1900; or, The Last President
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An obscure masterpiece until recently, Ingersoll Lockwood's fin de siècle short story 1900; or, The Last President uncannily describes the current political situation in America today. Indeed, many believe the author tapped into a mysterious force in the composition of his eerily clairvoyant tale - and in the writing of a series of books about a young Baron Trump and his adventures in New York.
The futuristic fable 1900 outlines the rise of a populist president and extrapolates what the consequences of electing such a seemingly popular Commander-in-Chief might be.
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1900; or, The Last President - Ingersoll Lockwood
Men
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 Tuesday, November 3rd, 1896. The city staggered under the blow like a huge ocean liner which plunges, full speed, with terrific crash into a mighty iceberg, and recoils shattered and trembling like an aspen.
The people were gathered, lighthearted and confident, at the evening meal, when the news burst upon them. It was like a thunderbolt out of an azure sky: Altgeld* holds Illinois hard and fast in the Democratic line. This elects Bryan** President of the United States!
*Illinois politician John Peter Altgeld (1847-1902).
**1896 Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925).
Strange to say, the people in the upper portion of the city made no movement to rush out of their houses and collect in the public squares, although the night was clear and beautiful. They sat as if paralyzed with a nameless dread, and when they conversed it was with bated breath and throbbing hearts.
In less than half an hour, mounted policemen dashed through the streets calling out: Keep within your houses; close your doors and barricade them. The entire East side is in a state of uproar. Mobs of vast size are organizing under the lead of Anarchists and Socialists, and threaten to plunder and despoil the houses of the rich who have wronged and oppressed them for so many years. Keep within doors. Extinguish all lights.
Happily, Governor Morton* was in town, and although a deeper pallor overcame the ashen hue of age as he spoke, yet there was no tremor in his voice: Let the Seventh, Twenty-second and Seventy-first regiments be ordered under arms.
In a few moments hundreds of messengers could be heard racing through the silent streets, summoning the members of these regiments to their armories.
*31st Governor of New York, Levi Parsons Morton (1824-1920).
Slowly, but with astonishing nerve and steadiness, the mobs pushed the police northward, and although the force stood the onslaught with magnificent courage, yet beaten back, the dark masses of infuriated beings surged up again with renewed fury and strength.
Will the troops be in time to save the city?
was the whispered inquiry among the knots of police officials who were directing the movements of their men.
About nine o’clock, with deafening outcries, the mob, like a four-headed monster breathing fire and flame, raced, tore, burst, raged into Union Square.
The police force was exhausted, but their front was still like a wall of stone, save that it was movable. The mob crowded it steadily to the north, while the air quivered and was rent with mad vociferations of the victors: Bryan is elected! Bryan is elected! Our day has come at last. Down with our oppressors! Death to the rich man! Death to the goldbugs! Death to the capitalists! Give us back the money you have ground out of us. Give us back the marrow of our bones which you have used to grease the wheels of your chariots.
[Note: Ingersoll is writing against the backdrop of the silver-reserve caused economic collapse of 1896. The financial calamity was the last major ‘panic’ of the era, a Depression that began with the Panic of 1893.]
The police force was now almost helpless. The men still used their sticks, but the blows were ineffectual, and only served to increase the rage of the vast hordes