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Grover Cleveland: “I do hereby command all persons engaged in or in any way connected with such unlawful obstructions, combinations, and…”

On the recordJuly 8, 1894
I do hereby command all persons engaged in or in any way connected with such unlawful obstructions, combinations, and assemblages to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the 10th day of July instant.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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Proclamation 367—Law and Order in Parts of the States of North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming, Colorado, and...

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