A History of the Presidency: From 1897 to 1909 (Classic Reprint) - new book

Excerpt from A History of the Presidency: From 1897 to 1909

Nevertheless the silver question was not the sole issue in the canvass of 1896,and the importance of the tariff issue must not be overlooked. In the far Western States, where the sen timent was almost unanimous in favor of free silver, the Repub lican campaign was conducted on the issue of Protection, as against the wilson-gorman tariff, and its free wool feature. It was not a successful campaign, so far as electoral votes were concerned, but it served to preserve a nucleus around which the temporary deserters clustered, at the next election.

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