Ablehnung und Schmähung sind oft die strahlendsten Tribute, die Laster und Narrheit der Tugend und der Weisheit darbringen.

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Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 4 Oct 1822 - 17 Jan 1893, by Olin Levi Warner, Plaster, 1876: In the summer of 1876, sculptor Olin Warner tried to interest the two major political parties in commissioning busts of their presidential candidates to be replicated for campaigning. The Republican camp, which was having a hard time drumming up interest in the rather colorless Rutherford B. Hayes, took advantage of the proposal. At least one Hayes supporter pinned great hopes on the resulting likeness's ability to persuade a so-far doubting public that Hayes was "a man of power." The venture for replicating the bust on a large scale, however, never went very far, and only a few copies were ever made.