Clayton-Bulwer treaty, 276 Cleveland, Grover, career of, 97; nomination and first administration, 98 ff.; second administration, 105 ff.; tariff message of 1887, 110; and income tax, 139; bond issues, 162; supports Gold Democrats, 193; and Venezuela affair, 199; and negotiations with Spain, 206 Coastwise vessels, exemption of, 276 Colombia, failure of negotiations with, 278 Combinations, in business, origin of, 36 Commerce, growth of, 202; interstate, 312 Conkling, Roscoe, sketch of, 51 ff.; and Grant's candidacy, 95 Conservation, Roosevelt's policy, 275 Consolidated Gas case, 81 Constitution, provisions relative to money, 119; criticism of, 305 ff. Convention, presidential, attacks on, 353 ff. Corporations, growth of, 235; regulation of, 310. _See_ Trusts. Court, commerce, 326 Courts, criticism of, 89 Coxey's army, 107 Credit Mobilier affair, 31 Cuba, conditions in, 204; war over, 209 ff.; settlement of, after the war, 221; interference in (1906), 222 Currency, law of 1908, 197 Dakota, 41 ff. Daniel, J. W., temporary chairman of Democratic convention, 171 Debs, E. V., imprisonment of, 108; and injunctions, 160; candidate for President, 298 Debt, national, refunding of, 117 De Lome incident, 207 Democrats, contest against election laws, 4 ff.; party platforms, 108 ff.; convention of 1896, 168 ff.; platform of 1896, 172; Gold, convention of 1896, 192 ff.; convention and platform of 1904, 267; victory in 1910, 339; in 1912, 372 Dewey, victory at Manila, 209 Dingley tariff, 229 Direct primary, 289 Due process. _See_ Fourteenth amendment. Economy and efficiency commission, 328 El Caney, 211 Election laws, federal, contest over repeal of, 4 ff. Employers' liability, federal, 274 Erie Railway, capitalization of, 39 Farmers, discontent of, 162 Farmers' Alliance, 151 Farm population, 40 Farms, increase in number, 40; size of, in South, 47 Fifteenth amendment, nullification of, in the South, 1; schemes to avoid, 9 ff. Finance, high, early experiments in, 39 Fourteenth Amendment, interpretation of, 54 ff. Free silver, discussion by W. J. Bryan, 180 ff. Free silver. _See_ Bryan, W. J. Garfield, nomination and administration of, 94 ff.; assassination, 96 Georgia, disfranchisement of negroes in, 11 Gold Democrats, 192 ff. Gold standard, Republicans favor in 1896, 166; established by law (1900), 197; Parker telegram on, 267 Gompers, Samuel, 251 Gould, Jay, 38 Granger cases, 67 ff. Granger movement, 147 Grant, third term contest, 94 Great Britain, and Venezuela affair, 199 Greenback party, on income tax, 137; doctrines of, 150 Greenbacks, amount of, 117; reissue of, 123 Guiteau, assassinates Garfield, 96 Hague conference, 281 Hancock, General, candidate for the Presidency, 96