Mugwumps

Mugwumps - mŭgˈwŭmpsˌ, slang term in U.S. political history for the Republicans who in 1884 deserted their party nominee, James G. Blaine, to vote for the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland.

See L. W. Peterson, The Day of the Mugwump (1961).

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Mugwumps, Morals & Politics, 1884-1920
by Gerald W. McFarland. 292 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter 1 the Mugwump Image in History

Chapter 2 Two Gilded Age Portraits: Bolters & Blaine Men

Chapter 3 the Mugwump Ethic & the 1884 Election

Chapter 4 the Cleveland Coalition & After

Chapter 5 State & Municipal Mugwumpery

Chapter 6 the Mugwump Social Reformers

Chapter 7 Mugwumpery & Progressivism

Chapter 8 Mugwumps & National Politics After 1900

Conclusion

Appendix a Mugwumps & Republicans: a Composite Biography

Appendix B: Mugwumps & Progressives: a Socioeconomic Profile

Appendix C: Mugwumps Living in 1910: a Masterlist

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Rum, Romanism & Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884
by Mark Wahlgren Summers. 377 pgs.

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The presidential election of 1884, in which Grover Cleveland ended the Democrats' twenty-four-year presidential drought by defeating Republican challenger James G. Blaine, was one of the gaudiest in American history, remembered today less for its political significance than for the mudslinging and slander that characterized the campaign. But a closer look at the infamous election reveals far more complexity than previous stereotypes allowed, argues Mark Summers. Behind all the mud and malarkey, he says, lay a world of issues and consequences.
Summers suggests that both Democrats and Republicans sensed a political system breaking apart, or perhaps a new political order forming, as voters began to drift away from voting by party affiliation toward voting according to a candidate's stand on specific issues. Mudslinging, then, was done not for public entertainment but to tear away or confirm votes that seemed in doubt. Uncovering the issues that really powered the election and stripping away the myths that still surround it, Summers uses the election of 1884 to challenge many of our preconceptions about Gilded Age politics.

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Rum Romanism & Rebellion: The Making of a President 1884 Mark Wahlgren Summers

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Illustrations

Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue: Judgment Day

1: No Business To-Day Other Than Politics

2: The Dispirit of '76

3: The Bloody Shirt—in Hoc Signo Vinces

4: The Politics of Personality

5: O Temperance, O Mores!

6: The Protection Racket

7: The Democrats Rise from the Dead

8: The Passing of Arthur

9: We Love Him for the Enemies He Has Made

10: The Public Be Crammed!

11: Love's Libels Lost

12: Windypendents' Day

13: Ireland Sold for Gold!

14: Sideshows

15: Carrying the War into Africa

16: Local All Over

17: Clerical Errors

18: Lord! but We Skirted the Edge!

19: Justice at Last!

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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From Hayes to McKinley: National Party Politics, 1877-1896
by H. Wayne Morgan. 618 pgs.

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Prologue

Part One: 1877-1884

II: Presidential Sweepstakes: 1880-Style

III: Campaigns and Feuds: 1880-1881

IV: Arthur

V the Democracy Revives -- Barely

Part Two: 1885-1892

VI: Spoilsmen and Reformers: 1885-1887

VIII: The Billion-Dollar Congress: 1889-1891

IX: The Restless Farmers

Part Three: 1892-1896

X: "Grover, Grover, Four More Years"

XI: The Democracy's Fall: 1893-1894

XII: The Battle of the Standards

Conclusion

Key to Abbreviations

Bibliographical Note

Notes to Chapters

Index
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Bourbon Leader: Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party
by Oscar Handlin, Horace Samuel Merrill. 228 pgs.

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Editor's Preface

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I: The Young Lawyer

II: Rise to Power

III: The Governorship

IV: Presidential Candidate

Vi Reluctant Reformer

VII: Cautious Politician

VIII: Depression Legislation

IX: Defender of the Status Quo

A Note on the Sources

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Mudslingers: The Top 25 Negative Political Campaigns of All Time Countdown from No. 25 To No. 1 (Chap. 3 "Mud, Mugwumps, and Motherhood - Grover Cleveland V James G Blaine, President, 1884")
by Kerwin C. Swint. 260 pgs.

