Presidential Election Ballot, Democratic Ticket

Democratic Ticket – Both political parties were divided during the presidential campaign of 1864; the Democrats into War and Peace Democrats and the Republicans into Radical and Conservative Republicans. Conservative Republicans dropped Hamilton of Maine as their candidate for vice president in favor of Johnson of Tennessee hoping to gain support in the border regions. Democrats nominated Gen. McClellan on a peace platform. Both parties were badly divided. As it turned out the political campaign was won on the battlefield. Rhode Island attempted to provide for soldiers in the field the ability to vote but a large number who voted were never qualified and others had not paid their registration tax were also not qualified. More than half of these votes were not counted. Lincoln defeated McClellan in Rhode Island and in the nation. 15.0 cm X 8.2 cm