Remembers a dead friend - 'The Nation's' sarcasm - Plan to exonerate all Eighteen-seventy-four opens darkly - Grant's blunders on Chief Justiceship Recoups popularity by veto of inflation bill - Silk-workers demand tariff re- duction Miners mobilize against organized wealth Poverty a matter for the police - Police club a peaceful mass meeting - What men were living on - 'The Prostrate State' appears The South's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' The Beecher-Tilton trial - Death of Sumner - His Civil Rights Bill fails - Denounced by Parson Brownlow - Lamar's famous tribute - Blaine's tears - The Sanborn contracts - Ben Butler's connection - Secre- tary of Treasury resigns to escape impeachment - Is made a Judge - Moses' saturnalia in South Carolina - Mode of living - Scenes in his home - Ruin of the taxpayers The Taxpayers' Convention - Issues a public appeal - Its committee goes to Washington - Congress ignores it - Rebuked by Grant - Republican State Committee replies to taxpayers - Fourteen of twenty-four bribe-takers - Courteously received at the White House - A 'bloody-shirt' campaign in the North Morton instructs party press in Indiana - Alabama determines to be free A bitter campaign there - The Hawley-Hays lie exposed The Government bacon scandal - Federal officials try to terrorize Democrats - Alabama wins over the carpetbaggers - The fight in Arkansas - The looting Congressional committee finds McEnery, Democrat, elected Governor - A dual XXII. THE FALLING OF ROTTEN FRUIT Election of Michael Kerr - His character - Nast's attacks on him - The 461 Belknap - Asks Marsh to commit perjury - Belknap hears of exposure - He XXIII. THE YEAR OF THE CENTENNIAL Blaine collapses - Republican candidates - Blaine's magnetic personality and popularity - Not injured by revelations - The Cincinnati Convention Hatred of Bristow Mrs. Blaine's view - Ingersoll's nominating speech Hayes's nomination Nomination of Tilden - The platforms - Alignments of Liberals - Trumbull - Julian Charles Francis Adams - Schurz goes to Hayes - Pulitzer's excoriation - Godkin of 'The Nation' Bryant Chandler and slush funds Portrait of Tilden Character of Hayes - Early prospects - Tilden's activities Mystery of Gramercy Park Hayes warned Alarm over Indiana - The money question - Republican strategy The 'bloody shirt' unfurled Religious prejudices The American Alliance - Ingersoll - His speeches At Bangor - At Cooper Union At Indianapolis - At Chicago - Misrepresent- ing Vance - Voorhees protests Mark Twain's blunder - Alarm over the South - Hayes's letters - In North Carolina Character and career of Vance His debates with Judge Settle - The two men compared - Amazing meetings The State aflame - Torchlight processions through woods Uneasiness in The highways of South Carolina - The case of Chamberlain - Turns reformer Is rebuked by Morton - Chamberlain makes terms with 'Honest' John Patter- son - Fusion or Straight-out General Gary regular Democratic ticket - Intensive organization - The Hamburg riot- Loses Chamberlain Democratic endorsement - Waves 'bloody shirt' - Grant's campaign document on South Carolina - Wade Hampton Chamberlain forced to divide time - Effect - At Edgefield - At Abbeville - Tilden ignores Hampton's letter - Hampton in the saddle - Wild enthusiasm - Portrait of Hampton - The Chamberlain ticket - Patterson's promise for Grant - Reliance of carpetbaggers - Negro Democrats Mob them at Charleston - Democratic plan of campaign - Opposing views among Democrats on cultivation of blacks Negro Democratic clubs Hampton to the negroes Chamberlain refuses to debate - A whole people march and ride - Hampton's speeches - The Red Shirts- Pictured on the march A day of prayer in the churches - The Edge- field riots Used for political purposes - At Cainhoy - Soldiers break in on Hampton meeting - Hampton holds his people down - Martial law people to submit' - Northern press on martial law - Politicians worried ing meeting at Charleston - Election day - 'By God, sir, I will not do it.' Visiting statesmen sent South - The claim in Louisiana - Notorious corruption MANUSCRIPTS, BOOKS, AND NEWSPAPERS CONSULTED AND CITED 541 INDEX 549- |