The Spanish War: F. E. Chadwick, Relations of the United States and Spain—excellent for diplomatic affairs; H. C. Lodge, The War with Spain (1899)—an interesting popular account; H. D. Flack, Spanish-American Diplomatic Relations Preceding the War of 1898 (1906)—a careful analysis of the causes of intervention; George Dewey, Autobiography (1913).
Imperialism: D. C. Worcester, The Philippines: Past and Present (1914), 2 vols.—a great and authoritative work by the former Secretary of the Interior in the Philippines; H. P. Willis, Our Philippine Problem (1905)—a study of American Colonial policy; J. A. Leroy, The Americans in the Philippines (1914)—a large and authoritative work on the early stages of American occupation; F. C. Chamberlin, The Philippine Problem (1913); J. G. Schurman, Philippine Fundamentals (1901); Elihu Root, Collection of Documents Relating to the United States and Porto Rico (1898-1905, Washington); L. S. Rowe, The United States and Porto Rico (1904); E. S. Wilson, Political Development of Porto Rico (1906); W. F. Willoughby, Territories and Dependencies of the United States (1905)—a general work on the government of the territories.
The Panama Canal: J. B. Bishop, The Panama Gateway (1913)—an authoritative general account; W. F. Johnson, Four Centuries of the Panama Canal (1906).
The Peace Conferences: Joseph Choate, The Two Hague Conferences (1913); J. B. Scott, The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 (1909).
American Interests in the Orient: F. F. Millard, The New Far East (1906)—special reference to American interests in China; P. S. Reinsch, World Politics (1900).
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]
- Blaine, James G., [95];
- Bland-Allison bill, [123]
- Bonds, sales under Cleveland, [106]
- Bourne, Senator, attacks on convention system, [353] ff.
- Bryan, W. J., speech in Democratic convention of 1896, [180];
- 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]
- 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]
- Crédit Mobilier affair, [31]
- Cuba, conditions in, [204];
- Currency, law of 1908, [197]
- Dakota, [41] ff.
- Daniel, J. W., temporary chairman of Democratic convention, [171]
- Debs, E. V., imprisonment of, [108];
- Debt, national, refunding of, [117]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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.
- 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]
- Imperialism, [199] ff.;
- in South, [48]. See Labor.
- Income tax, law of 1894, [127]; [137] ff.;
- Industry, in 1860, [29];
- 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]
- 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.
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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.
- 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];
- 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.
- Pullman strike, [107]
- Pure food law, [273]
- Railways, construction of, [29] ff.;
- Reagan v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, [76] ff.
- candidate for President, [165]
- Recall, of judges, origin of, [89];
- 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.;
- 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]
- 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];
- Suffrage, woman, growth of, [294]
- Sugar trust, [239]
- 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];
- 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]
- 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.