On the record
If elected I shall at the close of the term lay down the honors of the office with the same cheerfulness with which I now accept the nomination.
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Hoar commits to serving honorably and willingly relinquishing office if elected.
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Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
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