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If the Democrats should accept him they must accept this doctrine with him.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “If the Democrats should accept him they must accept this doctrine with him.”
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Blaine asserts that the acceptance of his political views by the Democrats would require them to also accept his doctrine of universal suffrage.
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