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Neither Hayes nor Tilden were very exciting presidential candidates. According to Vaughan, one newspaper referred to Hayes as "the short man in the rumpled suit and with a rat's nest beard" 56). Tilden was a rather dry, sometimes dyspeptic figure. Hayes had been a criminal lawyer, a state legal official in Ohio, was wounded five times and had a distinguished record in the Union Army during the Civil War, had served one term in the House and two terms as Ohio' Governor. He was nominated on the seventh ballot at the Republican Convention as a compromise candidate who avoided offending all important factions of the GOP. Tilden had become wealthy during the war as a lawyer. He was best known for his successful efforts to clean out the corrupt Boss William Tweed ring in New York City. Vaughan said that during the campaign, both candidates expressed "similar attitudes" (55). Both men, for example, favored governmental reform and clean government. The Republicans as they had since the early 1860s 'wave
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