HIST 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: David Graham Phillips, William Jennings Bryan, Grover Cleveland
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James garield elected 1880: shot by a deranged oice seeker poor medical care killed him. Chester a. arthur garield"s vp took over ater death: to everyone"s surprise he was a good president, died of kidney disease. Grover cleveland elected 1884: only elected democrat of the post-war period. Grover cleveland elected again in 1892: only president with split terms. Populist party plaform: naionalizaion of rrs, graduated income tax, popular elecion of senators, iniiaive, referendum, subtreasury scheme, free coinage of silver, 8-hour day for industrial workers but end to immigraion to reduce the labor force. William mckinley from ohio (swing state) William jennings bryan democrat not a civil war veteran. Why bryan lost: populist support scared of others, seen as too rural; too western, depression the great depression of the 1890s. A democrat was in oice and had to take the blame: most people saw the system as fundamentally sound ushered in era of republican dominance that would last unil the 1930s.
