There weren't many candidates fitting that description.
Us sheriff candidates have to practice.
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Though votes were often cast for ten names, there were but two real candidates before the convention, Grant and Blaine.
By the majority of Republicans, at least, he was considered to have cleared himself completely, and in the Republican national convention he missed by only twenty-eight votes the nomination for president, being finally beaten by a combination of the supporters of all the other candidates.