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Benjamin Harrison to Stanton J. Peelle, February 14th, 1885.
Stanton Peelle was a Republican Congressman who had lost his reelection bid the previous fall. This letter is telling of Cleveland’s outsider status in Washington.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
"The Democrats who have been over to see Cleveland are not very talkative when they return. They..." 11
“The Democrats who have been over to see Cleveland are not very talkative when they return. They evidently feel like the man who had carried a bucket of water and emptied it into a cistern! They have brought back only empty buckets, and they seem somewhat in doubt whether the cistern will hold water. They have made a ‘catch,’ but whether it is a salmon or a dog-fish they do not yet know.”
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