Grant was unanimously re-nominated at the 1872 Republican National Convention , but his intra-party opponents organized the Liberal Republican Party and held their own convention . The 1872 Liberal Republican convention nominated Greeley , a New York newspaper publisher , and wrote a platform calling for civil service reform and an end to Reconstruction . Democratic Party leaders believed that their only hope of defeating Grant was to unite around Greeley , and the 1872 Democratic National Convention nominated the Liberal Republican ticket
1872 Democratic National Convention
1872 Democratic National Convention
1872 United States presidential election