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Grover Cleveland: the overwhelming weight of proof seems to establish that whatever disabilities exist are the result of disease…

On the recordJuly 16, 1888
the overwhelming weight of proof seems to establish that whatever disabilities exist are the result of disease contracted by vicious habits
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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