The Democratic party thus determined, through its platform and partially through its candidates, to fight its battle on the two issues of paying the debt in depreciated paper currency and overthrowing Reconstruction.
Blaine outlines the Democratic party's strategy to focus on economic issues and Reconstruction in their political platform.
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