179, 180, 182, 186.

Randall, Samuel J., 108, 138.

Rebates, railroad, forbidden by Elkins Law, 296.

Reciprocity, favorite scheme of Blaine, 175.

Reclamation of arid lands of the Southwest, 290, 291, 320.

Reconstruction, an inappropriate name for what took place, 39;
no constitutional theory adequate to meet problems of, 44;
must be judged by results, 44, 45;
completion of, in formal sense, 46;
not far advanced by 1870, 49;
dominant type of leaders, 78;
political superseded by constitutional, 85.

Reconstruction Acts of 1867, the, 43, 45, 47.

Reconstruction Governments, evils of, 50, 51, 61.

Reed, Thomas B., 172, 229, 240.

Referendum and initiative, 249, 250, 333, 334.

Regan, John H., 193.

Reid, Whitelaw, 56, 130.

Republican party, the, during the Civil War, 1, 2;
called itself Union, 4, 32;
paid for its disguise, 32;
in the South after 1876, 54;
new men in control, 78, 79;
regains control of the House (1880), 108;
but loses it again (1882), 117;
dissensions in, 128;
defeated in 1884, 133;
elects President and majority in both houses in 1888, 171;
suffers a landslide (1890), 185, 186;
regains control of Senate and House, (1894), 229;
platform in 1896, 234;
dominates every branch of National Government for fourteen years, 244;
the party of organized business, 252;
approves the Spanish War, 279;
elects Taft President (1908), 324, 325;
revises tariff, 326, 327;
dissatisfaction in, 327, 328;
loses the House (1910), 329;
renominates Taft (1912), 336.

Revels, Hiram R., negro Senator from Mississippi, 47.

River and Harbor Bill, 117.

Rockefeller, John D., gains chief control of petroleum traffic, 165, 166;
aids cause of education in South, 201;
methods of, 310, 321.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 128;
steps out of Blaine campaign, 130;
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 265, 277;
raises a regiment for Spanish War, 266;
in Cuba, 270;
early public career of, 276;
Governor of New York, 277;
a reformer of a new type, 277;
Vice-President with McKinley, 280;
succeeds to Presidency, 282;
and the Hague Court, 283, 284;
activity in securing Panama Canal, 286, 288;
questionable course toward Colombia, 286, 288;
attitude toward negroes, 289, 290;
widely popular, 291;
disliked by professional politicians, 291;
dissolves Northern Securities Company, 296, 299;
settles coal strike, 300;
alienates party leaders