{"id":27970,"count":2,"description":"The \"Stalwarts\" were a faction of the United States Republican Party toward the end of the 19th century.\nNotable Stalwarts include Roscoe Conkling and Thomas C. Platt, who were in favor of Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth President of the United States (1869\u20131877), running for a third term. They were the \"traditional\" Republicans who opposed Rutherford B. Hayes' civil service reform. They were pitted against the \"Half-Breeds\" (moderates) for control of the Republican Party. The only real issue between Stalwarts and Half-Breeds was patronage. The Half-Breeds worked to get civil service reform, and finally created the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. Stalwarts also favored traditional machine politics.\nDuring the Republican national convention in 1880, the Half-Breeds advocated the candidacy of James Blaine of Maine for President. A stalemate ensued between Half-breeds and Stalwarts, and a compromise was struck to nominate a decent, unabrasive man: James Garfield. Additionally,...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/stalwart\/","name":"Stalwart","slug":"stalwart","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/27970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=27970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}