Contemporary American History, 1877-1913

by Charles A. Beard

INDEX

• Aguinaldo, [217]
• Alabama, disfranchisement of negroes in, [11]
• Aliens, proportion of, [248]
• Altgeld, Governor, [108], [160]
• American Civic Federation, [251]
• American Federation of Labor, [250]
• Anti-monopoly party, [138]
• Anti-trust cases, [331] ff.
• Anti-trust law (1890), [134]
• Arbitration in labor disputes, federal law, [102]
• Arbitration, treaties, 1911, [329]
• Archbald, Judge, impeachment of, [326]
• Arizona, [41] ff.;
  • contest over recall of judges, [287]
• Army. See Spanish War
• Arthur, Chester A., nomination, [95];
  • administration, [97]
• 
  
• Ballinger, R. A., [328]
  • candidacy in 1884, [98];
  • on silver question, [121]
• Blaine, James G., [95];
• Bland-Allison bill, [123]
• Bonds, sales under Cleveland, [106]
• Bourne, Senator, attacks on convention system, [353] ff.
  • nomination of, [187];
  • acceptance speech in 1896, [188];
  • favors initiative and referendum, [284];
  • candidacy in 1900, [227];
  • candidacy in 1908, [318] ff.;
  • program in 1908, [318];
  • attacks Taft's judicial appointments, [330]
• Bryan, W. J., speech in Democratic convention of 1896, [180];
  • controversy over, in 1904, [268];
  • in 1908, [320];
  • in 1912, [357]
• 
  
• Campaign funds, [239], [240] ff.;
• Campaign, 1896, [195]
• Canada, reciprocity with, [342]
• Cannon, Speaker, overthrow of, [336] ff.
  • evolution of, [229] ff.
  • See Industry and Labor.
• Capital, influence of, in politics, [33]
• Capitalism, in South, [48];
  • American interests in, [224]
• Cervera, Admiral, [210] ff.
• China, opening of, [203];
• Chinese coolies, [35]
• Cities, growth of population, [34], [247]
• Civil rights act, [14] ff.
  • law of 1883, [130]
• Civil rights cases, [15]
• Civil service, and Theodore Roosevelt, [104];
• Clark, Champ, candidacy of, [365]
  • 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]
• Clayton-Bulwer treaty, [276]
• Cleveland, Grover, career of, [97];
• Coastwise vessels, exemption of, [276]
• Colombia, failure of negotiations with, [278]
• Combinations, in business, origin of, [36]
• Commerce, growth of, [202];
  • and Grant's candidacy, [95]
• interstate, [312]
• Conkling, Roscoe, sketch of, [51] ff.;
• Conservation, Roosevelt's policy, [275]
  • criticism of, [305] ff.
• Consolidated Gas case, [81]
• Constitution, provisions relative to money, [119];
  • regulation of, [310].
  • See Trusts.
• Convention, presidential, attacks on, [353] ff.
• Corporations, growth of, [235];
• Court, commerce, [326]
• Courts, criticism of, [89]
• Coxey's army, [107]
  • war over, [209] ff.;
  • settlement of, after the war, [221];
  • interference in (1906), [222]
• Crédit Mobilier affair, [31]
• Cuba, conditions in, [204];
• Currency, law of 1908, [197]
  
• Dakota, [41] ff.
  • and injunctions, [160];
  • candidate for President, [298]
• Daniel, J. W., temporary chairman of Democratic convention, [171]
• Debs, E. V., imprisonment of, [108];
• Debt, national, refunding of, [117]
  • 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]
• De Lôme incident, [207]
• Democrats, contest against election laws, [4] ff.;
• 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]
  • size of, in South, [47]
• Farm population, [40]
  • schemes to avoid, [9] ff.
• Farms, increase in number, [40];
• Fifteenth amendment, nullification of, in the South, [1];
• Finance, high, early experiments in, [39]
• Fourteenth Amendment, interpretation of, [54] ff.
• Free silver, discussion by W. J. Bryan, [180] ff.
  • assassination, [96]
• Free silver. See Bryan, W. J.
  
• Garfield, nomination and administration of, [94] ff.;
• Georgia, disfranchisement of negroes in, [11]
  • established by law (1900), [197];
  • Parker telegram on, [267]
• Gold Democrats, [192] ff.
• Gold standard, Republicans favor in 1896, [166];
• Gompers, Samuel, [251]
• Gould, Jay, [38]
• Granger cases, [67] ff.
• Granger movement, [147]
• Grant, third term contest, [94]
  • doctrines of, [150]
• Great Britain, and Venezuela affair, [199]
  • reissue of, [123]
• Greenback party, on income tax, [137];
• Greenbacks, amount of, [117];
• Guiteau, assassinates Garfield, [96]
  
