Locofoco

"What kind of Locofoco's that, as wears the painter's skin?"

The Bon Gaultier Ballads Theodore Martin 1862

But now, should you go thither to seek him, you would inquire in vain for the Locofoco

The Scarlet Letter 2002

The driver was a stubborn Locofoco, and Benson did not disdain to enter into an elaborate argument with him.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

Peradventure he may vote the 'Locofoco ticket' in the hope of propitiating _the boys_ (as the _canaille_ of American cities are properly called), and saving his printing-office from the fate of the

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 Various

But now, should you go thither to seek him, you would inquire in vain for the Locofoco Surveyor.

The Custom-House. Introductory to “The Scarlet Letter” 1917

In one of the last entries of the Diary, a few months before Hone's death, allusion is made to a personal attack on the editor by the defeated candidate of the Locofoco party for the District-Attorneyship.

Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

Locofoco movement yesterday, in which the Whigs were so chawed up; and the last Alabama gouging case; and the interesting Arizona dooel with bowie knives; and all the political, commercial, and fashionable news.

Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

They were the young men with initiative, with discontent; the New York element especially was affected by the radicalism of Locofoco democracy which was in itself a protest against the established order.

The Frontier in American History Frederick Jackson Turner 1896

Democrat (and you know very well how he has always been a Democrat, not a Locofoco -- if that means a lucifer match).

Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

The Whigs under McClure, had a ticket in the field, but that was not of much account, the Locofoco ticket was elected from top to bottom, by less than 100 majority.

Franklin County: [Anonymous] to Edward McPherson, October 16, 1860 [Anonymous] 1860