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Grover Cleveland: “Principles above Spoils” Letter

( 1890 ) Commentary by Tom Lansford, University of Southern Mississippi

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the last Democratic victory the 1890 elections, held about a month before Cleveland’s speech, which dramatically and decisively overturned Republican control of the House
scruple hesitate as a result of moral concerns

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