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The country cannot afford to have the result tainted by the suspicion of illegal or false returns.
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Blaine warns against the dangers of electoral results being undermined by allegations of fraud or illegality.
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The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
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That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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