• Hague conference, [281]
  • and campaign of 1900, [227];
  • career and policies of, [239] ff.
• Hancock, General, candidate for the Presidency, [96]
• Hanna, M. A., convention of 1895, [165];
• Harriman, E. H., and controversy with Roosevelt, [270]
• Harrison, Benjamin, candidacy and administration, [103] ff.
  • vetoes repeal of election laws, [5];
  • administration of, [92] ff.
• Hawaiian Islands, [203]
• Hayes, and the South, [1] ff.;
• Hay-Pauncefote treaty, [276]
• Haywood, W. D., [301]
• Hepburn act, [271]
• Hill, D. B., in Democratic convention of 1896, [170] ff.
• Hobson, R. P., [210]
  
• Idaho, [41] ff.
  • in American politics, [227]
• Immigration, [34], [248]
  • annulled by Supreme Court, [152] ff.;
  • W. J. Bryan on, [189];
  • advocated by Roosevelt, [262];
  • amendment to federal constitution, [325]
• Imperialism, [199] ff.;
  • in South, [48]. See Labor.
• Income tax, law of 1894, [127]; [137] ff.;
• Industry, in 1860, [29];
  • in Progressive platform, [371];
  • favored by Wilson, [380]
• Industrial Workers of the World, [301]
  • an issue in politics, [158] ff.
• Initiative and referendum, origin and growth of, [284] ff.;
• Injunctions, use of, in labor disputes, [36];
• Insular cases, [218] ff.
  • American interests in, [224]
• Insurance, regulation of, [310]
  
• Japan, opening of, [203];
• Jenks, J. W., on trusts, [238]
• Jim Crow cars, [19]
• Judicial review, growth of doctrine of, [67] ff.
• Judiciary. See Supreme Court and Recall.
  
• Knights of Labor, [35], [249]
  • in South, [48];
  • in party platforms, [114];
  • and tariff, [115];
  • regulation of, [249] ff., [304], [308]
• Ku Klux Klan, [1]
  
  • Federal, [141]
• Labor, number of wage earners, [34];
• Labor legislation and the courts, [87] ff.;
• Labor movement, [249]
• Labor problem, rise of, [35]
• Labor, Knights of, [35], [249]
• Labor Reformers, [35], [145] ff.
  • Gold Democrats defend, [192];
  • decline of, [304];
  • Wilson's view of, [377]
• La Follette, R. M., candidacy of, [344] ff.
• Laissez faire, and the Constitution, [54] ff.;
• Liberal Republicans, [109]
• Lincoln, on social equality for the negro, [21]
  • disfranchisement of negroes in, [11]
• Lochner v. New York, [87]
• Louisiana, Republican rule in, overthrown, [1] ff.;
• 
  
• Maine, the battleship, [207]
  • and the gold standard, [167];
  • election of, [197];
  • administration of, [199] ff.;
  • and Spanish war, [206] ff.;
  • renomination in 1900, [227];
  • election, [228];
  • campaign funds of, [241]
• Manila, naval battle of, [209]
• Massachusetts, primary law in, [356]
• McKinley, Wm., tariff bill, [126];
• Merritt, General, [212]
• Mexico, relations with, [342]
• Miles, General, [212]
• Mills, tariff bill, [126]
• Minnesota rate case, [73] ff.
• Mississippi, disfranchisement of negroes in, [10]
  • Roosevelt on, [262]; [280]
• Mitchell, John, [250]
• Money question. See Silver question.
• Monroe Doctrine, [199] ff.;
• Montana, [41] ff.
• Morgan, J. P., [231]
• Mormons, [42] ff.
• Morrison, W. R., and tariff, [126]
• Mugwumps, [99]
  • social discriminations against, [14] ff.;
  • attitude of the North toward, [19] ff.;
  • problem, [22] ff.;
  • education of, [23];
  • in industries, [24];
  • movement, [25]
• Munn v. Illinois, [67] ff.
  
• Nebraska, primary law in, [356]
• Negro, disfranchisement of, [1] ff., [7] ff.;
• New Mexico, [41] ff.
• New nationalism, [314] ff.
• North Carolina, disfranchisement of negroes in, [11]
• North Dakota, [41] ff.
• Northern Pacific, [42]
  
  • revolution in, [278]
• Oregon, primary law in, [354]
  
• Palmer, J. M., candidate for President, [192]
• Panama, canal, sketch of, [275] ff.;
• Paper money. See Greenbacks.
• Parcels post, [327]
  • law of 1890, [105]
• Parker, Alton B., nomination and candidacy of, [267] ff.
  • revolt against the United States, [217];
  • government of, [223];
  • in American politics, [227];
  • Republican platform of 1904 on, [265];
  • Democratic platform of 1904 on, [267]
• Payne-Aldrich tariff, [323] ff.
• Pensions, vetoes by Cleveland, [101];
• Philippines, military operations in, [209] ff.;
• Platt amendment, [221]
  • on income tax, [138]
• Poll tax, to disfranchise negroes, [9]
  • government of, [222]
• Populist party, origin of, [149] ff.
• Populists, and disfranchisement of negroes, [9];
  • presidential, [352] ff.;
  • presidential, in 1912, [358]
• Porto Rico, conquest of, [212];
• Postal savings banks, [326]
• Primary, direct, origin and growth of, [288];
• Progressive party, origin of, [357] ff.; [370] ff.
• Progressive Republican League, [344]
• Prohibition party, [144] ff.
  • land grants to, [30];
  • frauds connected with, [31];
  • anarchy among, [39];
  • state regulation of, [67] ff.;
  • party platforms on, [113] ff.;
  • regulation, federal, [133];
  • state regulation of, [149];
  • and stock watering, [234];
  • regulation of, [272];
  • physical valuation of, [273];
  • consolidation of, [306]
• Pullman strike, [107]
• Pure food law, [273]
  
