A history of the United States . passed over the presidents veto the Bland-Alli-son Bill, which directedthe secretary of the treas-ury to purchase from$2,000,000 to $4,000,000worth of silver bullioneach month and to coinit into standard silverdollars. Hayes had never beena real party leader; hisnomination in xhecam-1876 had been paign ofdue entirely to ^ °considerations of avail-ability. Though he hadcorrected many of theabuses of the Grant ad-ministration he had notgone far enough to sat-isfy the advanced advo-cates of civil service reform. He had thus antagonized bothreformers and spoilsmen
A history of the United States . passed over the presidents veto the Bland-Alli-son Bill, which directedthe secretary of the treas-ury to purchase from$2,000,000 to $4,000,000worth of silver bullioneach month and to coinit into standard silverdollars. Hayes had never beena real party leader; hisnomination in xhecam-1876 had been paign ofdue entirely to ^ °considerations of avail-ability. Though he hadcorrected many of theabuses of the Grant ad-ministration he had notgone far enough to sat-isfy the advanced advo-cates of civil service reform. He had thus antagonized bothreformers and spoilsmen and his advocacy of the gold stand-ard had alienated other members of his party. There wastherefore no serious thought of his renomination in 1880. The leading candidates in the Republican party wereGrant and Blaine. On thirty-six ballots Grant led, but thedeep-seated opposition to a third term prevented his nomina-tion. As there was little chance of Grants supporters goingover to Blaine the convention finally selected James James A. Garfield. 452 The New Nation Garfield of Ohio as the most available candidate. On thenomination of Senator Conkling of New York, who wasrecognized as Grants spokesman, Chester A. Arthur, whohad been removed from the position of collector of the portof New York by President Hayes for pernicious politicalactivity, was placed on the ticket as candidate for the vice-presidency, to the greatdismay of the reformwing of the party. The Democrats nomi-nated as their candidateGeneral Winfield ScottHancock, a man of highcharacter backed by asplendid military recordduring the Civil campaign was sin-gularly devoid of realpolitical issues. TheDemocratic orators madeundue use of the crimeof 1876, by which theirparty had been de-prived of the before the elec-tion the tariff questionassumed unexpected importance. The Democratic platformhad declared for a tariff for revenue only, and GeneralHancock when accused of being a free trader
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