![]() ![]() ![]() And African-Americans allowed the vote still proved loyal Republicans all the way until the New Deal, however little the party did for them. The gathering was a first not because McKinley was notably enlightened, but because he campaigned aggressively enough for the nomination that he took such meetings at all. Rove paints McKinley as a racial moderate, with his principal evidence, beyond vague claims of personal rectitude, a meeting McKinley held with African-Americans at a church in Savannah, Georgia, in March 1896. ![]() McKinley also compiled the worst racial record of any Republican president who had yet held office. McKinley reached into the nation’s deepest pockets and, with the proceeds, won the immigrant vote and prevailed. ![]() Karl Rove, in his new propaganda tract disguised as a stocking stuffer ("The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters"), gives Republicans a model for winning a durable national majority: William McKinley, the stolid Ohioan who in 1896 repulsed the threat of Populism and secured for the Republican Party a control over national politics broken only by the New Deal. ![]()
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