Anti-Catholic nativism resurged as an electoral force in 1914 after two quiet decades

Evidence

Furthermore, for the first time since 1894, religious xenophobia became a substantial factor in the 1914 elections in some areas, notably in the New York gubernatorial campaign. In that state William Sulzer, a flashy, insincere progressive who had been removed as Democratic Governor the year before on proof of corruption, was seeking popular vindication. … After Sulzer failed narrowly in an attempt to seize control of the collapsing Progressive party, he organized his own, the American party, claimed that the Tammany bosses. had framed him, and exploited all of the anti-Catholic commonplaces as openly as he dared. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1092

Categorization

• XREF: Chronologically bridges the earlier 1894 anti-Catholic peak to later 20th-century nativism waves discussed elsewhere. Speaks to the reader’s question about enemy categories recurring cyclically rather than passing through linearly.