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Grover Cleveland: I believe that it supplies a satisfactory, practical, and final adjustment, upon a basis honorable and just to both…

On the recordFebruary 19, 1888
I believe that it supplies a satisfactory, practical, and final adjustment, upon a basis honorable and just to both parties, of the difficult and vexed question to which it relates.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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