This book comes from this link. Again Congress had refused to adjourn over for the holidays. The leaders of the Administration forces were unwilling to close their eyes, even for needful sleep, and went

This book comes from this link. source When the last embers of the great conflagration of the Rebellion had been smothered out with tears for the Lost Cause, a prophecy had gone up that the mighty North,

This book comes from this link. source The Fateful year of '99’ upon its coming in, found the Republic of Washington in dire and dangerous straits. The commercial and industrial boom had spent its force,

This book comes from this link. source This first year of the Silver Administration was scarcely rounded up, ere there began to be ugly rumors that the Government was no longer able to hold the white metal

This book comes from this link. source When a Republican member of the House arose to move the usual adjournment for the holidays, there was a storm of hisses and cries of No, no !” Said the leader of

This book comes from this link. source of pic By proclamation bearing date the 5th day of March 1897, the President summoned both houses of Congress to convene in extraordinary session for the consideration

This book comes from this link. There had been a strange prophecy put forth by some one, and it had made its way into the daily journals, and had been laughingly or seriously commented upon, according

This book comes from this link. source The pens of many writers would not suffice to describe with anything like historical fullness and precision, the wild scenes of excitement which, on the morning after

This book comes from this link. source Great as has been the world’s wonder at the uprising of Mr. Bryan’s struggling masses ”in the city by the sea, and the narrow escape of its magnificent homes from

This book comes from this link. source That was a terrible night for the great City of New York — the night of Tuesday, November 3rd, 1896. The city staggered under the blow like a huge ocean liner which