{"id":178,"date":"2018-01-16T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=178"},"modified":"2018-02-28T00:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:23:50","slug":"quarry-chapter-ii","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/chapter\/quarry-chapter-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter II"},"content":{"raw":"<pre>\u201cAll the conditions of the time were favorable to rapid economic progress. McKinley had come and gone; [<em>see<\/em> <strong>Chapter V]<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about\/presidents\/TheodoreRoosevelt\/\"><strong>Roosevelt<\/strong><\/a> was sitting in the saddle, riproaring and swinging the big stick. The high tariff and the steel trust had made the country safe for plutocracy and were filling up with new types of immigrants who lowered our living standards while they increased our production and our markets. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agribusinesscouncil.org\/bryan.htm\"><strong>Mr. Bryan<\/strong><\/a>, a voice fated to futility, was still chasing rainbows. Locally, <a href=\"http:\/\/ech.cwru.edu\/ech-cgi\/article.pl?id=JTL\"><strong>Tom L. Johnson<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> having cleaned out the Augean stables of the city council was riding high on his hobby horse of three-cent railroad fare with <a href=\"http:\/\/law.wlu.edu\/alumni\/bios\/baker.asp\"><strong>Newton D. Baker<\/strong><\/a>, pipe in hand, argent of tongue and ardent of spirit , holding on to his leader\u2019s stirrup straps until he could get into his own stride\u201d\u00a0 <strong>(p. 12)<\/strong><\/pre>\r\n<div class=\"textbox\" style=\"text-align: center\"><em>To learn more about Tom L. Johnson, one of Cleveland\u2019s former mayors, read his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clevelandmemory.org\/ebooks\/johnson\/\">autobiography<\/a>.<\/em>\r\n<em> Click this link to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=48\">gravesite<\/a> for Newton D. Baker buried at Lakeview Cemetery.<\/em><\/div>\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<pre>\u201cAll the conditions of the time were favorable to rapid economic progress. McKinley had come and gone; [<em>see<\/em> <strong>Chapter V]<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about\/presidents\/TheodoreRoosevelt\/\"><strong>Roosevelt<\/strong><\/a> was sitting in the saddle, riproaring and swinging the big stick. The high tariff and the steel trust had made the country safe for plutocracy and were filling up with new types of immigrants who lowered our living standards while they increased our production and our markets. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agribusinesscouncil.org\/bryan.htm\"><strong>Mr. Bryan<\/strong><\/a>, a voice fated to futility, was still chasing rainbows. Locally, <a href=\"http:\/\/ech.cwru.edu\/ech-cgi\/article.pl?id=JTL\"><strong>Tom L. Johnson<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> having cleaned out the Augean stables of the city council was riding high on his hobby horse of three-cent railroad fare with <a href=\"http:\/\/law.wlu.edu\/alumni\/bios\/baker.asp\"><strong>Newton D. Baker<\/strong><\/a>, pipe in hand, argent of tongue and ardent of spirit , holding on to his leader\u2019s stirrup straps until he could get into his own stride\u201d\u00a0 <strong>(p. 12)<\/strong><\/pre>\n<div class=\"textbox\" style=\"text-align: center\"><em>To learn more about Tom L. 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