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I. A TRANSITION PERIOD II. POLITICAL GROPING AND PARTY FLUCTUATION III. THE ADVENT OF CLEVELAND IV. A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS V. PARTY POLICY IN CONGRESS VI. PRESIDENTIAL KNIGHT-ERRANTRY VII. THE PUBLIC DISCONTENTS VIII. THE REPUBLICAN OPPORTUNITY IX. THE FREE SILVER REVOLT X. L...
While President Cleveland was struggling with the difficult situation in the Treasury, popular unrest was increasing in violence. Certain startling political developments now ga...
5. Chapter 5As soon as Cleveland was seated in the presidential chair, he had to deal with a tremendous onslaught of office seekers. In ordinary business affairs, a man responsible for gene...
10. Chapter 10The avenging consequences of the Silver Purchase Act moved so rapidly that when John Griffin Carlisle took office as Secretary of the Treasury in 1893, the gold reserve had fall...
2. Chapter 2Politicians at Washington very generally failed to realize that the advent of President Hayes marked the dismissal of the issues of war and reconstruction. They regarded as an e...
6. Chapter 6While President Cleveland was successfully asserting his executive authority, the House of Representatives, too, was trying to assert its authority; but its choice of means was...
8. Chapter 8While President and Congress were passing the time in mutual obstruction, the public discontents were becoming hot and bitter to a degree unknown before. A marked feature of the...
9. Chapter 9The Republican party had the inestimable advantage in the year 1889 of being able to act. It controlled the Senate which had become the seat of legislative authority; it control...
7. Chapter 7Although President Cleveland decisively repelled the Senate's attempted invasion of the power of removal belonging to his office, he was still left in a deplorable state of serv...
4. Chapter 4Popular dissatisfaction with the behavior of public authority had not up to this time extended to the formal Constitution. Schemes of radical rearrangement of the political inst...
3. Chapter 3President Garfield's career was cut short so soon after his accession to office, that he had no opportunity of showing whether he had the will and the power to obtain action for...
1. Chapter 1I. A TRANSITION PERIOD II. POLITICAL GROPING AND PARTY FLUCTUATION III. THE ADVENT OF CLEVELAND IV. A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS V. PARTY POLICY IN CONGRESS VI. PRESIDENTIAL KNIGHT-E...