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Prologue

25: From Vietnam to Iraq - George W Bush V John Kerry, President, 2004

24: It's a Jungle out There - Upton Sinclair V Frank Merriam, Governor, California, 1934

23: Senator Pothole versus "Putzhead" - Alphonse D'Amato V Charles Schumer, U.S. Senate, New York, 1998

22: Electronic Mudslinging - Lyndon Johnson V Barry Goldwater, President, 1964

21: The Art of War - Jesse Helms V Harvey Gantt, U.S. Senate, North Carolina, 1990

20: Homo Sapiens, Thespians, and Extroverts - George Smathers V Claude Pepper, Democratic Primary, U.S. Senate, Florida, 1950

19: Vote for the Crook-it's Important - Edwin Edwards V David Duke, Governor, Louisiana, 1991

18: Who's the Boss? - Richard Daley and the Chicago Political Machine Richard Daley V Robert Merriam, Mayor, Chicago, 1955

17: Polluting the Garden State - Frank Lautenberg V Pete Dawkins, U.S. Senate, New Jersey, 1988

16: God Save the Republic, Please - Rutherford Hayes V Samuel Tilden, President, 1876

15: Rudy and the Jets - Rudolph Giuliani V David Dinkins, Mayor, New York City, 1993

14: A Jersey Street Fight - Robert Torricelli V Richard Zimmer, U.S. Senate, New Jersey, 1996

13: In This Corner, Little Lord Fauntleroy - John Tower V Robert Krueger, U.S. Senate, Texas, 1978

12: Sex, Lies, and Videotape - Charles Robb V Oliver North, U.S. Senate, Virginia, 1994

11: Claytie versus the Lady - Clayton Williams V Ann Richards, Governor, Texas, 1990

10: Richard Nixon versus the United States of America - Richard Nixon V George Mcgovern, President, 1972

9: "Bye-Bye Blackbird" - Harold Washington V Bernard Epton, Mayor, Chicago, 1983

8: America, Meet Willie Horton - George H W Bush V Michael Dukakis, President, 1988

7: Tricky Dick versus the Pink Lady - Richard Nixon V Helen Gahagan Douglas, U.S. Senate, California, 1950

6: Grantism and Mr Greeley - Ulysses S Grant V Horace Greeley, President, 1872

5: The First Campaign - Thomas Jefferson V John Adams, President, 1800

4: A House Divided - Abraham Lincoln V George Mcclellan, President, 1864

3: Mud, Mugwumps, and Motherhood - Grover Cleveland V James G Blaine, President, 1884

2: The Dirtiest Campaign in American History? - Andrew Jackson V John Quincy Adams, President, 1828

1: George Wallace and the "Negro Bloc Vote" - George Wallace V Albert Brewer, Democratic Primary, Governor, Alabama, 1970

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Farewell to the Bloody Shirt: Northern Republicans & the Southern Negro, 1877-1893
by Stanley P. Hirshson. 334 pgs.

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Introduction

Preface

I: A President, a Policy, and a Party

2: Disillusionment and Unity

3: Exodus

4: Garfield: the Search for a Southern Policy

5: Politics as Usual

6: Manufacturers, Mugwumps, and Merchants

7: Protection for the Negro or for Industry?

8: The End of a Dream

9: The Lines of Sectional Battle Are Drawn

10: Factions

II: The "Good Fellow" Business

12 1: The Party and the Negro

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Notes

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Structure, Process, and Party: Essays in American Political History (Chap. 4 "New Perspectives on Election Fraud in the Gilded Age" and Chap. 5 "From Party Tickets to Secret Ballots: The Evolution of the Electoral Process in Maryland during the Gilded Age")
by Peter H. Argersinger. 224 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes

1: American Electoral History: Party Systems and Voting Behavior

References

2: Electoral Processes in American Politics

Bibliography

3: The Value of the Vote: Political Representation in the Glided Age

Notes

4: New Perspectives on Election Fraud in the Gilded Age

Notes

5: From Party Tickets to Secret Ballots: The Evolution of the Electoral Process in Maryland During the Gilded Age

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6: A Place on the Ballot": Fusion Politics and Antifusion Laws"

Notes

7: Regulating Democracy: Election Laws and Dakota Politics, 1889-1902

Notes

8: Populists in Power: Public Policy and Legislative Behavior

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Third Parties in American Politics (Chap. 6 "The Mugwump Revolt")
by Howard P. Nash. 326 pgs.

