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In early April of 1880, Sen. Hoar instructed political followers of Half-Breeds that the state needed to send men to the party convention with "no labels about their necks" while also sending at-large delegates to be labeled conspicuously as supporters of Edmunds.<ref name=halfbreedrepublicans/> The Massachusetts state convention later that month endorsed Edmunds for president. Edmunds ultimately was unable to garner enough votes to be nominated, though the Half-Breeds managed to block Grant from being selected.<ref name=halfbreedrepublicans/> A last-minute maneuvering involving supporters of Edmunds and Blaine led to the nomination of [[James A. Garfield]], who went on to win the general election.
In early April of 1880, Sen. Hoar instructed political followers of Half-Breeds that the state needed to send men to the party convention with "no labels about their necks" while also sending at-large delegates to be labeled conspicuously as supporters of Edmunds.<ref name=halfbreedrepublicans/> The Massachusetts state convention later that month endorsed Edmunds for president. Edmunds ultimately was unable to garner enough votes to be nominated, though the Half-Breeds managed to block Grant from being selected.<ref name=halfbreedrepublicans/> A last-minute maneuvering involving supporters of Edmunds and Blaine led to the nomination of [[James A. Garfield]], who went on to win the general election.
==Death and legacy==
Long died on August 28, 1915 at the age of seventy-six. Governor McCall stated at a eulogy the following year:<ref>May 27, 1916. [https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=BOSTONSH19160527-01.2.12&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Honor the Memory of John D. Long.] ''Boston College Libraries''. Retrieved December 22, 2021.</ref>
{{cquote|The Commonwealth will treasure his memory. This House will perpetuate him as one of her brightest traditions. His influence was good upon his time and the remembrance of him will be wholesome upon the future. His qualities were so well balanced, the direction he received from nature was so strongly towards the true path, it seemed harder for him to err than to do right. The element of fierce struggle within himself seemed to be lacking. We do not see in him that engrossing drama played in the lives of so many men who have borne a great part in the history of the world, of men who fall and then rise, who are swept from the right way and fight their way back to it again. But he had that happier inheritance that permitted him always to move forward and upward and that steadily made his life a sane and sweet influence upon his fellowmen.|||McCall, May 1916}}
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