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Many sources published in the contemporary era tend to attribute the leader of the Half-Breeds to Blaine and sometimes even suggest that he himself was a supporter of civil service reform, which is misleading and erroneous. Per the writings of Professor Welch:<ref name=p.91/>

Many sources published in the contemporary era tend to attribute the leader of the Half-Breeds to Blaine and sometimes even suggest that he himself was a supporter of civil service reform, which is misleading and erroneous. Per the writings of Professor Welch:<ref name=p.91/>

{{cquote|By the middle of the Hayes’s administration certain politicians were already representative of the goals and prejudices of Half-Breed Republicanism. Not James G. Blaine—who at this point represented a particular wing of the Stalwarts and became a Half-Breed only with the campaign of 1880—but men like Hayes, Hoar, [[George Edmunds]], [[William Wheeler]], [[Stanley Matthews]], [[Henry Blair]], [[William Evarts]], [[George McCrary]], [[Henry Dawes]], and John Sherman.|||Welch, p. 91}}

{{cquote|By the middle of the Hayes’s administration certain politicians were already representative of the goals and prejudices of Half-Breed Republicanism. Not James G. Blaine—who at this point represented a particular wing of the Stalwarts and became a Half-Breed only with the campaign of 1880—but men like Hayes, Hoar, [[George Edmunds]], [[William Wheeler]], [[Stanley Matthews]], [[Henry Blair]], [[William Evarts]], [[George McCrary]], [[Henry Dawes]], and John Sherman.|||Welch, p. 91}}

==Timeline==

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