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Half-Breed Republicans (view source)
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Logan's presence on the party ticket helped draw enthusiastic support from blacks due to his record of staunchly advocating for civil rights.<ref name=johnloganbiop.187-88>''John A. Logan: Stalwart Republican from Illinois'', p. 187–88.</ref> This included the backing of abolitionist and renowned black leader [[Frederick Douglass]]. Most Half-Breeds were skeptical of Logan, though supported the ticket out of party unity; this included Rutherford Hayes, who called the nomination a "blunder and misfortune" though viewed a Democrat victory as a "serious calamity."<ref name=johnloganbiop.187-88/> Half-Breed John Sherman expressed similar sentiment, calling Logan "coarse, suspicious, revengeful" yet voicing support for the GOP ticket.
Logan's presence on the party ticket helped draw enthusiastic support from blacks due to his record of staunchly advocating for civil rights.<ref name=johnloganbiop.187-88>''John A. Logan: Stalwart Republican from Illinois'', p. 187–88.</ref> This included the backing of abolitionist and renowned black leader [[Frederick Douglass]]. Most Half-Breeds were skeptical of Logan, though supported the ticket out of party unity; this included Rutherford Hayes, who called the nomination a "blunder and misfortune" though viewed a Democrat victory as a "serious calamity."<ref name=johnloganbiop.187-88/> Half-Breed John Sherman expressed similar sentiment, calling Logan "coarse, suspicious, revengeful" yet voicing support for the GOP ticket.
==Legacy==
Although not all Half-Breeds disregarded the plight of blacks terrorized by Jim Crow Democrats in the South, their push for civil service reform only perpetuated racial discrimination by the Democratic Party and resulted in the enactment of a bloated bureaucracy that evolved into what is now known as the [[Deep State]]. As a bloc, they in effect did less in comparison to their conservative Stalwart colleagues to fight on behalf of blacks, promoting their causes under the guise of "integrity" and "reform" which harmed the nation in the long-run.
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