Arizona republican., 1920-10-19

on to put a proper rhetorical and ora torical finish on the speech that was meant for nothing but to gain time The Force bill was dead. Its advocates knew it and did not press for vote.
 Quay DisgruntIed
 Tn that fight the Democrats were aided and abetted by two eastern Re- publicans, and their victory was due in great part to Matthews $. Quay and Don Cameron, senators from the rock ribbed Republican state os Pennsyl- vania. Quay was to figure greatly in the coming events. He had elected Harrison over great difficulties, and he naturally supposed that he was to be rewarded for his efforts in the manner that politicians are ever rewarded. He found to his surprise that Harrison credited Providence and not Quay with the victory of 1888. Harrison mortallv offended Quay on his r;rst visit to the White House after the inauguration. Harrison also forgot to reply to a tele gram of congratulation sent to him on the day after his election by General w. w. Dudley of Inefana. treasurer of the national committee. who in 1880 had organized the famous blocks of five" system.
 The Republicans believed that they
 
 great issue of protection. The promise was redeemed and the Mckinley bill, the tariff of 1890, was passed. Major Mckinley was chairman of the house committe on ways and means and thereby gave his name to the bill, but many of the schedules went in over his protest.
 Rightly or wrongly, the whole coun- try rose up in protest and in 1890 the house of representatives was turned over to the democrats once more, giv ing them the largest majority that any party had ever had in that body That tremendous victory, which swept over states that had never elected a Demo crat to any office. disheartened the Re publicans and gave courage to the Democratic hosts. Then came the great fight for nominations.
 Harrison was renominated at Min neapolis by an overwheiminG vote. The federal office holders machinery wa: loyal to him and the opposition was di- vided. Blaine had made the great blun. der of resigning his position as secre. tary of state to make the race. It was as hopeless as was Clay's candidacy for the Whig nomination in 1S4S
 William Mckinley was made perman. ent chairman of the convention, anC l
 position settled on hsm. But Harrison
 was named on the first ballot. Blaine,
 and McKinley's vote being equal. I'm
 blow was too much for Blaine and h.
 died soon, broken in heart and spirit
 A Fighting Convention.
 Clevelands third nomination was ac complished only after one of the hard
 est ante convention fights ever known
 He was opposed by the solid New Yorl delegation, Governor Hill and the Al bany machine joining hands with Tam rany to slay their common enemy. H. f had held a convention very early in tn
 year, snap convention at it wa $ called, and it had instructed the Ne1 f York delegation for him.
 In the convention Bourke CoclSra
 leaped into fame as an orator. by hi ! famous speech denouncing Clevelan.
 General Bragg of Wisconsin voiced th $ sentiments of the Democratic voter
 with his shout: We love him for tn l enemies he has made." The matchles e skill of the arch politician, William ( c Whitney, accomplished the apparent : impossible. and Cleveland was name ' as the Democratic standard bearer fC : the third time. When the conventio l adjourned there were knives in tt | bootlegs of a majority of the Demo
 cratic leaders and it seemed that Rs : publican success was absolutely a:
 sured.
 il Both parties had "straddled'' u | money question. The silver issue ws H becoming more and more persisten Il but as both parties were divided on Il neither had the courage to take eith | side of the controversy. It was e, | actly as in the ante bellum days wh, H slavery was the only real issue. b U when neither Whigs nor Democra
 dared to touch the question. d The tide of the election turned fro s Harrison to Cleveland after the gre n Homestead strike at the Carnegie Ste X, works. The Mckinley bill had n l given the laborers the increased wag r, they expected and there was serio e. labor trouble all over the country. T l. use of troops at Homestead and t r employment of Pinkertons in the F ?. West enraged the laboring peor J. against the administration
 y Until the last the Republicans h Ie confidence. all of them except a ft Ie leaders like Quay. and the Clevelat u landslide was not expected. The Der ,f ocrats were hopeful. but when tn l. had carried states like Illinois al 6. Wisconsin they were tremendous ,e surprised. Cleveland has PIT voti ) Harrison 145, and Weaver 22.
 Clevelaad's popular plurality W d over 3S0.O00 He was the only man le duplicate Andrew Jackson's record n winning popular plurality for pre- d dent three times in succession, a Id each time increasing the majority. xt was also the only president ever I 1y elected to office after a retirement. le and Harrison are the only presideI
 who succeeded each other. They 2 IF the only two who twice rode do' CT Pennsylvania avenue at the head of | Id inaugural procession together. It | is been said that in 1892 was the fiji as time that a party had been retil to from power during prosperous tim of but as the panic of 1893 was alrea ed approaching the statement is har, is fair. The election of Cleveland it. such n great majority was a forewal ou ing of the great radical unrest wh
 was to reach the flood tide at the n, = election.
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