e President, therefore,
declaring that the rioters had no right to interfere with the United
States mails, ordered national troops to the scene to maintain order. A
year later, when the British Government, involved in a boundary dispute
with Venezuela, declared that it did not accept the Monroe Doctrine and
would not submit the dispute to arbitration, the President sent a
message to Congress, declaring that the Monroe Doctrine must be upheld
at whatever cost. The country was thrilled from end to end, the
President's course approved, and Great Britain at last consented to
arbitration.

[Illustration: CLEVELAND]

And yet, when Cleveland left the presidential chair for the second time,
he had entirely lost control of and sympathy with his own party. He had
shown little tact in his dealings with the party leaders. He seemed to
forget that, after all, these leaders had certain rights and privileges
which should be respected; he sometimes blundered through very anxiety
to be right. You have heard some men called so upright that they leaned
over backward--well, that, occasionally, was Cleveland's fault. He
was subjected to such a storm of abuse as no other ex-President ever had
to endure. That he felt it keenly there can be no question; but in the
years which followed, his sturdy and unassailable character came to be
recognized and appreciated, and his death, in the summer of 1908, was
the occasion of deep and widespread sorrow.

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We have told how, in 1888, Cleveland was defeated for the presidency by
Benjamin Harrison. Harrison was a grandson of the old warrior of
Tippecanoe, William Henry Harrison, the successful candidate of the Whig
party forty-eight years before. He was an able but not brilliant man,
had served through the Civil War, and was afterwards elected senator
from Indiana, to which state he had removed from Ohio at an early age.
The platform on which he was elected pledged the party to the protective
tariff principle, and a high tariff measure, known as the McKinley Bill,
was passed, raising duties to a point higher than had ever before been
known in the history of the United States.

The Dependent Pension Bill, which Cleveland had vetoed, and which gave a
pension to every Union soldier who was from any cause unable to earn a
living, was also passed. But these policies did not appeal to the
public; besides which, Harrison, although a man of integrity and
ability, was