A few treasurers defaulted, but in most cases their difficulties rose from financial incompetence rather than from dishonesty, for a good soldier did not necessarily make a good treasurer.

Few fortunes were founded on state contracts.

The public buildings erected were honestly built and were often completed within the limits of the original appropriations.
So small an amount was allowed that there would have been little to steal, even had the inclination been present.
The decline in the prices of agricultural products after 1875 made living harder.

The Greenback agitation[1] found some followers, and in a few scattered rural districts Greenbackers or Greenback Democrats were nominated.

In a few districts the white men ventured to run two tickets, and in a few cases the Greenback candidate won.