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Grover Cleveland: If such a commission were fairly organized, the risk of a loss of popular support and sympathy resulting from a refusal…

On the recordApril 21, 1886
If such a commission were fairly organized, the risk of a loss of popular support and sympathy resulting from a refusal to submit to so peaceful an instrumentality would constrain both parties to such disputes to invoke its interference and abide by its decisions.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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