Ashbel P. Fitch: champion of old New York

Forebears and early years, 1848-1885

Politics and the road to Washington

National prominence, tariff speech : fiftieth congress, 1886-1888

New York's world's fair lost : fifty-first congress, 1888-1890

Republican overreach, democratic momentum : fifty-first congress, 1888-1890

Silver beckons : fifty-second congress, 1890-1892

New York and the election law in Cleveland's victory : fifty-second congress, 1890-1892

Repeal of the election law and Sherman Act : fifty-third congress, 1892-1894

New York City's watershed

Reformers in charge, 1895

A crash and a bang

Silver and the New York elections of 1896 and 1897

Passage.