Contemporary American History, 1877-1913Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin)
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Contemporary American History, 1877-1913
Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin)
United States -- History -- 1865-1921
Santiago, military and naval operations near, 210 ff.
Santo Domingo, affair of, 279
Senators, U. S., direct election of, 290 ff.;
popular election favored by Wilson, 380
Shafter, General, 211 f.
Sherman, silver purchase act, 124;
anti-trust law, 134
Silver question, party platforms on, 116, 162;
origin and development of, 119 ff.;
in campaign of 1896, 165 ff.
Sixteen to one. _See_ Silver question.
Slaughter-House cases, 59 ff.
Smyth _v._ Ames, 78
Socialism, opposition to, 251;
rise and growth of, 296 f.
Socialist Labor party, 147, 297
Socialist party, rise of, 298;
vote in 1912, 372
Socialists, vote of, increase in 1904, 271
South, Republican rule in, 1 ff.;
new constitutions providing for disfranchisement of negroes, 10 ff.;
over-representation of, in Congress, 20;
economic advance of, 46 ff.;
Republican delegates from, 354
South Carolina, Republican rule in, overthrown, 1 ff.;
disfranchisement of negroes in, 11
South Dakota, 41 ff.;
initiative and referendum in, 284
Southern Pacific, 42
Spain, war with, 204 ff.
Spanish War, close of, 212 ff.
Speakership. _See_ Reed _and_ Cannon.
Standard Oil Company, 37
State socialism, 252
Steel trust, 230
Stock watering, 234
Strikes, of 1877, 35;
Pullman, 107
Suffrage, woman, growth of, 294
Sugar trust, 239
Supreme Court, declares parts of election laws invalid, 6 f.;
and disfranchisement of negroes, 13;
civil rights cases, 15;
and Fourteenth Amendment, 54 ff.;
criticism of, 86;
and income tax, 152;
Democratic attack on, in 1806, 173 ff.;
defense of, 178;
W. J. Bryan on, 189;
Gold Democrats defend, 193;
Taft's appointments, 329
Taft, W. H., on recall of judges, 287;
in Philippines 223;
nomination and election of, 317 ff.;
administration of, 322 ff.;
nomination of, in 1912, 362;
acceptance speech, 364;
Progressive criticism of, 345
Tariff, in Cleveland's first administration, 103;
Wilson bill, 108;
party doctrines on, 1877-1896, 108 ff.;
legislation, 1877-1896, 124 ff.;
Republican platform of 1908 on, 318;
Payne-Aldrich act, 323 ff.;
board, 339 f.;
Democratic attacks on in 1911-1912, 341
Third term contest, 94
Tillman, on negro suffrage, 8;
attack on Cleveland in Democratic convention of 1896, 175
Trusts, origin of, 37;
party platforms on, 112;
law against (1890), 134;
growth of, 229 ff.;
views as to cause of, 237;
Roosevelt on, 257 ff.;
Bryan on, in 1908, 319;
Republican platform of 1912, 363;
Progressive party's platform, 371;
Wilson's view of, 375 ff.
Unemployment, in 1894, 107
Union Labor party, 138, 146
Union Pacific, scandal of, 31
Unions, Trade, 301 ff.
United Labor Party, 146
United States _v._ Cruikshank, 7
United States _v._ Harris, 7
United States _v._ Reese, 7
Utah, 41 ff.;
initiative and referendum in, 285
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 38
Venezuela affair, 199
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