Grover Cleveland, Just Eight Days Before His Re-election in 1892, Plots His Final Week Before His Eventual Victory
He writes a campaign manager his former Postmaster General Donald M. Dickinson, “I don't think but I know it is a mistake for me to speak anywhere up to tomorrow night"
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With only 8 days to go before the 1892 presidential election Cleveland was the consummate politician. He had lost his previous re-election bid in 1888 to Benjamin Harrison but came back to win in 1892, becoming the only president to serve two separate terms.
Autograph letter signed, two pages, New York, October...
With only 8 days to go before the 1892 presidential election Cleveland was the consummate politician. He had lost his previous re-election bid in 1888 to Benjamin Harrison but came back to win in 1892, becoming the only president to serve two separate terms.
Autograph letter signed, two pages, New York, October 31, 1892, just eight days before the election, to Donald Dickinson, almost surely his former Postmaster General Donald M. Dickinson, head of the Michigan delegation to the Democratic National Committee in 1892 who had helped secure Cleveland’s first nomination eight years before. “I am sorry the committee has reached the conclusion you announce. I don’t guess and I don’t think but I know it is a mistake for me to speak anywhere up to tomorrow night. With such a settled conviction on my mind you cannot shame me if I only partly agree with the committee. If it is invited me I will go to Jersey City next Friday evening if a meeting is to be held there. That is all I can do. I am half sick and have an all night job before me. I wish the committee could see the matter differently. If I go the responsibility must be on them.”
It seems clear that Cleveland was tired and overworked by the end of the 1892 campaign, and felt the need to limit his campaigning. He won the election held just eight days after he wrote this letter.
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