The forgery was issued in the closing days of the canvass, when there was not time to expose it.

Arrangements had been made for a wide distribution of facsimiles which exerted a strong influence.

Hancock won five out of the six electoral votes of California and came near getting the three votes of Oregon also.

In the popular vote of the whole country, Garfield had a plurality of less than ten thousand in a total vote of over nine million.
The peculiarities of the party system which has been developed in American politics, forces upon the President the occupation of employment agent as one of his principal engagements.

The contention over official patronage, always strong and ardent upon the accession of every new President, was aggravated in Garfield's case by the factional war of which his own nomination was a phase.