In 1876 Judge Hoar, who had been, very much against his will,
elected to Congress from the Middlesex District declined a
renomination. General Butler, who had been defeated at the
polls in the Essex District two years before was thereupon
nominated, having pledged himself to the Republicans that
he would abandon his fiat money doctrines in obedience to
the declared will of the people; a pledge which as stated
above he shamefully violated. There was no expectation of
defeating him. But some few Republicans who were unwilling
to support him desired a candidate on whom to unite, and they
applied to Judge Hoar. He said he had no desire to go to
Congress. But he thought there ought to be a Republican candidate
against Butler and that he had no right to ask another man
to take a position from which he flinched himself, and accordingly
he was nominated. But Butler was elected by a large majority.
That however was substantially the end of his relation with
the Republican Party. After the Inauguration of President
Hayes he tried to have the public officers in his District
who had refused to support him removed.
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