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Date Posted: 16:37:26 12/11/02 Wed
Author: j
Subject: Ch19 - Cleveland, Harrison, and the Tariff

I. Cleveland, Harrison, and the Tariff
A. Election of 1884
i. candidates: James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland
a. after a religious dispute where Blaine apparently tolerated slander of the catholic church, Cleveland won due to the overwhelming democratic vote of Catholics in New York
ii. tariffs
a. in 1887, Cleveland proposed a tariff reduction which the House approved but the Senate sternly disapproved and created a proposal of their own, actually raising the tariffs
B. Election of 1888
i. democrats renominate Cleveland
ii. republicans nominate Benjamin Harrison
a. republicans endorsed protective tariffs(taxes on imported goods designed to protect domestic producers)
iii. the campaign was the first since the civil war to involve a clear question of economic differences between parties
a. it was one of the most corrupt and closest elections in American history
b. Harrison won an electoral majority, but Cleveland’s popular vote exceed Harrison’s by 100,000

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