AKERS, W. J. 114; 117; 273.
Andrews, Horace E., 86; 87; 88; 243; 251; 252; 253; 254; 255; 256; 259; 260; 261; 277; 287.
Armstrong, W. W. 61.
BAKER, Newton D. 126; 139; 172; 173; 193; 194; 216; 247; 256; 257; 258; 269; 289; 290; 291; 295; 299; 310; 311.
Barber Asphalt Company, 191.
Beacon, M. W. 163; 217; 242
Beaver, James A., 42.
Bemis, Edward W.., 132; 139;156; 180-181.
Big Con, 86; 159; 190. (See Concon)
Bigelow, Herbert S., 196; 299; 313.
Blue Spring, Ky., J's birthplace, i.
Bly, Yankee, 123.
Bowman, Thomas, 68.
Boyd, William H., 207; 208;209;273.
Breckinridge, John C., 4.
Briggs, George A., 307.
Booklyn, street railways, 98-107.
Bryan, William Jennings, xvii; 54;65;108;200.
Buckeye Club, 168.
Bucklin, James W., 307; 308.
Burton, Theodore E., xvi; 61; 62; 74; 114; 116; nominated for mayor, 267; quoted, 268; his platform quoted, 269; 270; 271; 273; defeated 274-275.
CABLE, Ben T., 70; 72; 223.
Cadwallader, Starr, 170.
Cambria Iron Company, 29; 36.
Carnegie, Andrew. 77.
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Chamber of Commerce (Cleveland), xxiii; 75; 90; 113; 116; 171; 267; 288; 312; 313.
Charity, menace of, 28; fund for Johnstown sufferers, difficulty in disposing of, 41-42; responsibility for causes that call for, 43-44.
Chicago Journal, quoted, 243-246.
Choate, Joseph H., 98.
Churchman, F. M., 16.
Cincinnati Traction Company, 238.
Citizens Savings & Trust Company, 262.
Clark, Samuel B., 98.
Clarke, John H., 200; 202.
Cleveland Belt & Terminal Railroad, 134.
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, 192; 216; 217.
Cleveland Electric Street Railway Company, 164; 188; 209; 235; 238; 239; 243; 248; 251; 252; 253; 254; 255; 256; 259; 260;261; 263; 264; 274; 276; 278; 279; 281; 283. (See Concon)
Cleveland, Grover, 70; 73.
Cleveland Railway Company, 279; 283; 284; 286; 287.
Cleveland Terminal & Valley Railroad, 133.
Coffinberry, Henry D., 172.
Coleman, Dullie, J's aunt, 10.
Coleman, Thomas, J's uncle, 9.
Columbus Street Railway Company, 156.
Colver, W. B., 224; 240; 246.
Concon, 86; 190; 221; 223; 224; 225; 227; 230; 232; 233; 237; 240; 241; 242; 247; 250; 256; 257; 258; 259; 262; 264; 266; 275; 277; 278; 282; 283.
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Cooke, Edmund Vance, 299.
Cooley, Harris R., 109; 110; 172; 173-179; 183; 193; 269; 272; 310; 313.
Cox, "Boss," 164; 185.
Craig, William, 130; 133; 136; 137.
Crawford, W. J., 129.
Currency, J's substitute for during panic, 45-46; need of improved laws relating to, 47.
DAHL, Gerhard, 291.
Dalzell, John, 76; 77.
Davenport, Homer, 271; 272.
Davies, Secretary, 256.
Daykin, Dr., 214-215.
De Leon, Daniel, 52.
Depositors Savings & Trust Company, xxi; brief history of, 265.
Dick, Charles S., 200.
District of Columbia, report of house committee on reforms in assessment and taxation, 65-67.
Doty, Edward W., 308.
Dunne, Edward F.; 239; 243; 244; 245; 246; 256.
Du Pont, A. B., 92; 224; 239; 240; 248; 251; 252; 253; 254; 260; 261; 262; 280; 307; 311.
Du Pont, Alfred V., 9; 13; 31; 32; 37; 38.
Du Pont, Bidermann, 9; 11; 12; 14; 92.
