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The year is 1884. The issue of personal integrity lies at the very heart of the presidential election. Some years earlier saw the release of letters showing that Republican candidate and former Speaker of the House James G. Blaine had sold his congressional influence for monetary gain in the past (a practice unthinkable in modern politics ), leading Democrats to chant "Burn, burn, burn this letter!" in a mockery of Blaine's (non-respected) closing request.
However, Republicans are soon to find a chant of their own, when it is revealed that Democratic candidate and governor of New York "Grover the Good" Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child whom, it was said, had been sent off to an orphanage after its mother had been admitted to an asylum. This revelation led to the GOP's joyously snarky chant " Ma, Ma, Where's my Pa? "
Unfortunately, that chant wasn't enough to secure the election, and Cleveland's followers in time were able to answer it with their own snark, "Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha.
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Some years earlier saw the release of letters showing that Republican candidate and former Speaker of the House James G. Blaine had sold his congressional influence for monetary gain in the past (a practice unthinkable in modern politics),
Grover Cleveland first became president in 1884, narrowly defeating Republican James G. Blaine of Maine. He lost his bid for reelection, but did return to the White House for a second term in 1893. And author Matthew Algeo says that's when Cleveland
in “The Presidencies of Grover Cleveland.†A seasoned candidate on the state level, Cleveland “realized that he was a poor stump speaker and he had no talent for extemporaneous address,†refusing to debate his opponent, James G. Blaine.
The anti-Catholic slur "rum, Romanism and rebellion" may have cost James G. Blaine the presidency in 1984; Al Smith was a victim of anti-Catholic bias in the 1928 presidential race and JFK finally overcame it in 1960. "Cain is taking arms against a
Cheney went personally to Speaker of the House James G. Blaine who then helped arrange a most peculiar purchase: the Navy ordered 10000 of Spencer's rifles and gave them to the Army! Enough of the rifles had arrived in time for them to help the Union
4th of July Quotes and Sayings: Words for an Inspirational ...
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. -J. Horace McFarland
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. -Erma Bombeck
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. -John Dickinson
May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! -Daniel Webster
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! -Oliver Wendell Holmes
From every mountainside Let Freedom ring. -Samuel F. Smith, "America"
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! -Thomas Jefferson
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. -Abraham Lincoln
It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. ... I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not. -John Adams
There, I guess King George will be able to read that.
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James G. Blaine, architect of empire
In James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire, author Edward P. Crapol assesses Blaine's role as an architect of empire and revisits the ambitious imperialistic goals ...James G. Blaine, a study of his life and career, from the standpoint of a personal witness of the principal events in his history
75 Mr. Blaine at Fifty, 83 James A. Garfield, 87 General John A. Logan, 105 Hon. William Walter Phelps, 123 The Blaine Residence, Augusta, Me . ...James G. Blaine, a sketch of his life, with a brief record of the life of John A. Logan
JAMES G. BLAINE, A Sketch of his Life. I. BOYHOOD. An event which occurred in the scanty village of West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, on the thirty-first day ...James G. Blaine, a political idol of other days
James G. Blaine, a political idol of other days
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James Gillespie Blaine (born Jan. 31, 1830, West Brownsville, Pa., U.S. — died Jan. 27, 1893, Washington, D.C.) U.S
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Who was James G. Blaine? ames G. Blaine had a long and varied career ... Blaine lost the nomination to Rutherford B. Hayes, on a narrow convention vote ...
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The American statesman James G. Blaine was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, on the 31st of January 1830, of sturdy Scottish-Irish stock ...
BLAINE, James Gillespie - Biographical Information
BLAINE, James Gillespie, a Representative and a Senator from Maine; born in West ... Dictionary of American Biography; Blaine, James G. Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln ...