1900; or, The last President

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INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD,
Of the New York Bar.
Copyright, 1896, by Ingersoll Lockwood.
The Trade Supplied by
THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY,
New York.
The Chicago Platform assumes, in fact, the form of a revolutionary propaganda. It embodies a menace of national disintegration and destruction.
Garret A. Hobart.
That was a terrible night for the great City of New York—the night of Tuesday, November 3rd, 1896. The city staggered under the blow like a huge ocean liner which plunges, full speed, with terrific crash into a mighty iceberg, and recoils shattered and trembling like an aspen.
The people were gathered, light-hearted and confident, at the evening meal, when the news burst upon them. It was like a thunder bolt out of an azure sky: “Altgeld holds Illinois hard and fast in the Democratic line. This elects Bryan President of the United States!”