XLIII 
A UNITED PEOPLE 
Ine flag, one land, one heart, one hand, 
One nation, evermore. 
Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF JAMES A, GARFIELD AND 
CHESTER A. ARTHUR (1881-85 ) 
268. The Presidential Election of 1880.—In the presidential 
election of 1880 the Republicans nominated James A. Garfıeld 
of Ohio for President and Chester A, Arthur of New York for 
Vice-President. The Democrats nominated Winfield Scott 
Hancock. The Greenback-Labor party nominated James B. 
Weaver of Iowa. The Prohibition 
party nominated Neal Dow of Maine. 
In the campaign of 1880 there 
was no bitterness displayed between 
the North and the South and no 
agitation of sectional questions. For 
the first time in a generation Ameri- 
cans talked and acted as if they were 
really a united people. Garfield re- 
ceived the majority of the electoral 
votes, although Hancock polled a 
popular vote almost as large as that 
»f his successful rival. 
269. The Death of Garfield; 
President Arthur.— President Gar- 
field had hardly entered upon his 
duties as President when he was 
made the victim of an assassin’s 
bullet. On July 2, 1881, while in 
*” Aon,’he was shot in the back by 
"e wounded President made a 
the railroad station at Wv :.. 
“sappointed office-see'