Parties, Problems and Leaders of 1896: An Impartial Presentation of Living National Questions ... with Portraits and Biographies of Distinguished Party Leaders; Also, Lives of the Candidates for President and Vice-President , Convention Proceedings and Full Text of National PlatformsPublishers' Union, 1896 - 615 pages |
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... established Michigan Car Company , 1863 ; member and chairman of Republican State Central Committee , 1876 , 1886 , 1890 ; President of Detroit Park Commission and Board of Estimates ; Republican Presidential Elector , 1884 ; elected to ...
... established Michigan Car Company , 1863 ; member and chairman of Republican State Central Committee , 1876 , 1886 , 1890 ; President of Detroit Park Commission and Board of Estimates ; Republican Presidential Elector , 1884 ; elected to ...
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... established lines , to the enunciation of fresh prin- ciples , to the establishment of new parties , to the multi- plication of candidatures . The time has been when these have gone so far as to entirely befog real situations and to ...
... established lines , to the enunciation of fresh prin- ciples , to the establishment of new parties , to the multi- plication of candidatures . The time has been when these have gone so far as to entirely befog real situations and to ...
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... established usages of credit and ex- change , and who favor radical departures in the interest of debtor and against creditor . If they are right , the quicker they establish the fact the better . The indi- vidual creditor , the savings ...
... established usages of credit and ex- change , and who favor radical departures in the interest of debtor and against creditor . If they are right , the quicker they establish the fact the better . The indi- vidual creditor , the savings ...
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... establishing a permanent policy of neutrality . The unanimity and boldnesss which had been equal to the solution of ... establish- ment of circuit courts drove the Federals from their last hold on the government , and they never ...
... establishing a permanent policy of neutrality . The unanimity and boldnesss which had been equal to the solution of ... establish- ment of circuit courts drove the Federals from their last hold on the government , and they never ...
Page 84
... establish the relations of re- bellious States to the Union . An equally important de- cision declared the Legal Tender Act of 1862 to be constitutional , thus bringing the " Greenback " into great popularity and laying the foundation ...
... establish the relations of re- bellious States to the Union . An equally important de- cision declared the Legal Tender Act of 1862 to be constitutional , thus bringing the " Greenback " into great popularity and laying the foundation ...
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Page 390 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers.
Page 353 - ... duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power, and it shall be his duty...
Page 391 - This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments. And to the defense of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted.
Page 50 - ... the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should...
Page 388 - Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 544 - Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them : ' You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Page 234 - Continent renders very unlikely; and because it was well worth while to incur a loss upon the first exportation, in order, by the glut, to stifle in the cradle those rising manufactures in the United States, which the war had forced into existence, contrary to the natural course of things...
Page 389 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe ; our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs.
Page 313 - We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers, to declare, that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
Page 535 - I come to speak to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty — the cause of humanity.