Grover Cleveland: “They ask for bread and they are given a stone.”

On the recordSeptember 7, 1888

They ask for bread and they are given a stone.

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Democratic · New Jersey

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Letter to Members of the Notification Committee of the Democratic National Convention Accepting the Presidential Nomination

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