VOLUME IV

CONTENTS

XXXIX
The Return to Spiegel Grove -- Resumption of Private Life -- The Star Route Frauds -- Tasks of Administration -- The Assassination of Garfield -- Politics and Temperance -- Death of Garfield -- Creation of Slater Educational Fund -- Attitude Toward Newspaper Detraction -- President Arthur's First Message 1
XL
Review of Administration -- Its Many Achievements -- Participation in Local Interests -- Attitude Toward Newspaper Abuse -- First Meeting of Slater Trustees -- Industrial Education -- Great Floods in Ohio -- December 1881 - February 1883 58
XLI
Garfield's Character -- Progress in the South -- Liberality to the Church -- Devotion to the Cause of Education -- President National Prison Association -- Payne's Election to Senate Bad Politics -- Interest in Western Reserve University -- The Cincinnati Riot -- Nominations of Blaine and Cleveland -- 1883-1884 110
XLII
The Election of Cleveland -- Interest in Loyal Legion -- Politics and Temperance -- Cleveland and Civil Service Reform -- Slater and Peabody Board Activities -- General Grant's Illness -- The Washington Monument -- Revival Services -- Trustee Ohio Wesleyan -- 1884-1885 172
XLIII
The Death of General Grant Action in Behalf of National Monument -- Reunion of Old Regiment -- Regrets Continued Waving of "Bloody Shirt" -- Foraker Elected Governor -- Death of Hendricks -- Dangers of Vast Fortunes -- 1885-1886 223
XLIV
Hayes's Military Record -- Loayal Legion Activity -- Advocacy of National Aid to Education -- Hayes's Exercise of Appointing Power -- Labor and Excessive Wealth -- Hancock and the Disputed Election -- One of the Good Colonels -- National Prison Crongress at Atlanta -- Death of President Arthur -- The "Fraud Issue" -- Henry Ward Beecher's Patriotic Service -- 1886-1887 268
XLV
University Interests -- Death of Vice-President Wheeler -- Fraud Issue Abandoned by Democrats in 1880 -- General Comly's Death -- Soldiers' Reunion at Wheeling, Flag Incident -- Interest in Industrial Education -- The Money Power -- Church at Fremont Burned -- 1887-1888 324
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Death of Chief Justice Waite -- Grounds for Liberal Pension Policy -- Character of Conkling -- Nomination of Harrison -- Prison Congress at Boston -- Interest in State University -- Death of General Sheridan -- Cincinnati Centennial Exposition -- Commander-in-Chief Loyal Legion -- 1888 380
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Election of Harrison -- Honor to Warden McClaughry -- Temperance Reformers' Intemperance of Speech -- A Boy's Audacity in Autograph-Seeking -- Bryce's "American Commonwealth" -- Importunity of Office-Seekers -- Commendation of Cleveland -- Aid for Disabled Confederate Soldiers -- Death of Matthews -- Centennial Celebration of Washington's Inauguration as President -- 1888-1889 420
XLVIII
Death of Lucy Webb Hayes -- Her Character, Career, and Graces of Life -- Months of Anguished Mourning -- Consolatory Visit of Mrs. Harriet Collins Herron -- Rereading Emerson -- Visit to Lake Mohonk and New England -- 1889 471
XLIX
Prohibition and Politics -- Foraker's Qualities -- Duelling in Kentucky -- Emerson's Inspiring Philosophy -- Politics in the Pulpit -- General Mitchell Urged for Pension Agent -- Death of Pendleton -- Nihilism -- Death of General Crook, His Characteristics -- 1889-1890 521
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Visit to Bermuda -- The Many Courtesies Received -- Religious Convictions -- Presides at First Mohonk Negro Conference -- Speaks at Ottawa, Kansas -- Pioneer Meeting at Delaware -- Interest in Western Reserve University -- Death of General Noyes -- April-October, 1890 565
LI
Loyal Legion Activities -- Mrs. Davis's "In Memoriam" -- Visit to Chicago -- Stanley at Toledo -- Death of Doctor John Daivs -- Review of Mrs. Hayes's Life -- Death of General Devens -- Wealth and Poverty -- Death of General Sherman -- Expenses in White House -- October 1890 - April 1891 605


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