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It involves the history of a general who never retraced his steps, who cared neither for mugwump murmurs nor political cabals, who took both blame and praise with equanimity. Through month after month of discouragement, and work gone for naught, and fever and death, his eyes never left his goal.
Some are born to prose and some to higher things. She applied herself to a plain statement in Hattie's album: Dear Hattie: I am a Mugwump and your true friend. Emily Louise Maclauren. Then she put the book on Hattie's desk as the bell rang. With the class came a visible and audible excitement. Mr. With visual signalling and labial dumb show, Emily Louise implored enlightenment.
Mullins said there was no doubt of it, and the Dean enquired if the presence of mugwumps was fatal in matters of endeavour, and Mullins said that it was. Then the rector asked if even one mugwump was, in the Christian sense, deleterious. Mullins said that one mugwump would kill anything. After that the Dean hardly spoke at all.
Had Wagner been the mere musical epicure and political mugwump that the term "artist" seems to suggest to so many critics and amateurs that is, a creature in their own lazy likeness he need have taken no more part in the political struggles of his day than Bishop took in the English Reform agitation of 1832, or Sterndale Bennett in the Chartist or Free Trade movements.
Mark Twain had been a "mugwump" during the Blame-Cleveland campaign in 1880, which means that he had supported the independent Democratic candidate, Grover Cleveland. He was, therefore, in high favor at the White House during both Cleveland administrations, and called there informally whenever business took him to Washington.
And this is what the Republican press and its mugwump echo call prosperity! The wheat-growers, numerically unimportant, are prospering despite the gold standard, just as the placer-miner who washes out ten dollars each day and gives up five of it nightly to cut-throat gamblers; but in this prosperity the great body of the American people have neither lot nor part.
They organized the Mugwump party the epithet was flung at them with no friendly intent by Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun, but they made of it an honorable title under the leadership of George William Curtis and Carl Schurz. Their announced purpose was to defeat the Republicans, from whose ranks they had seceded, and in this attempt they were successful.
At twelve a pucker of absorption and concentration begins to gather between the brows. On the homeward way, William was waiting at the corner. "What is a person when they are not either Democrat or Republican?" Emily Louise asked as they went along. William's tones were uncompromising. "A mugwump," he said, and he said it with contempt.
Influence, Susan, is not mere influence ever. It's power! You've got that!" "When did you become such an ardent suffragist, John?" Susan suddenly demanded. The Judge laughed. "I've been a kind of mugwump of the cause for years. If I were younger, I doubt if I should be ardently in favour of it now.
They thought this would offset the charges made by the 'mugwump' committee. I did not believe that any such recognition was necessary. However, their demands for my return and to meet this body became so importunate that I yielded my own judgment. "I was engaged in my room with the committee and other visitors when I was summoned to the lobby of the hotel to meet the clergymen.
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