30-Mr. Harrison's Dumbbells

  The White House changed parties five times from 1880-1896.  The Robber Barons ran the country. They did not want interference from those pesky people in Washington.  
   Smack-dab in the middle of this period is the Republican presidency of Benjamin Harrison.   Farming and manufacturing were the main engines of our economy.  Supporting one was rejecting the other ("No Rodney, we can't just all get along").  Harrison supported manufacturing, and the high protective tariff that guarded it.  Moving to the end of the story, he overplayed his hand and did not get reelected.  
     When he returned home to Indianapolis, to his ten servants and 10,000 sq. ft. house, he found his dumbbells waiting patiently in the corner of his bedroom.