Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Scratcher
subs. (American).—1. An independent elector; a BOLTER (q.v.).
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1883. GEORGE WALTON GREEN, Our Nominating Machines, in The Atlantic Monthly, LII. 327. To whom a ‘SCRATCHER’ or a ‘bolter’ is more hateful than the Beast.
