GROVER CLEVELAND'S NON-CONSECUTIVE SECOND TERM: Undeniably Un-consecutive, The Election of 1892

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

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🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Only one person has been elected President twice in non-consecutive terms. But it was not easy. To do it Grover Cleveland had to pass a few difficult tests. From Goody-Goodies to Anti-Snappers, to Anti-Egoists and Scarecrow Festivals; from entering opposing party contests in secret ways to placing bets for your own candidate, to pretending to run in states and letting a third party win, to taking forceful honest stands, 1892 had everything. It was a triumph of navigating complex steampower politics. The first being, did he really want to run again? We are part of Airwave Media Network. www.airwavemedia.com Our sponsor is Money Pickle. Try out their FREE financial advisor service today at MoneyPIckle.com Do you wish to advertise - contact [email protected] Donate- www.patreon.com/mhcbuyp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:04.0	Where was the fighting Dynamo, the party leader of 1888
0:08.0	ready to politic on principle to take the fight
0:11.0	with the tariff issue and others?
0:12.0	Where, friends thought, was Grover Cleveland to claim it
0:16.2	to a superior number of popular votes. Not in this letter. I have sent for death and destruction,
0:22.3	he wrote to Daniel Lamont, his former gubernatorial and presidential
0:26.4	secretary.
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1:21.1	I think there ought to be a touching of elbows on the presidential question.
1:28.0	You didn't get much out of Stephen Grover, Cleveland, but friends could read a lot in the little, and there was a lot there enough
1:35.7	to make plans. There ought to be a touching of elbows. Maybe. The former president was ready to leave the old Dutch castle at 816 Madison
1:46.1	Avenue in New York City. Maybe set aside his speeches on good government in George
1:51.4	Washington which were starting to lack the old zip.
1:55.0	Perhaps he could resist being apart from his young wife Francis, darling of Democratic America,
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