A history of the United States . ernicious 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 pl
A history of the United States . ernicious 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 tried to avoidthe issue by declaring that the tariff was a local received 214 electoral votes to Hancocks 155,though his popular majority was less than 10,000 in a totalof nearly 9,000,000 votes. In the selection of his cabinet Garfield tried to heal thebreach in the Repubhcan party; the appointment of James. Winfield S. Hancock. Economic Chansres 453 ^t) G. Blaine as secretary of state and most of the other ap-pointments were made with this end in view. One of Conk-lings friends was appointed postmaster general, Death ofbut this failed to satisfy him, and when the presi- Garfielddent made his own choice for the collectorship at New YorkConkling opposed the confirmation, and his colleagues, asan act of senatorial courtesy, held up the president, however, refused to be dictated to by theNew York senator, whereupon Conkling and his colleague,Thomas C. Piatt, resigned their seats and appealed to theNew York legislature, then in session. They failed, how-ever, to secure vindication at the hands of that body andnew senators were chosen for their places. The party was also divided on the question of prosecutingthe frauds which had been discovered in the Post OfficeDepartment in connection with the star routes, as the stagecoach routes in the West
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