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If the restoration of Arthur is insisted upon, the whole liberal element will be against us and it will lose us tens of thousands of votes without doing a particle of good.
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Sherman warns that insisting on a certain political restoration could lead to significant electoral losses.
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Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
This power in the hands of a few is at this moment the disturbing element in many of our great industries.
Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
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