To his mind the entire Mugwump movement revolved around Grover Cleveland and opposition to the election of Mr. Blaine.
It pleased him to represent the Mugwump party of Chicago as consisting of General McClurg, John W.
Field was very fond of describing himself as a martyr to the Mugwump vapors and megrims that prevailed in the editorial rooms of the Daily News.
General McClurg: "Do you declare your unalterable belief in the Mugwumpdoctrine of free-will and election?
Field announced that he preferred to be enrolled as a Democrat, and to accept his share in all the obloquy which he laid at the Democratic door rather than affiliate with the Mugwump bolters.
The former was not only the idol, but the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the decalogue to many of Field's Mugwump friends whom he cherished personally, but detested and lampooned politically.
General McClurg: "The Mugwump doctrine of free-will argues that every voter may vote as he chooses, irrespective of party, so long as his vote involves the election of Grover Cleveland.
Mr. Head: "I am a Mugwump to the extent of voting as I choose, and irrespective of party, but I draw the line at Grover Cleveland this time.
Susy's discovery that the secret of her biography was known is shown by the next entry, and the touch of severity in it was probably not entirely unconscious: Papa said the other day, "I am a mugwump and a mugwump is pure from the marrow out.
But--the Mugwump can stand it, for there is a great history at his back; stretching down the centuries, and he comes of a mighty ancestry.
At this moment the Gutter Pup rushed in like a white fuzzy dog, his eyes bulging with importance as he delivered the bombshell, that Crazy Opdyke had organised a Mugwump party and carried the Cleve House for it.
And this is what the Republican press and itsmugwump echo call prosperity!
Papa said the other day, "I am a mugwump and a mugwump is pure from the marrow out.
Such being my situation, I was puzzled to know how to try to help Mason, and, at the same time, save my mugwump purity undefiled.
I wrote the little child, and said to her all that I have just been saying about mugwump principles and the limitations which they put upon me.
My Sicilian has just limped up the hill with a story of how, in the last race, the Republican and the Mugwump ran into one another and capsized, while the Democrat finished bravely.
I must say, old chap, that I like the mugwump less and less the more I see of him.
And, doubtless, since such ismugwump thickness, he'll be renominated.
I locked up my tongue; it was a best method to augment a mugwumphorror which I meant should find my resources.
On the heels of the conventions, the mugwump leaders and I met and merged our tickets, I getting two-thirds and surrendering one-third of those names which followed that of the reputable old gentleman for the divers offices to be filled.
Now in the finish of it, I discovered one of a gallant fidelity, and who was brave above mugwump threat.
Mugwump scorned the Democrat's wail, And flirting its false fantastic tail, It spread its wings and it soared away, And left the Democrat in dismay, Too hoo!
The displacement of so many officials gave the Republicans an opportunity to attempt to discredit the President in the eyes of his mugwump supporters.
They organized the Mugwump party--the epithet was flung at them with no friendly intent by Charles A.
I took the best mugwump stand: my own conscience, my own judgment, were to decide in all things.
Carlyle--not Mugwump Carlisle of Kentucky, but Thos.
Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.
A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.
The Princes kept nodding to one another, and the Grand Chew Chew and General Mugwump had their heads together at every opportunity.
The Grand Chew Chew and General Mugwump followed, attired in brilliant silk robes of state.
To satisfy an old Democrat and a new mugwump is a difficult job.
Once, as he passed out from the doors of the Greater Testimony, the rector heard some one say: "The Church would be all right if that old mugwump was out of the pulpit.
Then the rector asked if even one mugwump was, in the Christian sense, deleterious.
