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Grover Cleveland: I can not forget the thousands of poor widows with claims superior to this beneficiary.

On the recordJune 21, 1888
I can not forget the thousands of poor widows with claims superior to this beneficiary.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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