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Show The DEMOCiiATd believed tint tho Belknap exposure would enable them to c.irry Xew ILinipsbire. They were wroni;. It helped the republicans to 4,000 majority. The republicans thought the B-lkmp ra-sAlity would aid the Bristow n-publicans to beat Conkling. Wrong again. Tho bread and butler brigade carried everything betoro them. This looks either as if corruption in high pi ice3 waa not as unpopular as it might be, or as if the people have los' all faith in the promises of politicians. |