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But he knew what the farmer and the mechanic and the workman at his bench were thinking of, and addressed himself always to their best and highest thought.
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Hoar praises a leader's ability to connect with the everyday thoughts of common people.
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He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
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