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I will support the nomination of Blaine and Logan as heartily as I have done those of Fremont and Lincoln and Grant and Hayes and Garfield.
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Sherman pledges his enthusiastic support for the nominations of Blaine and Logan, drawing parallels to past Republican leaders.
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