. Review of reviews and world's work. party. The s[)lit was a deep one. Ofthe three ex-candidates for President then liv-ing, Dow, St. John, and Bidwell, eacli expressedhimself during the campaign in favor of the newLiberty party ; and of the six living ex-candi-dates for \ic(!-Pr(^sident, but two, Hussell andCranfill, supported the old party, tliough twoothers, Stewart and Daniel, finally voted with it. This year a similar contc^st was seen, thoughin a much milder form. Th(^ two most promi-nent candidates for the Presidential nominationwere Jolm G. Woolley, of Illinois, and SiUis C. S
. Review of reviews and world's work. party. The s[)lit was a deep one. Ofthe three ex-candidates for President then liv-ing, Dow, St. John, and Bidwell, eacli expressedhimself during the campaign in favor of the newLiberty party ; and of the six living ex-candi-dates for \ic(!-Pr(^sident, but two, Hussell andCranfill, supported the old party, tliough twoothers, Stewart and Daniel, finally voted with it. This year a similar contc^st was seen, thoughin a much milder form. Th(^ two most promi-nent candidates for the Presidential nominationwere Jolm G. Woolley, of Illinois, and SiUis C. Swallow, of Pennsylvania, wlio, asgubernatorial candidate in that State in 1898, 328 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF REK/EIVS. had polled 125,740 votes, laigely won by Irisfight for ^ honest government and againstQuay. Mr. Woolley stood for the most rigidadlierence to the single-issue policy. Dr. Swal-low stood for a platform that w^ould include, be-sides Prohibition, planks against imperialismas distinguished from expansion, against. MR. JOHN G. WOOLLEY, OF ILLINOIS. (Prohibitionist nominee for President.) monopolies, in favor of civil-service reform, bal-lot reform, arbitration between capital and labor,international arbitration, and a Congressionalenactment submitting the question of womansuffrage to the vState legislatures in the form ofa Constitutional amendment. The vote wasclose, and the result could not be told untilnearly the last State delegation had been Granville Woolley, the eighth Presiden-tial candidate of the Prohibition party, is betterknown in church gatherings than in political cir-cles. He is an Ohio man, having been bornhalf a century ago in the little town of Collins-ville, near Cincinnati, of pioneer parents, andhaving received his college education in theOhio Wesleyan University. He has never heldpublic office, except that of city attorney inParis, 111. (1876-77), and that of state-attorneyin Minneapolis (1884-86). Like John B. Goughand Franc
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