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1 By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
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3 1. A Two-Party Stalemate
4 Two-Party Balance
5 2. Intense Voter Loyalty to the Two Major Political Parties
6 3. Well-Defined Voting Blocs Democratic Bloc Republican Bloc White southerners (preservation of white supremacy) Catholics Recent immigrants (esp. Jews) Urban working poor (pro-labor) Most farmers Northern whites (pro-business) African Americans Northern Protestants Old WASPs (support for anti-immigrant laws) Most of the middle class
7 4. Very Laissez Faire Federal Govt. From Govt. did very little domestically. Main duties of the federal govt.: Deliver the mail. Maintain a national military. Collect taxes & tariffs. Conduct a foreign policy. Exception administer the annual Civil War veterans pension.
8 5. The Presidency as a Symbolic Office Party bosses ruled. Presidents should avoid offending any factions within their own party. The President just doled out federal jobs. Senator Roscoe Conkling ,000 people worked for the federal govt ,000
9 1880 Presidential Election: Republicans Half Breeds Stalwarts Sen. James G. Blaine (Maine) compromise Sen. Roscoe Conkling (New York) James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur (VP)
10 1880 Presidential Election: Democrats
11 Inspecting the Democratic Curiosity Shop
12 1880 Presidential Election
13 1881: Garfield Assassinated! Charles Guiteau: I Am a Stalwart, and Arthur is President now!
14 Chester A. Arthur: The Fox in the Chicken Coop?
15 Pendleton Act (1883) Civil Service Act. The Magna Carta of civil service reform ,000 out of 117,000 federal govt. jobs became civil service exam positions ,000 out of 200,000 civil service federal govt. jobs.
16 Republican Mugwumps Reformers who wouldn t re-nominate Chester A. Arthur. Reform to them create a disinterested, impartial govt. run by an educated elite like themselves. Social Darwinists. Laissez faire government to them: Favoritism & the spoils system seen as govt. intervention in society. Their target was political corruption, not social or economic reform!
17 The Mugwumps Men may come and men may go, but the work of reform shall go on forever. Will support Cleveland in the 1884 election.
18 1884 Presidential Election Grover Cleveland James Blaine * (DEM) (REP)
19 A Dirty Campaign Ma, Ma where s my pa? He s going to the White House, ha ha ha!
20 Little Lost Mugwump Blaine in 1884
21 Rum, Romanism & Rebellion! Led a delegation of ministers to Blaine in NYC. Reference to the Democratic Party. Blaine was slow to repudiate the remark. Dr. Samuel Burchard Narrow victory for Cleveland [he wins NY by only 1149 votes!].
22 1884 Presidential Election
23 Cleveland s First Term The Veto Governor from New York. First Democratic elected since A public office is a public trust! His laissez-faire presidency: Opposed bills to assist the poor as well as the rich. Vetoed over 200 special pension bills for Civil War veterans!
24 Bravo, Señor Clevelando!
25 The Tariff Issue After the Civil War, Congress raised tariffs to protect new US industries. Big business wanted to continue this; consumers did not tariffs earned the US $100 mil. in surplus! Mugwumps opposed it WHY??? President Cleveland s view on tariffs???? Tariffs became a major issue in the 1888 presidential election.
26 Filing the Rough Edges Tariff of 1888
27 1888 Presidential Election Grover Cleveland (DEM) Benjamin Harrison * (REP)
28 Coming Out for Harrison
29 The Smallest Specimen Yet
30 1888 Presidential Election
31 Disposing the Surplus
32 Changing Public Opinion Americans wanted the federal govt. to deal with growing soc. & eco. problems & to curb the power of the trusts: Interstate Commerce Act 1887 Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 McKinley Tariff 1890 Based on the theory that prosperity flowed directly from protectionism. Increased already high rates another 4%! Rep. Party suffered big losses in 1890 (even McKinley lost his House seat!).
33 1892 Presidential Election Grover Cleveland again! * (DEM) Benjamin Harrison (REP)
34 1892 Presidential Election
35 Cleveland Loses Support Fast! The only President to serve two nonconsecutive terms. Blamed for the 1893 Panic. Defended the gold standard. Used federal troops in the 1894 Pullman strike. Refused to sign the Wilson-Gorman Tariff of Repealed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
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