Download or read book The Daily News Almanac and Political Register for 1893, Vol. 9 (Classic Reprint) written by George Edward Plumbe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Daily News Almanac and Political Register for 1893, Vol. 9 The year 1892 marks an epoch in the political history of the United States, the elections of the year showing a wider and more radical change in the political sentiment of this country than any preceding one. The election tables of the Almanac for 1893, covering more than 100 pages, give the vote in every county (state and territorial), showing exactly where the change of political Opinion has been most pronounced. The table of exports and imports by articles for two years enables one to see at a glance the effect of the new tarifi' legislation on our trade and commerce. A brief history is given of all the presidential nominating conventions and caucuses since Washington. Details of the settlement of our difficulties with Chile and italy, the progress of the Bering sea dispute and our retaliation on Canada are full of interest. Short sketches of men who became prominent last year and the letters of acceptance from the four presidential candidates are new features in this issue. The world's-fair matter has been compiled with careful discrimi nation and will be found of general interest and value. A large assortment of census and other statistics bearing on Indian schools, silver, gold, pen sions, education, churches, government receipts and expenditures, the liquor traffic, banks, the currency and a great variety of other subjects of value to eyery intelligent citizen, are to be found in the present volume. The daily news almanac for 1893 is replete with new and fresh material. Lts aim is to be fair, accurate and strictly non-partisan - and no pains or expense have been spared to maintain the high reputation it has already made for completeness and trustworthiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.