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No- Stalwarts were a faction in the Republican party that were not keen on Civil Service reform and wanted to run Grant for a third term. Cleveland was a Democrat.
The Stalwarts, the conservative faction, saw themselves as "stalwart" in opposition to Hayes' efforts to reconcile with the South. The Half-Breeds, a term of disparagement ginned-up by the Stalwarts, was applied to the moderate faction of the Republican Party.
In the election of 1880, the Stalwarts supported Grant, liked the Patronage system and supported radical reconstruction. On the other hand, the Half-Breeds hated Grant, wanted to reform the Patronage System and wanted to end radical reconstruction.
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