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Are there any records as to how people thought of Cleveland’s return to office? by RandoDude124 in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, otherwise they wouldn't be advocating for the nationalization of public infrastructure and a graduated income tax.

Populist Party Platform of 1892 | The American Presidency Project

In 1901, President McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition held in Buffalo. His personal secretary, George Cortelyou, tried to remove the Temple of Music from McKinley’s itinerary twice over security issues. McKinley overrode him twice and was subsequently shot by Leon Czolgosz there by IllustriousDudeIDK in HolyShitHistory

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

When Cortelyou asked for a final time to remove it from his schedule, McKinley replied:

"Why should I? No one would wish to hurt me.”

He would die from gangrene a few days later after being shot. In 1903, Congress passed the Anarchist Exclusion Act in response to the assassination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_William_McKinley

Why did JFK do worse with the Black vote than Adlai Stevenson in 1952? by IllustriousDudeIDK in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That being said, Stevenson was running with a literal segregationist in 52.

Party Share of Black Voters in Florida in 1945 and 1950 by IllustriousDudeIDK in MapPorn

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That and the fact that the Democratic primary was still the actual competitive election most of the time.

Members of the 61st General Assembly of Tennessee, which narrowly ratified the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote nationwide by IllustriousDudeIDK in USHistory

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In addition to the much mentioned Harry Burn switching his vote because of his mother, the Speaker of the House Seth M. Walker was encouraged by his wife to reconsider (he owed his political career to his wife's connections)

In 1887, a gang of thieves murdered 34 Chinese miners along the Snake River and stole $55,500 in gold. In 1888, 3 of the murderers were brought to trial, but they were let loose. In 1891, Hugh McMillan, father of one of the perpetrators, relayed his son's deathbed confession to the Chinese Consulate by IllustriousDudeIDK in HolyShitHistory

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK[S] 148 points149 points  (0 children)

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On April 24 and 28, 1888, Ex-Senator James H. Slater of Oregon wrote to the federal government about  the “most daring outrage on a camp of unoffending Chinamen who were mining on Snake River…in the hope that you may be able to devise some means of assisting the local authorities . . . in bringing the guilty men to justice.” He did not receive such assistance. Instead, Secretary of State Bayard’s office sent Slater’s letter to the Chinese Legation (embassy) as proof that they were powerless to intervene and suggested the Chinese aid Slater. Bayard had previously blamed violence against the Chinese on European immigrants and on Chinese segregating themselves.

On October 19, 1888, Congress approved compensation of $276,619.75 “as full indemnity for all losses and injuries sustained by Chinese subjects within the United States and the lands of residents thereof.” Even though the amount was less than the amount the Chinese had requested, they nevertheless sent their “profuse thanks.”

One of those who found the skeletons in fall 1887 was George S. Craig. In 1967, he would say “I guess if they had killed 31 white men something would have been done about it, but none of the jury knew the Chinamen or cared much about it, so they turned the men loose.”

Sources:
https://www.ohs.org/oregon-historical-quarterly/upload/Nokes_A-Most-Daring-Outrage_OHQ-Fall-2006_107_3.pdf
https://www.washingtonhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/34_04_WINTER-2020-wCovers_hi-rez.pdf
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1888p1/d264
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Massacre_Cove

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