Essentials of United States history . English ofIndiana. A third party, the Greenback party, nominatedJames B. Weaver of Iowa, and a fourth candidate, NealDow of Maine, was put forward by the was elected by a vote of two hundred and fourteeiias against one hundred and fifty-five for Hancock. SUMMARY President Hayes showed his broad statesmanship by remov-ing the United States troops from the South and letting thepeople control their own affairs. He also inaugurated civilservice reform. The Mississippi jetties were built during this payments were resumed.
Essentials of United States history . English ofIndiana. A third party, the Greenback party, nominatedJames B. Weaver of Iowa, and a fourth candidate, NealDow of Maine, was put forward by the was elected by a vote of two hundred and fourteeiias against one hundred and fifty-five for Hancock. SUMMARY President Hayes showed his broad statesmanship by remov-ing the United States troops from the South and letting thepeople control their own affairs. He also inaugurated civilservice reform. The Mississippi jetties were built during this payments were resumed. GARFIELD AND ARTHURS ADMINISTRATION (1881-1885) 333 CHAPTER XXXIV GARFIELD AND ARTHURS ADMINISTRATION (1881-1885) 440. Party Feuds. — The opening months of the newadministration were chiefly occupied with a struggle overappointments. There were two wings of the Repubhcanparty. On one side were the Stalwarts, as they werecalled, led by Senator Conkling of New York, and on theother side the Half Breeds, under the leadership of Blaine. James A. Garfield. Chester A. Arthur. and Garfield. The Stalwarts proposed certain appoint-ments which the President did not indorse. This led toheated political differences. 441. Garfield Assassinated. — Garfield had been in officenot quite four months. He was overcoming these partydifficulties, and matters were settling down to a proper work-ing order, when a shocking tragedy occurred, which startledthe entire nation. The President had planned a pleasantouting. He was on his way to attend the commencementexercises at Williams College, of which he was a graduate,and from there he was to go to the American Institute ofInstruction at St. Albans, Vt., and to the White Mountains, 334 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY On the morning of July 2, in company with Mr. Blaine,the secretary of state, he was standing in the PennsylvaniaRailroad Station at Washington. There he was shot by adisappointetl office seeker. He lingered, a great sufferer, tillon
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