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Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
etting enough electoral votes for the fusion ticket. I labored assiduously throughout the campaign to this end. It was supposed that a fusion could be made in Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia, and New Jersey; the fusion was made in Michigan, and we voted a generous ticket with the understanding that the electors should represenMichigan, and we voted a generous ticket with the understanding that the electors should represent the respective parties to the fusion in the proportion of the votes cast by each — that is, if the Democrats cast one half the vote they were to have one half the electors, and the greenbackers were to have the other half, or whatever the relative vote of the two parties was to the electors, they were to be divided in the same pat in the campaign of 1888 I made a single speech in Boston in behalf of the tariff, and I repeated that speech at Detroit, at the request of President Harrison. Michigan was regarded as a doubtful State, as another attempt was being made to have a fusion between the Democrats and greenbackers in that campaign, such as was carried
Cape Ann (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
rnor of Massachusetts and he becomes Governor that council Tewksbury the Fast-day proclamation Appointees Harvard College running for President in 1884 Cleveland's election fraudulent In 1863 I provided myself with a piece of land on Cape Ann, on the northeast coast of Massachusetts, for a summer home for myself and family. I pitched my tent on the southerly side of it next to Ipswich Bay, a beautiful and picturesque piece of water, where the sunsets are equal to those of the Bay ofoys and their tutor I established myself in this tent on the beach as a seashore home. We all neglected that residence somewhat in 1864, but then we were occupying a tent with the Army of the James in Virginia. In the summer of 1865 we were on Cape Ann again, where we spent a very delightful season in sailing and fishing, and the full enjoyment of a free life. This residence was about forty miles from my home at Lowell, and outside of the congressional district in which that city is situated.
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
and directly called upon by the gentleman from Maine [Mr. Blaine] to reply in some small degree as paper — to thus hear me. The gentleman from Maine seeks in the first place to meet this great qu I disagree. It is because the gentleman from Maine attempts to meet this question, I respectfullyand when he comes in he and the gentleman from Maine can fight the battle out. I am quite certain text class of arguments that the gentleman from Maine puts forward on this question is the proposalsas wrong, without the dictum of my friend from Maine [Mr. Blaine]. I did not say that Salmon P. Chant. five-twenty loan (which the gentleman from Maine contends was payable in gold) he says only somess of the country; because the gentleman from Maine tells them that the government will pay the pr for currency, I agree with the gentleman from Maine that it will be depreciated. But what is too shall be that exact loan which my friend from Maine yesterday thought would be so absurd — a loan [12 more...]<
Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
t amount of circulation without redundancy; and as each legal-tender note is, as we have seen, a part of the debt secured by mortgage of the whole property of the United States, without depreciation. Our debt now is $2,500,000,000, about $2,200,000,000 of it interest-bearing. Suppose we issue our legal-tender greenbacks, as I will call them for convenience, and buy up or redeem our interest-bearing debt that is due to the amount of $1,000,000,000. Then our debt stands, James F. Wilson, Iowa. Geo. S. Boutwell, Mass. John A. Logan, El. Benj. F. Butler, Mass. Thaddeus Stevens, Penn. Thos. Williams, Penn. Jno. A. Bingham, Ohio: managers of the House of Representatives of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson. $1,000,000,000 of non-interest-bearing debt, and $1,500,000,000 of interest-bearing debt. Now, if that $1,000,000,000 of circulation is too much, i. e., more than is needed for currency, I agree with the gentleman from Maine that it will be depreciated. But what is t
West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
not be procured to prevent the election of Mr. Cleveland by getting enough electoral votes for the fusion ticket. I labored assiduously throughout the campaign to this end. It was supposed that a fusion could be made in Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia, and New Jersey; the fusion was made in Michigan, and we voted a generous ticket with the understanding that the electors should represent the respective parties to the fusion in the proportion of the votes cast by each — that is, if the Demoe vote of the two parties was to the electors, they were to be divided in the same proportion. In Indiana the fusion failed, those having charge of the fusion party in that State, for some reason never explained to me, having given way. In West Virginia and in New Jersey the fusion also failed. The only hope was then in my drawing enough votes from the Democratic party from the State of New York to prevent its throwing its vote for Cleveland. I was supported by the strongest man, the one o
