Identifier: reviewofreviewsw06newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tration who re-tired some forty thousand Republican postmastersand filled their places with new men of his ownpolitical faith. Personally, Mr. Stevenson is vouched THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 9 for as an amiable and agreeable jj^entleinen. It hadbeen expected that ex-Governor Crray, of Indiana,would be imt on the ticket with Mr. Cleveland, bntthe anti-Cleveland elements in the convention chose tosupport an Illinois candidate. Among Democratsin general Mr. Stevensons nomination is very wellreceived. What might ^^^ Peoples party, on the eve of its as-have been sembling at Omaha, announced its inten-at Omaha, ^-^j^ ^^ offer the country a genuine sensa-tion and to lift the political situation well out oftraditional ruts, by nominating Judge Walter Q.Gresham for the Presidency. Judge Gresham is anIndiana Republican of great prominence. He was adistinguished general of volunteers in the civil war.and afterward was made a United States judge inhis own State. President Arthur, having appointed
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/n HON. JAMES G. FIELD, OF VIRGINIA,Peoples Party Nominee for Vice-Presidency. him Postmaster-General and afterward Secretary ofthe Treasury, restored him to the federal bench againbefore retiring from the White House. In 1884 and1888 Judge Gresham was strongly urged as the mostavailable Republican candidate for the Presidency.Several decisions and actions in his judicial capacityaffecting the management and control of railways,notably his dealings with the Wabash system, havegiven him a great popularity with the so-called anti-monopolists. If a man of Judge Greshams recordand standing could have been induced to leave hisold party and assume the r61e of a Moses for the newmovement, there would have been a great stirring upof dry bones. The Peoples party would have carriedseveral States, and would have upset all calculationsin a number of others. The Omaha gathering wasraised to the highest pitch of expectancy by assurances

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