Henderson, John B.—Continued
from, 212; to, 214; VI., as
Presidential nominee, 202; feeble
health prevents acceptance of
nomination, 203
Hendricks, Thomas A., III., 264, 279; IV., estimate of the character of, 258
Herbert, Hilary A., V., 218
Hewitt, Abram S., IV., 349, 353; to, 461; from, 462; to, 482; Schurz's letter to, commended by Curtis, 490; VI., 277; eulogized by Schurz, 298
Hexamer, Major, I., 181
Hickman, David H., II., 26
Hickney, Lieutenant, I., 293
Higgins, Eugene, IV., 367; V., 178
Higginson, Thomas W., IV., from, 149; to, 150; from, 181; to, 182
Hill and Hillism, V., 232; Tammany's fight for supremacy, 233; deserted by Croker, 234; nominates Hill for governor, 235; his political record, 237; what his election would signify, 242
Hill, David B., IV., 410, 411, 492; V., 122, 141, 157, 163, 225
Hinman (Rev.), S. D., IV., 53
Hitchcock, IV., 83
Hoag, J. W., IV., to, 210
Hoar, George P., III., 293; IV., 44; to, 276; Schurz's letter to, may be used in campaign, 285; V., from, 527; to, 528; to, 530; VI., 38, 285; and the Philippines, 292, 293, 302
Hoar, Sherman, V., 125, 126
Hobart, Vice-President, VI., asks Schurz to canvass for McKinley, 268
Hogan, John T., I., 297
Holden, Governor (North Carolina), I., 258
Holleben, von, Ambassador, VI., 37
Holmes, Governor (Mississippi Territory), II., 231
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, I., 47
Holst, von, matter, IV., 181
Homestead bill, I., 144, 145
Honest money, III., 161; disclaims intention of influencing any one's vote for the next President, 162; inflation to be made an issue in Ohio, 163; adherent to fundamental principles, 165; tenets of the Democratic party, 167; its platform an abandonment of its principles, 168; progressive inflation, 169; Governor Allen's money theory, 170; increasing volume of currency decreases its value, 173; limitation of governmental power, 174; inflation, a source of corruption and profligacy, 179; crisis of 1873, 185; France as an example, 186; national banks, 188; how the rich man profits by inflation, 191; the laboring man and inflation, 193; laboring men the creditors of the country, 199; speculators advocates of inflation, 201; first issue of greenbacks, 203; what the crises of 1837 and 1857 should teach, 205; resumption of specie payment, 208; best in each party should unite, 213; Ohio may kill the inflation movement, 215; see from A. Taft, III., 216, also from and to, A. T. Wickoff, III., 217; also The Currency Question, III., 422
Honest money and honesty, V., 276; depression of 1896 charged to demonetization of silver, 277; resumption of specie payment and circulation of metallic money, 279; trouble in maintaining legal ratio between gold and silver, 280; millionaire silver-mine owners influence legislation, 283; supply greater than demand, prices decline, 285; monthly purchase of silver, and issue of Treasury notes, 287; how the greenback was brought back to par, 289; the meaning of free coinage and 16 to 1, 291; free silver and the wage-earner, 305; civilization and the laboring man, 309; the “debtor class,” 310; how Bryan's policy would affect the West and South, 314; fiat money the logical outcome of free silver, 316; what the inevitable Bryan panic would teach, 316, 317; free-silver agitators and the American people, 321-327; answer of the American people on election day, 328
Honest Money League, American, V., 276 n.