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Grover Cleveland on the other hand was a man of spotless public integrity
而民主黨的克里弗蘭則有著廉潔政治的好口碑
But his private life was by the standard of the time mar
但他的私生活卻成為當時人們的話柄
Because he was paying child support for a child born of a woman to whom he was not married
因為他在為一個孩子支付生活費，但卻沒和這個孩子的母親結婚
So at the time that was a big issue
這在當時可不得了
Democrats tended to call him Grover the good
民主黨人借此稱克里弗蘭是個好男人
and Republicans sometimes called him a beast from Buffalos, So you can get an idea of the intensity of the time
共和黨黨人則諷刺他是水牛城來的禽獸，可見當時的大選是多么熱火朝天
It was an interesting election, for one thing, there were a group of prominent Republicans who left the party
這屆大選很有看頭，一方面，一群共和黨人精英公然叛黨
This was the so-called Mugwumps that comes from an Algonquian Indian word
形成了穆格烏普派，這個詞來自阿爾岡琴族印第安人的語言
Which was regionally used as a pejorative, but it was adopted by the Mugwumps
是用于形容政治獨立者的貶義詞，穆格烏譜派卻采用了這個名字
Mark Twain was one of their leaders
馬克·吐溫是其中的領袖人物之一
Charls Francis Adams was one, There was a number of fairy prominent intellectual elite of the Republicans who, again were upset with the party
查爾斯·亞當斯也是，有相當一部分共和黨的高層精英再次因對黨失望而出走了
Blaine may had been a half-breed reformer, But
布萊恩雖然是“雜種”運動的領頭者，但
it wasn't clear that he was completely honest in his dealings with the railroads
并不意味著他在鐵路腐敗事件上完全清白
and the Mubwumps wanted above board alt, good government and get rid of any sort of tint of corruption
而穆格烏譜成員想要一次徹底的改革，建立清廉的政府剔除一切腐敗作風
