As I have said, he was a thorough-going partisan Republican, and he preferred a straight-out Democrat to an independent-or Mugwump, as the independents have been styled since 1884, when they bolted Blaine.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
The rival machine got hold of him, the independents took him to their bosom, and the press shrieked for an investigation.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
310-314; return of independents from, vi.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green