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| The '''U.S. presidential election of 1888''' was held on ], ]. Incumbent ] ] received the greatest number of popular votes, but ] challenger ]'s 233 electoral votes topped Cleveland's 168 to win the election. This marked the first time since the controversial ] that a President-elect failed to win the popular vote, a feat that would not be repeated until at least ] and possibly not until ]. | |||
| == Nominations == | |||
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| === Republican Party nomination === | |||
| At the Republican National Convention in ], ]'s ] won nomination receiving 544 delegate votes, defeating ] (who received 249 delegates), ] (142) and ] (123). ] politician and financier ] was the party's Vice Presidential choice, receiving 592 delegate votes to beat ] (119 delegates) and ] (103). | |||
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| === Democratic Party nomination === | |||
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| ] was unanimously renominated for President at the Democratic National Convention in ]. ]'s ] was chosen as the party's ] nominee by a large margin, garnering 684 delegate votes to ]'s 101 and ]'s 36. | |||
| === Other nominations === | |||
| The ] ticket of ] and ] captured nearly a quarter million popular votes as the ] movement gained steam. Another group, the ], was formed with ] as their nominee. The Union Labor Party garnered nearly 150,000 popular votes, but failed to gain widespread national support. | |||
| == General election == | |||
| === Campaign === | |||
| Cleveland set the main issue of the campaign when he proposed a dramatic reduction in tariffs in his annual message to Congress in December 1887. At the time, the policy of ] was most strongly promoted by the British empire, and so any political candidate who ran on free trade instantly was under threat of being labelled pro-British and thereby losing the swing Irish-American voting bloc. Cleveland neatly neutralized this threat by pursuing punitive action against Canada (which was still viewed as part of the British empire) in a fishing rights dispute. | |||
| Harrison was well funded by manufacturers who benefitted from ] and mounted an energetic campaign by the standards of the day, giving many speeches which were covered by the newspapers. Cleveland adhered to the increasingly outmoded tradition that presidential candidates did not campaign, and forbid his cabinet from campaigning as well, leaving his 75 year old vice presidential candidate Thurmond as the spearhead of his campaign. In spite of Harrison's much stronger campaign, the race was still a toss-up as Election Day neared. | |||
| ==== The Murchison letter ==== | |||
| This may be the first presidential election to turn on a dirty trick. | |||
| A California Republican named George Osgoodby wrote a letter to Sir Lionel Sackville-West, the British ambassador to the United States, under the assumed named of "Charles F. Murchison". "Murchison" described himself as a former Englishman who was now a California citizen and asked how he should vote in the upcoming presidential election. Sir Lionel wrote back and indiscreetly suggested that Cleveland was probably the best man from the British point of view. | |||
| The Republicans published this letter just two weeks before the election, where it had an effect on Irish-American voters exactly comparable to the "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" blunder of the ]: Cleveland lost New York state and the presidency. And Sackville-West was sacked as British ambassador. | |||
| === Results === | |||
| {{start U.S. presidential ticket box| pv_footnote=| ev_footnote=}} | |||
| {{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=]| party=]| state=]| pv=5,443,892| pv_pct=47.8%| ev=233| vp_name=]| vp_state=]}} | |||
| {{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=]| party=]| state=]| pv=5,534,488| pv_pct=48.6%| ev=168| vp_name=]| vp_state=]}} | |||
| {{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=]| party=]| state=]| pv=249,819| pv_pct=2.2%| ev=0| vp_name=]| vp_state=]}} | |||
| {{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=]| party=]| state=]| pv=146,602| pv_pct=1.3%| ev=0| vp_name=]| vp_state=]}} | |||
| {{U.S. presidential ticket box other| footnote=| pv=8,519| pv_pct=0.1%}} | |||
| {{end U.S. presidential ticket box| pv=11,383,320| ev=401| to_win=201}} | |||
| '''Source (Popular Vote):''' {{Leip PV source| year=1888| as of=], ]}} | |||
| '''Source (Electoral Vote):''' {{National Archives EV source| year=1888| as of=], ]}} | |||
| ==See also== | |||
| *] | |||
| == References == | |||
| ; Books | |||
| :* Butterfield, Roger. ''The American Past: A History of the United States from Concord to Hiroshima, 1775 – 1945.'' Simon and Schuster, New York: 1947. | |||
| ; Web sites | |||
| :* {{web reference| | |||
| URL=http://hnn.us/articles/3593.html| | |||
| title=Who Played the First Dirty Tricks in American Presidential Politics?| | |||
| work=History News Network| | |||
| date=April 4| | |||
| year=2005| | |||
| }} | |||
| == External links == | |||
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