Logan Republican | 1911-04-04 | Page 4 | Origin of Mugwump |

Type	issue
Date	1911-04-04
Paper	Logan Republican
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Article Title	Origin of Mugwump
Type	article
Date	1911-04-04
Paper	Logan Republican
Page	4
OCR Text	Show Origin of Mugwump. The word mugwump Is derived from the Indian tongue. The Algonquin tribe had n word "mugquoinp," which ' meant "chief" or "grcnt man," and It was from this that we got our mug- fl wump. The term wns originally up- piled to an) voter who wis nominally Identified with a particular party, but Insisted on the right to vote with another an-other party f ho saw fit to do so. Generations tgo It passed Into the local phrnseology of sorao of the New England Eng-land villages, being applied there in its original (Indian) significance to any village magnate.
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