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The Democratic party of Ohio, both in its platform and by its candidates, supports more or less all of these dogmas; but it does so not as a matter of principle, but for political power.
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Sherman accuses the Democratic party of Ohio of supporting certain economic policies not out of principle, but for political gain.
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