Du Pont, (E. I.), de Nemours Powder Company, 9.
Du Pont, Pierre Samuel, 9.
Earhart, W. J., 197.
East Ohio Gas Company, 213; 214.
Eggleston, W. G., 307; 310.
Electric Traction Weekly, quoted, 284.
ENGLISH, William H., 13; 14; 15; 28.
Everett, Henry, 23; 86; 87; 88; 91; 92; 93; 94.
FARLEY, John, 113; 118.
Federal Steel Company, 90.
Fels Fund Commission, 306; 307; 308.
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Fels, Joseph, 297; 298; 299; 300; 310. (See Fels Fund Commission.)
Fels, Mrs. Joseph, 297; J's tribute to, 297; 298.
Fithian, George W., 68.
Ford, Judge, 242.
Forest City Railway Company, 222; 224; 227; 228; 230; 234; 235; 237; 238; 240; 241; 242; 246; 248; 261; 262; 263; 279; 283; 286; 287.
Free Trade, J. declares his belief in, 60; 71; 73; 76; 78-81.
Fuller, Arthur, 308.
GARFIELD, Corrupt Practices Act, 110-111.
Garfield, James A., 267; 268.
General Electric company, in relation to "Slip-Slide,", xxxi; xxxii.
George, Henry, dedication, xxvi; 8; 9; 28; 49; 50; J;s first interview with, 51; death of, 52; 53; quoted, 54; 55; quoted, 56; quoted; 57; quoted, 58; 59; 60; 63; 64; 73; 76; 78; 107; 108; 122; 298; 299; 300; 301; 302; 307; 309; 313.
George, Henry, jr., 299.
George, Richard, 299.
Goff, F. H., 190; 277; 278; 279; 282; 283; 288.
Goulder, Harvey D., 171; 172; 273.
"Greased lighting." (See "Slip-Slide")
Green, Albert, 187; 188; 189.
Grief, William, 224.
Guilbert, State Auditor, 199.
HALL, Bolton, 299.
Hampton's Magazine, 304.
Hanna, Marcus A., 17-25; 28; 86; 88; 114; 115; 164; 185; 189; 191; 194; 196; 198; 201; quoted, 202; 203; 228.Hardie, J. Keir, 298.
Harmon, Judson, xvi; 305; quoted, 306.
Harriman, Edward H., 102; 103.
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Harrison, Benjamin, 64.
Harter, Representative. 63.
Haserodt, E. B., 269; 293.
Hauser, Elizabeth J., editor. (See acknowledgment; introduction; last chapter.)
Henna, Dr., 52.
Herrick, Myron T., 134; 135; 200; 201; 206.
Hill, William P., 307.
Hindman, T. C., 2; 4.
Hodge, O. J., 62.
Hoefgen, J. B., 160; 161; grant to declared invalid, 162.
Hogsett, Thomas, 192; 194.
Howe, Frederic C., quoted, xxiv; 121; 204; 216; 224; 299.
INGERSOLL, Robert G., 74-75.
Initiative, xvi; 119; 199.
Injunctions, record of in street railroad fight, 164-166.
Ivins, William M., 57; quoted, 58.
JOHNSON, Albert, brother of J., 3; 57; 86; 91; 98.
Johnson, Albert W., father of J., I; service to confederacy, 2; quarrels with Gen. Hindman and joins Gen. Breckinridge, 4; sympathy with North, 5; attempts to operate cotton plantation in Arkansas with free labor, 7; engages in business in Evansville, Ind., 7; superintendent of street railroad in Louisville, 11; chief of police, 11; president of street railway company in Indianapolis, 14; shares in profits of sale, 31; friendship with Henry George, 55; 123.
Johnson, Maggie J., J marries, 13.
Johnson, Richard M., 59.
