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On the recordSeptember 2, 1892
Few subjects have elicited more discussion or excited more general interest than that of a recovery by the United States of its appropriate share of the ocean carrying trade.
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Benjamin Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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Letter Accepting the Presidential Nomination

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