For nearly
four years more Andrew Johnson had a bitter quarrel with
the Republican leaders in both Houses of Congress. For six
years the Democrats controlled the Senate. For sixteen years
they controlled the House of Representatives. There is left
on the Statute Book no trace of any Democratic legislation
during this whole period except the repeal of the laws intended
to secure honest elections. The two Administrations of President
Cleveland are remembered by the business men and the laboring
men of the country only as terrible nightmares. Whatever
has been accomplished in this period, which seems to me the
most brilliant period in legislative history of any country
in the world, has been accomplished by the Republican Party
over Democratic opposition. The failure to secure honest
National elections and the political and civil rights of the
colored people is the failure of the Republican Party and
the success of its Democratic antagonist. With that exception,
to all the problems which confronted the country in 1869 the
Republican Party has given a simple, wise, final and most
successful solution.
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