Johnson, Tom L., advocates initiative, referendum, recall, short ballot, woman suffrage, juster laws on taxation; municipal ownership and city home rule, xvi; interview with President Roosevelt, xvii; conversation with W. J. Bryan, xvii; applied merit system to city departments, |
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xviii; summary of improvements and reforms while mayor of Cleveland, xviii, xix; hissed in Brooklyn, xx; 56; manner and method before an audience, xx, xxi; accedes to strikers' demands, xxiii; favors labor unions, xxii; invents pay-enter fare-box, xxii; enmity of newspapers, xxiii; xxic; a friend's estimate of, xxcii, xxciii; "Slip-Slide," xxcii-xxxii; defines Privilege, xxxv; discusses monopolies, xxxc-xxxcii; judiciary and Privilege, xxxciii; public ownership of utilities, xxxix; parentage, birthplace, early recollections, I; family moves to Little Rock, Ark., 3; to Atlanta and Milledgeville, Ga., 4; to Corner Springs, Withville, Natural Bridge and Staunton, VA., 5; typhoid fever, 5; first business venture, 5, 6; moves to Louisville, Ky., 6; early instruction, 6; moves to Arkansas, thence to Evansville, Ind., 7; return to Kentucky, 7; freedom from class feeling, 7; enters street railraod business in Louisville, 8; lives with Coleman family, 9; duties, learns bookkeeping, invents fare-box, 10; secretary of company, superintendent of road, 11; marries, 13; purchases control of Indianapolis street railways, 13; litigation and disputes with Wm. H. English, 13-16; bids for street railway grant in Cleveland, 17; buys Pearl street line, introduces transfer system, 19; contests with M. A. Hanna, 17-25; buys Jennings ave. line, 22; gets grant to build east side lines, 24; refuses Hanna's offer of partnership, 25; on private as against municipal ownership of public utilities, 25-27; goes into business at Johnstown, 29; establishes plant, 31; profits on
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sale of street railroad, 31; ventures in St. Louis and Brooklyn, 32; builds rolling-mill, 33; builds steam railroad and buys street railways in Johnstown, 34; removes bodies of victims of flood, 38; discusses free street cars, 39-40; blames Privilege for Johnstown flood, 43-44; substitute for currency during panic, 45-46; need for better currency system, 47; reads Social Problems and Progress and Poverty, 49; urged by Henry George to enter politics, 51; at George's death-bed, 52; first attempts at public speaking, 53; advocates change in Ohio tax laws, 54; backs Cleveland Recorder, 54; suffers in 1897 panic, 54; aids The Public, 55: manages George's campaign for mayor of New York in 1897, 56; nominated for congress, 59; declares belief in free trade, 60; defeated by Burton, 61; again nominated, 61; debates with Burton, 62; elected, 62; again nominated and elected over O. J. Hodge, 62; votes for single tax bill, 63; approves "Reed rules," 63-64; acquaintance with Harrison, 64; with Bryan, 65; committee work in congress, 65; reform in assessment and taxation in District of Columbia, 65-67; distributes Protection of Free Trade at government expense, 68-70; delegate to national convention, 70; visit to Grover Cleveland, 73; predicts defeat of Democratic party; defeated for reelection by Burton, 74; replies to charge of insincerity, 75; credit to George for letter to Cleveland cloak-makers, 78; the letter, 79-81; tent meetings, 82-84; meets Peter Witt, 84-86; the Cleveland street railway situation, 86-88; sells street railway interests |
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88; his social philosophy alienates friends, 89; expands scopes of Johnstown mill, builds mill at Lorain, 90; sells out, 90; builds street railroad Lorain to Elyria, 91; manages Detroit street railways, 91; rebuilds them, 92; convinced of practicability of three-cent fare, 95; friendship with Pingree, 95-97; manages Brooklyn street railways, 98; litigation, 98-99; gets grant for Brooklyn Bridge line, 102; Harriman suggests alliance, 103; sale of Brooklyn roads, 103-105; interview with R. T. Wilson, 106; takes steps to quit business, 106-107; determines to devote energies to advancement of George's principles, 107; trip to Europe, 108; delegate to national convention, 108; opposed to "16 to 1," 108; views on the money question, 108; nominated for mayor, 109-110; standards of political morality, 111; declines