  • origin and growth of, [287];
  • Wilson on, [380]
• Railways, construction of, [29] ff.;
• Reagan v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, [76] ff.
  • candidate for President, [165]
• Recall, of judges, origin of, [89];
  • radical school, [2];
  • favor new "force" bill, [20];
  • favor enforcing the Civil War amendments, [21];
  • doctrines of, 1880-1896, [90] ff.;
  • party platforms, [108] ff.;
  • convention of 1896, [164] ff.;
  • convention of 1900, [226];
  • convention of 1904, [265];
  • convention of 1912, [357] ff.
• Reciprocity with Canada, [341]
• Reed, T. B., speakership, [104];
• Republicans, platform of 1876, [2];
  • nominated for Vice President, [227];
  • succeeds to the Presidency, [228];
  • administrations of, [254] ff.;
  • doctrines of, [255] ff.;
  • characterization of, by Republicans in 1904, [266];
  • Democratic criticism of, in 1904, [268];
  • Parker charges as to campaign funds of, [269];
  • La Follette's criticism of, [347];
  • candidacy of, in 1912, [349] ff.;
  • new nationalism, [350];
  • breaks with Republicans, [360]
• Resumption act, [118]
• Rockefeller, J. D., [37]
• Roosevelt, at San Juan Hill, [211];
• Rough Riders, [211]
• Rules committee, powers of, [337]
• Russo-Japanese war, Roosevelt's part in ending, [281]
  
• Samoan Islands, [203]
• San Juan Hill, [211]
  • popular election favored by Wilson, [380]
• Santiago, military and naval operations near, [210] ff.
• Santo Domingo, affair of, [279]
  • anti-trust law, [134]
• Senators, U. S., direct election of, [290] ff.;
  • origin and development of, [119] ff.;
  • in campaign of 1896, [165] ff.
• Shafter, General, [211] f.
• Sherman, silver purchase act, [124];
• Silver question, party platforms on, [116], [162];
• Sixteen to one. See Silver question.
  • rise and growth of, [296] f.
• Slaughter-House cases, [59] ff.
• Smyth v. Ames, [78]
  • vote in 1912, [372]
• Socialism, opposition to, [251];
• Socialist Labor party, [147], [297]
  • new constitutions providing for disfranchisement of negroes, [10] ff.;
  • over-representation of, in Congress, [20];
  • economic advance of, [46] ff.;
  • Republican delegates from, [354]
• Socialist party, rise of, [298];
  • disfranchisement of negroes in, [11]
• Socialists, vote of, increase in 1904, [271]
  • initiative and referendum in, [284]
• South, Republican rule in, [1] ff.;
• South Carolina, Republican rule in, overthrown, [1] ff.;
• South Dakota, [41] ff.;
• 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]
  • Pullman, [107]
• Steel trust, [230]
• Stock watering, [234]
• Strikes, of 1877, [35];
  • 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]
• Suffrage, woman, growth of, [294]
  • 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]
• Sugar trust, [239]
  • 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]
• Supreme Court, declares parts of election laws invalid, [6] f.;
• 
  
  • attack on Cleveland in Democratic convention of 1896, [175]
• Taft, W. H., on recall of judges, [287];
  • 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.
• Tariff, in Cleveland's first administration, [103];
• Third term contest, [94]
• Tillman, on negro suffrage, [8];
• Trusts, origin of, [37];
• 
  
• Unemployment, in 1894, [107]
• Union Labor party, [138], [146]
• Union Pacific, scandal of, [31]
• Unions, Trade, [301] ff.
  • initiative and referendum in, [285]
• United Labor Party, [146]
• United States v. Cruikshank, [7]
• United States v. Harris, [7]
• United States v. Reese, [7]
• Utah, [41] ff.;
  • ex parte, [17]
• 
  
• Vanderbilt, Cornelius, [38]
• Venezuela affair, [199]
• Vetoes, by Cleveland, [101] f.
• Vilas, Senator, in Democratic convention of 1896, [179]
  • acceptance speech, [367];
  • policies of, [373] ff.
• Virginia, disfranchisement of negroes in, [11];
• 
  
  • endorsed by Progressives, [371]
• Wage earners, number of, [34]
• Washington, state of, [41] ff.
• West, development of, [41]
• Wilson, Wm., tariff bill, [127]
• Wilson, Woodrow, candidacy of, [365];
• Women in industries, [248]
• Woman suffrage, growth of, [294] ff.;
• Wyoming, [41] ff.
  

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