Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...bill carries out the will of the country as expressed in 1888. 1. It is in harmony with the principles of the last Republican Platform; Tribune Almanac, '89. 2. It fulfills the pledges made by Harrison and his supporters in the campaign...
Best general references: Forum, May 1890, p. 243 et seq; Schurz in Boston Post, Oct. 21, 1890; Republican platform of 1888, in Stanwood's Presidential Elections...
...foreign policy has been faulty in a. The fisheries question: Forum IX, 243; Republican platform, 1888; Fortnightly Review, Vol. 53, pp. 741; Belford's Magazine, April. 1889. b. The un-American Samoan Pollcy; Nation, Jan. 31, 1889; Feb. 7, 1889; Century, XV, 945, et seq. c. The seal fisheries in Behring Sea; Nation, March 28, 1889; Forum Nov. 1889; New England Magazine, Jan, 1890; pp. 554 et seq. Wm. Everett, Boston Post, Sept. 27, 1890. d. The impracticable reciprocity scheme; Forum IX, 250; Nation...
...Pike, Prostrate State pp. 63 et seq. b. As to the Silver Bill, an unstable compromise; D. A. Wells in Nation, July 3, 1890; No. Am. Review, Vol. 151, p. 344 et seq; Political Science Quarterly, IV, 615, et seq, Dec. 1889. c. As to the tariff reform; Republican Platform; N. E. Tariff Reform League in Boston Herald, Oct. 27, 1890; Schurz address, Boston Post, Oct. 21, 1890. 1. Tariff legislation has been almost entirely for the benefit of a few rich corporations; Butterworth's speech, Boston Herald, May 13, 1890; Wanamaker's advertisement in public papers during October...
...republican platform of 1888. made the following pledges: Tribune Almanac, 1889; a. To revise the tariff on protective principles. b. To legislate in the interest of pure elections. c. To facilitate the admission of new States. d. To enact a more generous pension...