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POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE A

Origins of the Term: Origins of the Term: Mark Twain’s The Gilded Age(1873)

A Two- Party Stalemate

Intense Voter Loyalty to the Two Major Political Parties

Party Support in the Late 1800s REPUBLICANDEMOCRAT African-AmericansWhite Southerners Northern ProtestantsCatholics Old WASPs (Nativist) Recent Immigrants Most of Middle ClassUrban Workers (pro-labor) Pro - BusinessMost Farmers TemperancePersonal Freedom

Laissez-Faire Federal Govt.  From , federal govt. did very little. Its main duties:  Deliver the mail  Maintain a national military  Collect taxes & tariffs  Conduct a foreign policy  Exception: administer the annual Civil War veterans’ pension

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 federal govt employees.  ,000 federal employees

Rutherford B. Hayes

1880 Presidential Election: Republicans Half BreedsStalwarts Sen. James G. Blaine Sen. Roscoe Conkling (Maine) (New York) James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur (VP) COMPROMISE

James G. Blaine the "Plumed Knight" ( ) Copyright 1997 State Historical Society of Wisconsin

James A Garfield

Presidential Election of 1880

Garfield’s Assassination

Charles Guiteau: “ I Am a Stalwart, and Arthur is President now!”

Chester A. Arthur 1882

Civil Service Reform

Civil service reform: Pendleton Act (1883)

Republican “Mugwumps” Reformers who would not re-nominate Chester A. Arthur. Support Cleveland in Reform to them: create a disinterested, impartial gov’t run by an educated elite like themselves. Social Darwinists; support laissez-faire gov’t. Favoritism & the spoils system seen as inappropriate gov’t intervention in society. Their target was political corruption, not social or economic reform.

1884 Presidential Election Grover Cleveland James G. Blaine (DEM. – NY) (REP. - MAINE)

1884 Presidential Election

Grover Cleveland

Cleveland’s First Term  The “Veto Governor” from New York  First Democrat elected since 1856  “ A public office is a public trust!”  “Laissez-faire” presidency:  Opposed bills to assist the poor as well as the rich  Vetoed over 200 special pension bills for Civil War veterans

The Tariff Issue  After the Civil War, Congress raised tariffs to protect new US industries.  Big business supported ; consumers opposed  tariffs = $100 million in revenue!  Mugwumps opposed it (WHY?)  President Cleveland’s view on tariffs????  Major issue in the 1888 presidential election

1888 Presidential Election Grover ClevelandBenjamin Harrison (DEM - NY)(REP - IN)

1888 Presidential Election

1892 Presidential Election Grover ClevelandBenjamin Harrison (DEM - NY)(REP - IN)

1892 Presidential Election

Cleveland Loses Support Quickly  Only President to serve 2 non-consecutive terms  Blamed for the Panic of 1893  Defended the gold standard  Used federal troops in the 1894 Pullman strike  Refused to sign the Wilson-Gorman Tariff ( 1894)  Repealed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act

The Silver Issue  “ Crime of ’73”- govt. stopped coining silver  Bland-Allison Act (1878) - limited silver coinage to $2-$4 mil. per mo. (based on 16:1 ratio of silver to gold)  Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)  US Treasury must purchase $4.5 mil. oz. silver a month.  Govt. deposited most silver in the US Treasury rather than circulation.

The Sherman Silver Purchase Act