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Several eminent Republicans, both in the Senate and in the House, as well as many others in private station, left the Republican Party on that issue.
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Hoar notes that several prominent Republicans left the party due to issues surrounding silver legislation.
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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 has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
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