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 | The Republican Party was born in the early 1850's by anti-slavery activists and individuals who believed that government should grant western lands to settlers free of charge. |
| In 1856, the Republicans became a national party when John C. Fremont was nominated for President under the slogan: "Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men, Fremont." Even though they were considered a "third party" because the Democrats and Whigs represented the two-party system at the time, Fremont received 33% of the vote. |
| The symbol of the Republican Party is the elephant. |
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Republican party. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (2419 words) |
| The party opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the extension of slavery, denounced the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott Case, and favored the admission of Kansas as a free state. |
| When, in 1896, the Democratic party was captured by the radicals under William Jennings Bryan, its presidential candidate in 1896, 1900, and 1908, the Republican party became openly the champion of the gold standard and conservative economic doctrines. |
| The Republican victory with Herbert C. Hoover in 1928 marked the first time since the end of Reconstruction that the party had carried states of the old Confederacy; this came about chiefly because the Democratic candidate, Alfred E. Smith, was a Roman Catholic and an opponent of prohibition. |
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