The Democratic party had its origin and its early growth in the cry against the overshadowing influence of the Presidential office --going so far in their denunciations as to declare that it was aping royalty in its manners and copying monarchy in its prerogatives.
Blaine discusses the origins of the Democratic party, emphasizing its initial opposition to the growing power of the presidency.
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