They, therefore, demanded that the Republican Party should plant itself squarely on the gold standard; should announce its purpose to make gold the exclusive legal tender for the country, and appeal to the people for support in the Presidential election, standing on that ground.
Hoar discusses the Republican Party's stance on the gold standard during a pivotal election period.
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Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
He would undoubtedly have taken a very high place in the public and official life of his generation if he had found himself in accord with either of the great political parties.
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.
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.
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