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                                 —1900—
                                  OR,
                           THE LAST PRESIDENT


                                   BY

                          INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD,

                          Of the New York Bar.


                Copyright, 1896, by INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD.


                         The Trade Supplied by
                       THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY,
                               New York.




    The Chicago Platform assumes, in fact, the form of a
    revolutionary propaganda. It embodies a menace of national
    disintegration and destruction.

                                                   GARRET A. HOBART.




                               CHAPTER I.


That was a terrible night for the great City of New York—the night of