n of the wildcat
currency was exhaustive, and he pictured the evils that must flow
from its resumption in forcible and convincing terms."

On the 25th of October, Senator W. P. Frye, of Maine, and I spoke
at Schlitz's amphitheater in Milwaukee. The notice had been brief,
but the attendance was large. The audience was composed chiefly
of German Republicans. Frye and I had divided the topics between
us. He spoke on the tariff and I on good money. On the latter
subject the people before us were united for a sound currency, all
as good as gold and plenty of it. I made my speech first, but Frye
made a better one on the tariff, upon which they were somewhat
divided. Such a division of opinion is an advantage to the speaker,
and Frye availed himself of it by making an excellent and interesting
address. The speeches were well reported the next morning, an
evidence of enterprise I did not expect.

After my return from Milwaukee to Ohio I made several speeches
prior to the election. While the Republican meetings were large,
I could not overlook the fact that the Democratic meetings were
also large, that the personality of Cleveland, and his autocratic
command of his party, kept it in line, while his firm adherence to
sound financial principles, in spite of the tendency of his party
to free coinage and irredeemable money, commanded the respect of
business men, and secured him the "silent vote" of thousands of
Republicans.

In Ohio the Republican party barely escaped defeat, the head of
the ticket, Samuel M. Taylor, the candidate for secretary of state,
receiving but 1,089 plurality. The national ticket did not fare
quite so well, receiving but 1,072 plurality, and, for the first
time since the election of Franklin Pierce in 1852, Ohio cast one
Democratic electoral vote, the remaining twenty-two being Republican.
Cleveland and Stevenson received 277 electoral votes, and Harrison
and Reid 145.

Harrison did not receive the electoral vote of any one of the
southern states that were mainly responsible for his nomination,
nor any one of the doubtful states in the north that contributed
to his result, including Indiana, where he resided, and which went
Democratic by a plurality of 7,125.

As a rule the states that voted in the convention for Blaine and
McKinley gave Harrison their electoral vote. The Democrats elected
220 Members of the House of Representatives, the Republicans 126
and the People's party 8.

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