[T]he Tribune . . . may not mislead Union electors by imputing Republicanism to Mr. HECKER. The Tribune takes Mr. O'GORMAN with his secession record—Mr. HECKER isof the same stripe.
"Well, it is the same thing over again," he thought bitterly, "like mother, like daughter—they are bothof the same stripe."
1922,Irving Bacheller, chapter 8, inIn the Days of Poor Richard:
I had no gods to bother me, and my friends wereof the same stripe.
1992 March 1, "Viewpoint: A year later" (editorial),Observer-Reporter (Washington, Pennsylvania), p. B4(retrieved 23 Feb 2013):
Once having overthrown Saddam, we would have faced two choices: accepting another dictatorof the same stripe . . . or getting bogged down trying to administer the place ourselves.