A Patriots History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror by Larry Schweikart & Michael Allen

Author:Larry Schweikart & Michael Allen [Schweikart, Larry & Allen, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9781595230010
Google: 23BxQgAACAAJ
Publisher: Sentinel
Published: 2004-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Although a McKinley presidential boomlet had occurred in 1892, it was not yet his time. In 1896,

however, he was ready for a full run at the White House, aided by Marcus A. Hannah, his political

mentor.23 Mounting a “front porch” campaign, in which people literally traveled to his house to

hear his ideas, McKinley spoke to 750,000 people from thirty states. His denuded yard, tramped

over by so many feet, became a sea of mud in the rain. But his work was effective, and the lag

between William Jennings Bryan’s burst of energy following the “Cross of Gold” speech and the

election provided just enough cushion for the Republican to win. The closeness of the electoral

vote, 271 to 176, and the popular vote, 7.1 million to 6.5 million, between two candidates with such

strikingly opposite views, reflected the sharp divisions within the country over the money question,

the tariff, and, most recently, the depression and its cures. McKinley did not get a single electoral

vote south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and only won California, North Dakota, Iowa, and Oregon

out of the entire West.

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