Young folks' history of the United States . atic convention nominated Grover Clevelandof New York and Thomas A. Hendricks of Democratic candidates received 219 electoralvotes, and their opponentsbut 182 ; so that the Repub-lican party was defeated,after twenty-four years ofpower. Candidates were alsonominated, at this election,by the prohibitory tempe-rance party, and by the citi-zens or greenbackparty,but these obtained no electo-ral votes. President Cleve-land was inaugurated March4, 1885, with Mr. Hendricks as Vice-President, who, however, died Nov. 25, 1885. ClevelandAfter his
Young folks' history of the United States . atic convention nominated Grover Clevelandof New York and Thomas A. Hendricks of Democratic candidates received 219 electoralvotes, and their opponentsbut 182 ; so that the Repub-lican party was defeated,after twenty-four years ofpower. Candidates were alsonominated, at this election,by the prohibitory tempe-rance party, and by the citi-zens or greenbackparty,but these obtained no electo-ral votes. President Cleve-land was inaugurated March4, 1885, with Mr. Hendricks as Vice-President, who, however, died Nov. 25, 1885. ClevelandAfter his death, a law was passed by Congress, provid-ing that in case of the deaths of both President andVice-President, the Secretary of State should be thesuccessor to the Presidency. A law had been pre-viously passed, known as the Civil Service Act,under which the appointments to certain offices shouldthenceforth be made by competitive examination ; theobject of this law being to diminish arbitrary changesin office and secure greater PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. Inaugura-tion ofPresident 344 YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. The Tariff. Presi-dentialElection of\888. largely I There was much discussion of the tariff questionduring Preside^it Clevelands administration — the ques-tion being, mainly, whether high duties should be placedon many imported articles, with a view 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 forpres
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