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===Stalwart faction===

===Stalwart faction===

According to former U.S. senator [[Thomas C. Platt]] in his 1910 published autobiography, Flanagan was a [[Stalwart Republican]] delegate among the "Old Guard" 306 who supported the nomination of [[Ulysses S. Grant]] to a nonconsecutive third term in the [[United States presidential election, 1880|1880 U.S. presidential election]].<ref>Platt, Thomas C. (1910). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Autobiography_of_Thomas_Collier_Plat/6a1YAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=powell%20clayton The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt], p. 122. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref> During the Republican National Convention that year, when a [[Massachusetts]] delegate advocated a plank in support of "thorough, radical, and complete" civil service reform, Flanagan famously declared:<ref name=ncsl1924>National Civil Service League (1924). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Good_Government/dqMfPlqGoa8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=webster+flanagan+stalwart&pg=PA103&printsec=frontcover Good Government: Volume 41], p. 103–04. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref><ref>Reeves, Thomas C. (1975). [https://archive.org/details/gentlemanbosslif00reev/page/n195/mode/2up?view=theater Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur], p. 173. ''Internet Archive''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref><ref>Peskin, Allan (1984). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2150708 Who Were the Stalwarts? Who Were Their Rivals? Republican Factions in the Gilded Age], p. 709. ''JSTOR''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref>

According to former U.S. senator [[Thomas C. Platt]] in his 1910 published autobiography, Flanagan was a [[Stalwart Republican]] delegate among the "Old Guard" 306 who supported the nomination of [[Ulysses S. Grant]] to a nonconsecutive third term in the [[United States presidential election, 1880|1880 U.S. presidential election]].<ref>Platt, Thomas C. (1910). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Autobiography_of_Thomas_Collier_Plat/6a1YAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=powell%20clayton The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt], p. 122. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref> During the Republican National Convention that year, when a [[Massachusetts]] delegate advocated a plank in support of "thorough, radical, and complete" civil service reform, Flanagan famously declared:<ref name=ncsl1924>National Civil Service League (1924). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Good_Government/dqMfPlqGoa8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=webster+flanagan+stalwart&pg=PA103&printsec=frontcover Good Government: Volume 41], p. 103–04. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref><ref>Reeves, Thomas C. (1975). [https://archive.org/details/gentlemanbosslif00reev/page/n195/mode/2up?view=theater Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur], p. 173. ''Internet Archive''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref><ref>Peskin, Allan (1984). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2150708 Who Were the Stalwarts? Who Were Their Rivals? Republican Factions in the Gilded Age], p. 709. ''JSTOR''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref>

{{cquote|Texas has had quite enough of civil service reform under the present Administration. Out of 1,340-odd Federal positions, only about 140 are held down by Republicans. We will nominate and elect a Stalwart Republican, who, when elected, will give the hewers of wood and drawers of water the rations they are entitled to...

{{cquote|Texas has had quite enough of civil service reform under the present Administration. Out of 1,340-odd Federal positions, only about 140 are held down by Republicans. We will nominate and elect a Stalwart Republican, who, when elected, will give the hewers of wood and drawers of water the rations they are entitled to...