to bargain for support, 111-112; platform, 112; the campaign, 112-116; sues to prevent consummation of corrupt council's grant of lake front, 113; elected mayor, 115; sworn in, 17; secures repeal of lake front grant; 118; his first two orders, 120; organizes better element of council for good government and chooses cabinet, 121; institutes reforms, 122-125; establishes Tax School, 125; its purpose and accomplishments, 126-131; tax valuation of steam railroads, 132-144; taxation of public utilities, 145-147; home rule, 147-149; source of railroad's power and remedy for its abuse, 149-155; invited to Columbus, 156; offers to buy street railways there and give three-cent fare, 156; makes charge against Judge Summers,
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157; the three-cent fare fight in Cleveland and the more than fifty injunctions, 159-166; making men, 167-171; enmity of antagonized interests, 170-171; campaign of 1903; 170-172; elected over Goulder, 172; on Newton D. Baker, 173; on Harris R. Cooley, with outline of his accomplishment, 173-179; on William J. Springborn, 179-180; on Daniel E. Leslie, 180; on Edward W. Bemis, 180-181; on Fred Kohler, 181-184; quotation from address to new city council, 186-187; another step toward low fare, 187; destroys paving combine, 191; fight for municipal lighting plant, 192-194; reason for belief in municipal ownership, 194; State wide campaign for just taxation, 195-198; opposes renomination of Democratic legislators who violated pledges, 196-198; nominated for governor, 199; serves as police court judge, 200; campaign by automobile and in tent, 200-202; defeated, 203; measures fought for since enacted into law, 204; again elected mayor, 207; debates with Boyd, 208-209; advises street railway to build line without grant, 209; municipal ownership of street railroads, 211-212; types of legislators, 212-213; gas franchise fight, 213-216; method secondary consideration in securing people's rights, 216; municipal lighting plant and annexation of South Brooklyn, 216-218; public gambling, 219-220; the fight for low fare, 221-263; recognition of Mr. Cable's services, 223; organization of Municipal Traction Company, 224; contempt proceedings, 227-228; the monument he cared for, 236; motorman of first three-cent fare car, 238 |
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history of Depositors Savings & Trust co., 265; renominated for mayor, 269; invites Burton to debate issues, 269-270; Davenport's visit, 272; reelected, 274; proposes settlement of difficulties with street railway company, 276-277; chosen by council to represent city in negotiations, 277-278; street railway strike, 280-282; people's blunder, 283; comment on referendum, 283; protects Forest City stockholders' interests, 287; on the morality of newspapers, 288; defeated for reelection, 289; result of effort to correct taxation injustices, 291-292; conclusions, 292-294; quoted upon relinquishing office, 296; sickness and visits to New York, 296; trip to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fels, rules of personal conduct; public dinner; tribute to Mrs. Fels, 297; Continental tour; Glasgow reception; dinner at House of Parliament, 298; return to United States; reception and dinner in New York, 299; address quoted, 300-302; "abolish Privilege," 302; summer at Nantucket Island, 302-304; his reading, 303; decides to write story of Cleveland fight, 304; his reception by Cleveland audience, 305-306; attends meeting of Fels Fund Commission in New York, 306; account by Louis F. Post, 306-310; last public meeting, 310; interest in British politics, 311; guest of Nisi Prius club, 311; final attack and death, 312-313; funeral, public demonstration, interment, 313.
Johnson, Will, brother of J., 3.
Johnstown, Pa., 28; flood and period of readjustment, 34-42; responsibility for disaster, 43-44.
Jones, Bill, 36-37.
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Jones, Samuel M., 203; 206; 207.
Judiciary, Privilege's power over, xxxviii.
KIEFER, Daniel, 299; 307; 310.
Knappen, Judge, 284.
Kohl, Councilman, 214; 215.
Kohler, Fred, 123; 181-184; 218; 219.
LABOR Unions, J. favors, xxii; relation of to Cleveland street railway strike, 280-282.
La Follette, Robert M., 41.
Lamb, John E., 72.
Land Monopoly, the root of Privilege, xvii; xxxvi; 33.
Land Values, 298.
Lapp, Charles W., 171; 269.
