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Rh 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.