Articles liés à The Return of the Democratic Party to Power in 1884
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Old Parties and New Issues On March 4, 1885, Grover Cleveland took up his duties as President of the United States, the first Democrat to be trusted with that responsibility since James Buchanan laid it down in the troubled days of March, 1861. In 1861 the Democrats had gone out of power on a great issue. They came back to power not on another great issue but because the lack of issues between them and their opponents made the character of the candidates the determining factor for a large number of voters. The Republican party came int Oexistence with the definite purpose of preventing the extension of slavery, at a time when the Democratic party was committed to permitting or actually encouraging its extension. During the war the Republican party, or Union party as it was called in 1864, became the win the war party, while the Democrats protested against the exercise of extra-constitutional powers by the federal government and declared that justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efiforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the States. At the close of the war there was another realignment on the question of reconstruction. The Republicans, now tinder the control of the radical faction, put through their plan of military reconstruction and negro suffrage, while the 1D emocratic Platform 1864, Stanwood, History of the Presidency,
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