Lavell, Pat, 37.
Lawson, Fenton, 307.
Leader, Cleveland, 114; 271; 272; quoted, 313.
Leslie, Daniel E., 172; 180, 269.
Leubuscher, Frederic C., 299.
Lewis, August, 299.
Lincoln, Abraham, 5.
Lindsey, Ben B., i.
Little con, 86; 116; 159; 190. (See Concon)
Loftin (Johnson), Helen, mother of J., I; J' s estimate of, 3; gives J. his early instruction, 6.
Lorain, Ohio, J. builds mill at, 90.
Low Fare Company, 242; 246; 247; 248; 262; 263; 266.
MCADOO, William Gibbs, 4.
McCabe, William, 52.
McClure, A. K., his book, Our Presidents and How We Make Them, quoted, 73.
McGlynn, Father, 52.
McGuire, Judge, 63.
McKinley Act, 71; 74.
Madigan, J. P., 172; 216.
Manhattan Single Tax Club, 299.
May Company, 120.
Merit System, xxvii.
Monopolies, J. discusses, xxxv-xxxvii. (See also Privilege.)
Morrell, D. J., 30-31.
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Moxham, Arthur J., 29; 30; 31; elected dictator of Johnstown, Pa., 35; 37; 38; 42; 49; 50.
Municipal Association, The, 171.
Municipal Home rule, xvi; 147; "the most pressing of all civic problems," 148; 187.
Municipal Ownership, xvi; advantages of , 26-27; city's only safeguard, 94; 96; first transportation line under, 99; practical demonstration of benefits, 100; J's efforts to establish city lighting plant, 191-194; evils it would abolish, 211-212; growing sentiment favorable to, 292.
Municipal Traction Company, xxi; 224; 234; 239; 246; 250; 251; 280; 282; 283. (See Threefer.)
NAU, Carl H., 269.
Neal, Lawrence T., 70; 72.
Neutral Street Railway, 279.
Nichols Law, 146.
Nickel Plate Road, 136; 137.
Nisi Prius Club, 311-312.
O'CONNOR, T. P., 298.
O'Day, John, 214.
PAUL, John, 298; quoted, 298; 300; 301.
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 43; 113; 123.
Pilcher, Joe, i.
Pingree, Hazen S., 91; 92; 93; 94; 95-97; 108.
Plain Dealer, Cleveland, 61; 113; quoted, 146; quoted, 188; quoted 193; quoted 255-256; quoted 305.
Pomerene, Atlee, xvi.
Porter, Albert G., 13.
Post, Louis F., 52; quoted, 53; editorial writer on Cleveland Recorder, 54; establishes The Public, 54; 299; account of J's trip to Fels Fund commission meeting in new York, 306-310.
Press, Cleveland, 114; editorial from, 228-229; statement of concerning guarantee, 230-232; editorial from 232-233; 259.
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Press Post, Columbus, 156.
Private Ownership of Public Utilities, evils of, 25-26.
Privilege, J's address on, xiii; land monopoly root of, xvii; J. defines, xxxv; far-reaching effects of, xxxvi; power over judiciary, xxxciii; cure to be effected through economic change, xxxviii-xxxix; uses people's savings to oppress them, 15; as typified by patent laws, 29; other types of, 33; responsible for Johnstown flood, 44; 60; it's way of reasoning, 76; 80; 86; poverty the result of, 89; 90; it's fight against Pingree, 91; its methods, 93-94; 107; 107; Chamber of Commerce sides with, 113; ignores party lines, 114; 115; 118; at the root of corrupt government; 125; 143; 147; control of taxing machinery greatest power of, 149; 150; remedy for, 151-155; 158; 159; 163; 164; 169; 170; 171; 177; 188; 195; 203; 206; seeks to accomplish ends through councils, 212; influences judiciary and secures services of best lawyers, 247; its power to delay progress, 250; its disregard for public interests, 260; 263; perpetuates itself with savings bank deposits, 267; 274; 282; 288; 293; 301; George doctrine only way to end, 302.
Progress and Poverty, 49; 50.
