For the first time in our land the power of song was invoked to aid a Presidential candidate, and immense editions of log cabin song-books were sold.
While this was the avowed object of the demonstration, there was a suspicion that it had a political design and that its real purpose was to present General Grant as a Presidential candidate.
The second compromise had passed out of general recollection before Mr. Clay's death, though it had made him a Presidential candidate at forty-three years of age.
New York had hopelessly revolted from Democratic control, and Mr. Marcy's name was not presented as a Presidential candidate, though he was at that time the ablest statesman of the Democratic party.
He was still a young man when he was preferred to all the prominent statesmen of his party as a Presidential candidate.
This of course Douglas had expected, and in this lay his personal gain as a Presidential candidate.
Of a like temper was John Bell of Tennessee, Presidential candidate of the Union and Constitutional party in 1860.
The idea of making Lincoln a Presidential candidate seems to have occurred to a great many people at about the same time, and shortly after his inauguration a regiment might have been organized of the friends who first named him.
Hence his letter of acceptance was the briefest ever written by a Presidential candidate.
Every line of her, every movement, every look, was woman.
The attempt to suppress Jackson broke down thus upon all sides, and he emerged from the assaults of his rivals with a greater popularity than he had ever before enjoyed, and with improved prospects as a presidential candidate.
It was indeed against the logic of the situation that a Democratic Convention could at that time select a distinguished Union general, of conservative record and cautious mind, for a Presidential candidate.
When he left the fields of labor in which he had become illustrious, to pass the ordeal of a Presidential candidate, the opposite and weaker sides of his character and career were brought into view.
General Blair's name had been mentioned as a Presidential candidate, and in this letter he defined his position.
Even in this new party, availability dictated the choice of a presidential candidate.
Douglas remarked sarcastically that Southern gentlemen had effected just what the Senator from New Hampshire, as presidential candidate of the Abolitionists, had desired: they had unquestionably doubled his vote in the free States.
Mr. Cass had held many offices of distinction, had attained high rank as a Democratic leader, and had once been a Presidential candidate.
Douglas had a majority vote as presidential candidate, but not two-thirds.
In that act it showed preference, on the score of availability, for a small man as presidential candidate.
Taylor was a Whig, and the Whigs whispered that his martial deeds were making the democratic cabinet dread him as a presidential candidate.
From Cincinnati, we turn down through a mountain section of Kentucky which has never seen a President, an ex-President or a Presidential candidate.
A tidal wave of popularity rose in his favor, and soon Thurlow Weed of New York, the Warwick of the Whig party, came out for him as Presidential candidate.
He alleged that Scott had "wormed himself" into the command by promising to kill Taylor off as a Presidential candidate.
English, of Indiana, who was known to have money, and was believed to be ready to use it in the campaign, was the vice-presidential candidate.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presidential candidate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
