The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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HARTFORD, Oct. 22, '84.  
MY DEAR MR. PIERCE,--You know, as well as I do, that the reason the  
majority of republicans are going to vote for Blaine is because they  
feel that they cannot help themselves. Do not you believe that if  
Mr. Edmunds would consent to run for President, on the Independent  
ticket--even at this late day--he might be elected?  
Well, if he wouldn't consent, but should even strenuously protest  
and say he wouldn't serve if elected, isn't it still wise and fair to  
nominate him and vote for him? since his protest would relieve him from  
all responsibility; and he couldn't surely find fault with people for  
forcing a compliment upon him. And do not you believe that his name thus  
compulsorily placed at the head of the Independent column would work  
absolutely certain defeat to Blain and save the country's honor?  
Politicians often carry a victory by springing some disgraceful and  
rascally mine under the feet of the adversary at the eleventh hour;  
would it not be wholesome to vary this thing for once and spring as  
formidable a mine of a better sort under the enemy's works?  
If Edmunds's name were put up, I would vote for him in the teeth of all  
the protesting and blaspheming he could do in a month; and there are  
lots of others who would do likewise.  
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