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I think it would have been easy to make him the Republican candidate, and to elect him to the Presidency in 1888, if he had been willing to take that position himself.
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Hoar reflects on the potential political career of a prominent figure in the Republican Party.
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He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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