Young folks' history of the United States . ew to encouragingAmerican manufactures; or whether low duties should ,be levied on such articles, with the object of making ilprices cheaper for the people at large. As a rule, theRepublican party favors a higher tariff — that is, higher .duties — than the Democratic party. At the close of jlPresident Clevelands administration, the tariff ques-tion became more and more important, so that thenext presidential election (1888) turned veryupon it. In 1888, the Democratic party again nominatedGrover Cleveland of New York; and this time withAllen G. Thurma
Young folks' history of the United States . ew to encouragingAmerican manufactures; or whether low duties should ,be levied on such articles, with the object of making ilprices cheaper for the people at large. As a rule, theRepublican party favors a higher tariff — that is, higher .duties — than the Democratic party. At the close of jlPresident Clevelands administration, the tariff ques-tion became more and more important, so that thenext presidential election (1888) turned veryupon it. In 1888, the Democratic party again nominatedGrover Cleveland of New York; and this time withAllen G. Thurman of Ohio as vice-president. The Re-publican party nominated forpresident Benjamin Harrisonof Indiana, grandson of a pre-vious president; and for vice-president, Levi P. Morton ofNew York. There were also,as usual, several nominationsby minor parties, but the Re-publican ticket was success-ful, having the majority ofvotes in the electoral college,though not a majority of thetotal popular vote. were duly inaugurated, March. BENJAMIK HARRISON. Harrison and4, 1889. Near the end of President Clevelands administra* CLEVELAND. — HARRISON. 345 tion (Feb. 22, 1889) he signed a territorial bill four new States — North and South Dakota, kota, southMontana and Washington — whenever they should S.^^°*^ J Montana, form satisfactory State constitutions. This condition wasMng-having been complied with, these four States wereadmitted by proclamation of President Harrison inNovember, 1889, in the above order. In July, 1890, idaho,Idaho and Wyoming were also admitted as States of y°^^^-the Union, thus making the whole number of States ** states,forty-four. Among these, Wyoming was especially re-markable as being the first new State whose consti-tution gave the right of suffrage to women on thesame terms with men, an example since followed byColorado, Idaho and Utah. Besides these States, a newterritory, Oklahoma, was created (1890) out of a por-J^^^^^^
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