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Title: America, from discovery in 1942 to the present time
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James P(enny) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mansfield, Ohio, Estill & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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plus accumulationsin the Treasury; (8) civil appointments, clerical in kind, shouldbe based on moral, intellectual and physical qualification andnot on party service; (9) suffrage should extend to all personsof suitable age who are mentally and morally qualified for anintelligent ballot; (10) polygamy should be abolished and uni-form marriage laws be established; (ii) combinations for con-trolling capital and increasing products for popular consumptionshould be prohibited; (12) the Sabbath should be preserved anddefended; (13) arbitration should be the means for settling allnational differences, disputes between employers and employes ;(14) abolition of the saloon would remove the burdens fromlabor and promote labor reform; (15) no monopoly in land;public land for actual settlers only; men and women shouldreceive equal wages for equal work; (16) immigration of con-victs aud dependents should be prohibited, none but citizens ofthe United States should vote in any State; (17) full party
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706 PRESIDENTS AND ADMINISTRATIONS. fellowship invited, of all who recognize prohibition to be adominant issue. The United Labor party placed R. H. Cowdrey in the fieldas its candidate for President, and W. H. T. Wakefield, forVice-President. The Greenbackers and Labor Reformers nomi-nated Alson J. Streeter for President, and Charles E. Cummingsfor Vice-President. The American party met in Washingtonon August 15 and on the i6th nominated James L. Curtis forPresident, and Judge N. Green for Vice-President. Belva A.Lockwood ran for President on the ticket of the Equal Rightsparty. The campaign was largely one of discussion, and free fromthe bitter personalism which characterized that of 1884. Theissue of Tariff vs. Free Trade was never so sharply definednor more dispassionately handled. It was recognized at a veryearly day that the fighting ground embraced the four doubtfulStates of the North, to wit. New York, Indiana, Connecticutand New Jersey, though the Democrats laid claim to one o

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