Stalwarts - 1. Faithful party followers. 2. Republican party loyalists during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. When Charles Guiteau show President James A. Garfield in 1881 because the President had not given him a patronage appointment, he is supposed to have shouted, "I am a stalwart and Arthur is president now." Obviously, Guiteau, who was hanged the next year, felt that Chester Arthur, the vice President, would be more receptive to his petitions for office than Garfield had been. He wasn't.
Source - American Government & Politics, Harper Collins Dictionary - Jay M. Shafritz-1993
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