Those newspapers which are not organs of any special political party, but being “neither hot nor cold,” are disliked by all party men.”
“The Mugwump Press, whose function it is to enlighten the feeble-minded… .”—The New York Tribune, 1892.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.