. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. were allowed an opportunity to again placethe country in a condition of prosperity, and the effect waswonderful. The property-holders of the reconstructed States had beentaxed and robbed in every conceivable manner, and the in-dustries and progress of that section completely Hayes administration this was changed, and the re-cuperation was immediate and wonderful. The remonetiza-tion of silver was one of the measures of this administrationand received the Presidents veto. This was plainly
. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. were allowed an opportunity to again placethe country in a condition of prosperity, and the effect waswonderful. The property-holders of the reconstructed States had beentaxed and robbed in every conceivable manner, and the in-dustries and progress of that section completely Hayes administration this was changed, and the re-cuperation was immediate and wonderful. The remonetiza-tion of silver was one of the measures of this administrationand received the Presidents veto. This was plainly a movein the wrong direction, and the bill w^as passed over hisveto, which was in the interest of the banks and the bond-holders. The most important events of Hayes administration werethe removal of troops from the Southern States, and the non-interference of the Federal authorities wnth State legisla-tion in that section; the Nez Perces war; the remonetiza-tion of silver, the resumption of specie payments, and theinauguration of Hayes on the 5th of March—the 4th fallingupon 400 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF JAMES A. GAKFIELD. James Abram Garfield, was born at Orange, Cuj^ahogacounty, Ohio, November 19, 1831. His early life was abrave struggle against poverty, but he succeeded in accom-plishing a College education, and at the breaking out of thecivil war was a professor in Hiram College in his native State. During the war Garfield rose to the rank of a Major-General, but gained no particular laurels as a serving in the army he was elected to Congress, andhis political life, thus begun, was continued for seventeenyears. In 1879 he was elected to the United States Senate—just twenty years before (1859) he had been elected to theOhio State Senate—but the Kepublican Presidential Conven-tion nominated him for President, and his place in the Sen-ate was never occupied by him. His administration promisedwell; the prosecution of the star-route thieves was beg
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