The year the Grand Old Party nominated James Gillespie Blaine for the Presidency (1884), a young printer by the name of T. B. Dowden turned up in the shop of the Cincinnati Gazette looking for work. The Gazette took him on and one morning at 2:30 o'clock, just before the Gazette went to press, Printer Dowden took from the news hook a piece of copy marked: "Must go in ten lines." Setting ten lines solid, he frantically tinkered the spacing, then appealed to the foreman: "My copy ends with Grand Old Party and I have two words left over. What...
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