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
employment. Banks that are needed would still be banks of loan and discount, but not of circulation. It is said that the banks furnish now the best currency this country ever saw, because it is the same in New Orleans, Boston, New York, and Chicago. But what is the currency? It is the notes of the bank. What makes them equal all over this country? It is the indorsement of the United States. So that we have come into this very remarkable position, that when a bank breaks its currency iovernor of Massachusetts I have never put myself in the way of being voted for for that place since. In 1884, I was elected by the Democratic State Convention of Massachusetts one of the delegates at large to attend the National Convention at Chicago. I was very kindly received by the multitude attending that convention and was put upon a committee to report a platform for the party. There were very able men in that committee and men of very decided and somewhat discordant opinions. We
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 22
t city is situated. When autumn came we struck the tent, and afterwards I spent the winter at Washington before the courts there. In 1866 we returned to our tent, and in fishing and fowling spent anen I came away from home that there would be an impeachment during that session that I took to Washington with me my copy of the English state trials so as to have them handy, and they were of great sor the suspicions entertained against Johnson. On the day of the assassination Johnson was in Washington, residing at a hotel known as the Kirkwood House. Booth shot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre a few commencement of the administration of President Grant. A commission from England was sent to Washington to negotiate it. A treaty was negotiated called the Treaty of Washington, which I then believeWashington, which I then believed, and still believe, to be exceedingly adverse to American interests. I advised President Grant against it in every possible form, and against any treaty. I said our claims as a nation against En
New York State (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
nding the platform, because I knew how a man from a State like Indiana would construe it. But the delegation of the State of New York carried the nomination of Mr. Cleveland by insisting upon voting as a unit, by voting a majority, which States had ersey the fusion also failed. The only hope was then in my drawing enough votes from the Democratic party from the State of New York to prevent its throwing its vote for Cleveland. I was supported by the strongest man, the one of the greatest influence that I knew in the State of New York, Mr. John Kelly, who represented the opposition to Mr. Cleveland. Election day came, and there were votes enough thrown for me several times over to have prevented Mr. Cleveland's election, but in many of the polling-places they were counted not for me, but for Cleveland, and so the electoral ticket for the State of New York was counted for him by a few hundred votes only. At first I intended to have an investigation made to prove the facts I ha
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
n the speech in which he did this, and it was the most amusing one I ever read. He said in substance:-- Fellow-citizens, I am accused of being an aristocrat. It is said that I wear white gloves. Well, I shall have to plead guilty to that last charge. I do wear white gloves for the purposes of society. You are told that I go about dressed in a very expensive, cleanly manner. I assure you, fellow-citizens, that when I was a young man, and was a sailor before the mast on the coast of California, it became a part of my labors to carry rawhides down the banks to the sea, and wash them, and put them on board the vessel, and I had to put them in a pit to do so, and when I was washing them and stamping out the filth, I assure you, fellow-citizens, I was as dirty as any of you. But how does my opponent live? If you will come down to my cottage at Manchester-by-the-Sea and visit me, I will take you in my one-horse wagon and drive you around the town and show you our beaches, which are
Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
twell, of Massachusetts, afterwards Secretary of the Treasury, or of the Hon. John A. Bingham, of Ohio. And I suppose it is no harm to state at this day that considerable acrimony arose between the m had a corps of faithful stenographers around me, and, fortunately, the Hon. William Lawrence, of Ohio, a man of a good deal of learning and industry, assisted me in getting together all the legal aut slavery, by an argument to the prejudice of the House, knowing full well that the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Pendleton] may have some theories on this question and political opinions in general which ant at this point by coupling the views expressed by me with those expressed by the gentleman from Ohio. Now, why should he do that if he has a good case? My argument, sir, will be neither better norLogan, El. Benj. F. Butler, Mass. Thaddeus Stevens, Penn. Thos. Williams, Penn. Jno. A. Bingham, Ohio: managers of the House of Representatives of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson. $1,000
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