History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . vinced a power in theman which was the amazement of every one. 190 EXPANSION [i8g6 Spite of all this, as election day drewnear, the feeling rose that it post-dated byat least two months all possibility of aDemocratic victory. Republicans limitlessresources, steady discipline, and ceaselesswork told day by day. They polled, ofthe popular vote, 7,104,244; the combinedBryan forces, 6,506,853 ; the Gold Democ-racy, 134,652; the Prohibitionists, 144,606;and the Socialists, 36,416. CHAPTER XI. MR. Mckinleys admi
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . vinced a power in theman which was the amazement of every one. 190 EXPANSION [i8g6 Spite of all this, as election day drewnear, the feeling rose that it post-dated byat least two months all possibility of aDemocratic victory. Republicans limitlessresources, steady discipline, and ceaselesswork told day by day. They polled, ofthe popular vote, 7,104,244; the combinedBryan forces, 6,506,853 ; the Gold Democ-racy, 134,652; the Prohibitionists, 144,606;and the Socialists, 36,416. CHAPTER XI. MR. Mckinleys administration TifE Nestor of the original McKinleyCabinet was John Sherman, who left hisSenate seat to the swiftly rising Hannathat he himself mightdevote his eminentbut failing powers tothe Secretaryship ofState. Upon the out-break of the SpanishWarhewas succeededby William R. Day,who had been Assist-ant Secretary. In1898 Day in turn re-signed, when Ambassador John Hay wascalled to the place from the Court of The Treasury went to LymanJ. Gage, a distinguished Illinois John Sherman. 192 EXPANSION [1897 Mr. Gage was a Democrat, and this ap-pointment was doubtless meant as a rec-ognition of theGold Democracysaid in the cam-paign. General Rus-sell A. Alger, ofMichia-an, tookcharge of the WarDepartment, holdingit till July 19, 1899, Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury. r^ 1 • 1 i-»i*i after which ElihuRoot was installed. Postmaster-GeneralJames A. Gary, of Maryland, resigned thesame month withSherman, giving placeto Charles EmorySmith, of the Phila-delphia Press. TheNavy portfolio fell toJohn D. Long, ofMassachusetts; that of the Interior to Jo^^ D- Long, secretary of the Navy. Cornelius N. Bliss, of New York; that ofAgriculture to James Wilson, of Iowa.
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