Protection, 60; denounced, 71; 77-81.
Protection or Free Trade, 9; J. distributes free copies of, 52; reprinted as quotations in Congressional Record, 68-69; 70; 73.
Public Ownership, xxxix; of roadbeds solution of railroad problem, 151-153. (See, also, Municipal Ownership.)
RECALL, xvi, 119.
Recorder, Cleveland, J. backs, 54.
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Reed, Thomas B., quoted, 64-64; quoted, 74.
Referendum, xvi; 119; 199; election, 282; election, 288; election, 290.
Reilly, John, 43.
Rickey, H. N., 232.
Roosevelt, Theodore, xvii; 267; 268; 274.
Root, Elihu, 98; quoted, 99.
Russell, L. A., 49; 50.
SANDERS, Judge, 247.
Schmidt, Herman, 287; 288.
Schmidt Law, 278; 279.
Scripps, E. W., 231; 232; 233.
Scripps Publishing Company, 230; 231.
Shearman, Thomas G., 54; 307.
Sheets, Attorney-General, 130; 141; 146; 163; 192; 194.
Short Bellot, xvi.
Simms, Elias, 17; 18; 19; 20; 22; 23; 227.
Simpson, Jerry, 63; 64; 68.
Single Tax, 55; bill in Congress, 63; "the only just tax," 66-67; what it is and what it would do, 154-155; J's influence on movement in England, 299; "Bucklin Bill," 307. (See, also, George, Henry; Land Monopoly; Taxation of land values; titles of books by George.)
"Slip-Slide," J's invention described by F. C. Howe, xxciii-xxxii.
Socialism, 151; Hanna on, 202-203.
Social Problems, 49.
Somers, W. A., devises unit system for taxation, 128; 292.
Sontheimer, Solomon, 172.
South Brooklyn, Ohio, 216-218.
South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club, 43.
Special Privilege. (See Privilege.)
Springborn, William J., 121; 172; 179-180; 193; 227-228; 269.
Stage, Charles W., 224; 311.
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Standard Oil Company, 154; 195; 213; 214; 215; 216.
Steel Rail Pool, 76-78.
Steffens, J. Lincoln, estimate of J., xx; 299.
Stockwell, John N., quoted, xiv; 311.
Stone, William J., 68.
Summers, A. N., 157; 158.
TAFT, William H., 267; 268.
Tammany Hall, 57.
Tariff, 33; 71; 73-75; 76-81.
Taussig, J. E., 134; 135.
Taxation of land values, discussion of in District of Columbia, 65-67. (See also, Single Tax.)
Tax School, 125-131.
Tayler Grant, 290; 291.
Tayler, Robert W., 237; 284; address to city council quoted, 285-286; 288; 289.
Threefer, 225; 241; 250; 262; 280.
Tracey, Representative, 63.
Trevelyan, Charles, 298.
Tuckerman, Dr. 115.
Tyler, James, 303; 307.
UNION Club, 171; 266.
United States Steel Company, 90.
U'Ren, W. S., 307
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VILAS, William F., 70; 72.
Vorhees, 104; 105.
WADSWORTH, James, 65.
Warner, John DeWitt, 63; 299.
Warrington, John W., 237; 238; 247.
Washington, D.C. (See District of Columbia.)
Washington, Joseph E., 65; 68.
Watterson, Henry, 70; 72.
Wedgewood, Josiah, 298.
Wells, Representative, 197; 198.
Westenhaver, D. C., 247.
White, John G., 285; 287.
Whitlock, Brand, 207.
Whitney, William C., quoted, 73.
Widener-Elkins Syndicate, 196.
Wiebenson, Edward, 224.
Williams, Charles D., xxiii.
Wilson Bill, 73; 74; 75; 78.
Wilson, Richard T., 91; 92; 93; 98; quoted, 106; 108.
Wilson, William L., 72.
Witt, Peter, 75; 84-86; 115;126; 181; 203; 218; 256; 257; 258; 259; 273; 274; 307.
Woman Suffrage, xvi.
Wright, Mr. 200.
ZMUNT, J. B. 187.
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