Dorsey, Senator Stephen W., in star route frauds, 104, 127. Du Bois, W.E.B., 202. Eads, James B., 206. Eaton, Dorman B., 113. Edmunds, George F., 99, 128. Education Board, General, incorporated by Congress, 201. Educational Board, Southern, organized, 201. Egan, Patrick, Minister to Chile, 212, 213. Eight-hour day, 135, 136. Electoral Commission, the, 84. Eliot, Charles W., 60. Elkins, Stephen B., 127, 128. English, William H., 99. Equitable Life Insurance Company, investigation of, 312. Factories, American, growth of, 14, 15, 16; influenced by inventions, 95. Fairbanks, Charles W., Vice-President with Roosevelt, 305. Farmers, condition of, in North and South, contrasted, 178; discontent keenest in West, 179; experimental, 180; demand cheaper money, 181; desire cooperation, 182; believe charges against both political parties, 185; value of vote of dissatisfied, 193. Farmers' Alliance, the, in South and West, 183, 184, 192, 193; undermines Republicans in West, 185; attempts union with Knights of Labor, 186, 187; splits white vote in the South, 192, 193, 196; used to express Southern discontent, 195; holds national convention at St. Louis, 208; merged in People's Party, 209. Farms, American, size of, 40, 41, 95; increase in number, 149, 150; decrease in size of Southern, 194; number of, 194. Farragut, Admiral David G., 5. Fava, Baron, Italian Minister at Washington, 213. Federal Reserve Act, 339. Federal Trade Commission, 339. Field, James G., 211. Fisk, James, Jr., 60. Folger, Charles J., 127. Folk, Joseph W., 311. Force Bill, the, 200, 201. Ford, Paul Leicester, _The Honorable Peter Stirling_, 132. Ford, Worthington C., 254. Forestry service, 328. Free lands, disappearance of, marks new period, 154, 155. Free passes, on interstate railroads, forbidden by law, 313. Free silver, demanded by Populists, 209, 210; agitation for, 226, 228; textbook of, 229; fight for, in Republican convention (1896), 234, 235; demanded by Democratic convention, 236. Freedmen's Bureau, 34, 201; work of, 42, 43, 45. Frelinghuysen, Frederick T., 106, 109, 134. Fremont, John C., candidate for the Presidency, 3, 4; arrested in France, 60; charged with land frauds, 60, 61. "Frenzied finance," 310. Frick, Henry C., 299. "Full dinner pail, the," 280. Gage, Lyman J., 253. Garfield, James A., nominated for Presidency (1880), 99; forged letters against, 101, 104, 105, 122; sketch of, 101; his Cabinet, 102; trouble with Conkling, 103; death of, 105, 108; and the Panama Canal, 144. Garland, Augustus H., 133. George, Henry, 188. Georgia, difficulties with Congress, 47, 48. Gilman, Daniel Coit, 60. Gladden, Washington, 310. Gladstone, William E., 189. Godkin, Edwin L., editor of the _Nation_, 59, 67, 85; and civil service reform, 112. Goethals, Major George W., engineer of Canal Zone, 317. Gold, at a premium, 27; hoarded, 218; great increase in production of, 241.