according to this article by Christopher Klein, the term 'grand old party' was used to refer to the Democratic party in 1859 by Democratic Governor Beriah Magoffin, and later, in 1860, by a Democratic newspaper, the 'GOP' acronym only appears to have been applied on a large scale to the Republican party. ![]()
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