On the record
Those elections were protests against an attempt to depart from the old-fashioned method of ascertaining the will of the people in selecting Republican candidates.
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Hoar describes elections in Massachusetts as a response to changes in how candidates were selected.
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But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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