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INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

CONTENTS

1: the Anti-Masonic And Know-Nothing Parties

2: the Liberty and Free-Soil Parties

3: the Rise of the Republican Party!

4: Trials and Tribulations of the G. O. P.

5: the Liberal Repljblican Party

6: the Mugwump Revolt

7: the Prohibition, Greenback-Labor, And Populist Parties

8: the "New Democracy"

9: Theodore Roosevelt and The Progressive Movement

10: the Bull Moose Party

11: Parties of the Left

REFERENCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Party Principles and Practical Politics (Chap. VII "War and Radical Republicanism" and Chap. VIII "Close Division and Confusion")
by Stuart Lewis. 523 pgs.

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Illustrations

Party Principles And Practical Politics

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Chapter II: Colonial and Revolutionary Parties

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Chapter III: The Party of the Constitution

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Chapter IV: Rule of the Federalists

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Chapter V: Democratic-Republican Control

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Chapter VI: Democrats and Whigs

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Chapter VII: War and Radical Republicanism

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Chapter VIII: Close Division and Confusion

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Chapter IX: Conservative Republicanism

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Chapter X: Wilson and Return to "Normalcy"

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Chapter XI: Parties of To-Day

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Chapter XII: Suffrage

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Chapter XIII: Convention and Caucus

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Chapter XIV: The Direct Primary

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Chapter XV: The National Convention

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Chapter XVI: Party Organization

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Chapter XVII: Campaign Methods

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Chapter XVIII: Party Finance

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Chapter XIX: Corrupt Practices

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Chapter XX: The Ballot

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Chapter XXI: Representation

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Chapter XXII: Patronage and Civil Service

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Chapter XXIII: Party Lines in Office

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Chapter XXIV: Initiative, Referendum, and Recall

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Chapter XXV: Political Activities of Individuals

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Appendices

Index
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American Political Cultures ("Mugwumps, Bosses, and Capitalists in the Gilded Age" begins on p. 110)
by Richard J. Ellis. 251 pgs.

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This work challenges the thesis first formulated by de Tocqueville and later systematically developed by Louis Hartz, that American political culture is characterized by a consensus on liberal capitalist values. Ranging over three hundred years of history and drawing upon the seminal work anthropologist Mary Douglas, Richard Ellis demonstrates that American history is best understood as a contest between five rival political cultures: egalitarian community, competitive individualism, hierarchical collectivism, atomized fatalism, and autonomous hermitude.

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American Political Cultures

Preface

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1: Individualism and Community in American Life

2: Radical Lockeanism

3: Rival Visions of Equality: Process Versus Results

4: Competing Conceptions of Democracy

5: An Anti-Authority Consensus?

6: Hierarchy in America

7: Fatalism in America: The Case of Slavery

8: A Life of Hermitude: Thoreau at Walden Pond

9: Culture, Context, and Consensus

Notes

Index
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Cavalier and Yankee: The Old South and American National Character ("Southern Mugwumps" begins on p. 55)
by William R. Taylor. 386 pgs.

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PROLOGUE: TWO ARISTOCRACIES: A DIALOGUE

PART ONE: BEGINNINGS

Chapter 1: Crisis in the Old Order

Chapter II: From Natural Aristocrat to Country Squire

Chapter III: Point Counterpoint: The Growth of the Southern Legend in the North

PART TWO: THE SUSTAINING ILLUSION

Chapter IV: Holding the Wolf by the Ears: The Plantation Setting and the Social Order

Chapter V: A Squire of Change Alley: The Plantation Legend and the Aristocratic Impulse

Chapter VI: The Promised Land

Chapter VII: A Northern Man of Southern Principles

Chapter VIII: Revolution in South Carolina

Chapter IX: Whistling in the Dark

Chapter X: The Rage for Order

EPILOGUE: AND THE WAR CAME

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