Edited sentence: Although the term usage implies the faction was ideologically conservative, its usage is relative to the Radicals, as many members were considerably more liberal in voting record by party standards, and they supported the moderate Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 United States presidential election.The term "conservative" was adopted in an ad-hoc fashion according to a rudimentary definition of the word, as the term was not used to necessarily describe the faction's overall ideology but was used to particularly describe the faction's position regarding the specific slate of issues directly connected to the Civil War, race, and Reconstruction