Party Patronage: Stalwarts, Half breeds, Mugwumps (1 juin 1881 – 1 juin 1901)

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The main motive of parties soon became winning elections, holding office, and giving government jobs to those faithful to the party. Republican senator Roscoe Conkling dictated who would be given lucrative jobs in the New York custom cells, becoming a powerful leader in the party. His supporters were known as Stalwarts, with his opponents led by James G. Blaine known as Half breeds. those in the Republican Party who did not play the Patriots game were ridiculed and called Mugwumps with their mugs on one side of the fence they sat on and their wumps on the other. this. Was known as a low point in American politics.

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