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title: Our nation's choice, Benjamin Harrison, Levi P. Morton
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/our-nations-choice-harrison-morton-1888/
description: Broadside with oval portraits of Harrison and Morton framed by allegorical women, biographies in side columns, the Republican platform adopted at…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** 1888 Republican poster carrying the slogan 'foreign pauper labor'. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Our nation's choice, Benjamin Harrison, Levi P. Morton](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/our-nations-choice-harrison-morton-1888.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/our-nations-choice-harrison-morton-1888.jpg)

# Our nation's choice, Benjamin Harrison, Levi P. Morton

Broadside with oval portraits of Harrison and Morton framed by allegorical women, biographies in side columns, the Republican platform adopted at Chicago, and figures of Lincoln and Grant with printed mottoes. The Lincoln and Grant figures and the "Loyalty to the Union" badge borrow their prestige for the ticket (transfer), the quoted mottoes put words to named men (testimonial), and the heading "No competition with foreign pauper labor" attaches a label to foreign workers (name-calling).

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
OUR NATION'S CHOICE. / THE REPUBLICAN BANDANNA: "OUR GLORIOUS STARS AND STRIPES." / NO FREE TRADE! NO COMPETITION WITH FOREIGN PAUPER LABOR. / NUMBER OF ELECTORAL VOTES OF EACH STATE [table] / BENJAMIN HARRISON, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. / LEVI P. MORTON, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. / THE PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, Adopted at the Convention in Chicago, June 21st, 1888. / LOYALTY TO THE UNION / Liberty and the Union--One and Inseparable. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. / Protection for American Industries. U. S. GRANT. / Copyright 1888 by Charles Lubrecht. PUBLISHED BY CHARLES LUBRECHT, 193 PEARL ST. NEW YORK. AGENTS WANTED.
```

The biographies and the platform text in the columns are not transcribed here; only the display lettering is.

[← Great Republican Harrison and Morton campaign ball, 1888](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/harrison-morton-campaign-ball-1888/) [Public office is a public trust: Democratic campaign banner no. 1 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/public-office-is-a-public-trust-banner-1888/)

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