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The vital question with them, as with the other side, was really one of the spoils of office; and neither the qualities nor the career of the heroic soldier whom they had for effect nominated, were such as to create much polit- ical force in the campaign. The " workers " every- where exhibited apathy — Hancock was not of their kind. Some blunderhead, distorting a remark which the good general had made in a friendly talk about the tariff, brought a little ridicule upon his candida- ture ; but th...is, in fact, counted for nothing in the result. Garfield, with the prestige of five successive Republican victories and with the vast patronage of the general government behind him, carried the election by a small popular majority — a few thou- sands only — and by a majority of fifty-nine votes in the electoral college. His defeat Hancock bore with perfect dignity 3o8 GENERAL HANCOCK. and unimpaired good nature. On the night of the election he went to bed without waiting for a single return, and first learned the news in the morning.
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