The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)

by Richard White

Blaine, for all his cultivation of the Irish, suffered a fit of inattention when, at a meeting with Protestant clergy, he let pass a denunciation of the Democrats as the party of “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.” The Democrats seized on it.