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Grover Cleveland: The laboring man may well insist, with manly courage and as a right, upon the same recognition from those who make our…

On the recordApril 21, 1886
The laboring man may well insist, with manly courage and as a right, upon the same recognition from those who make our laws as is accorded to any other citizen.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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