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In adopting him as a candidate for reëlection we undertake to vindicate his Presidency, and adopt in all things the insulting, incapable, aide-de-campish dictatorship which he has inaugurated.
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Sumner critiques the decision to support the President's re-election, viewing it as an endorsement of his dictatorial style.
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