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HARRISON, Benjamin. Draft telegram signed ("Benj. Harrison"), as President, to Whitelaw Reid, Washington, D. C., n.d. [ca. June 1892] 1 page, 8vo, on Executive Mansion stationery, in pencil.
HARRISON CONGRATULATES HIS 1892 RUNNING MATE ON HIS NOMINATION
The GOP convention met in Minneapolis that June, renominating the incumbent on the first ballot, even though there was surprisingly strong showing by rivals James G. Blaine and William McKinley. Four years before, the Harrison-Levi Morton ticket had just barely beaten Grover Cleveland in the 1888 election. In fact, Cleveland out-polled the Republican ticket nationwide by a healthy margin of 100,000 votes, but failed to win majorities in the Electoral vote-rich states of the North, and Harrison coasted into office by 233 to 168 Electoral College votes. For their rematch here in 1892, Harrison turned to another New Yorker as his running mate, Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune and former Ambassador to France. But this time Cleveland won New York, as well as New Jersey, Illinois and California, sending the Harrison-Reid ticket down to defeat.
HARRISON CONGRATULATES HIS 1892 RUNNING MATE ON HIS NOMINATION
The GOP convention met in Minneapolis that June, renominating the incumbent on the first ballot, even though there was surprisingly strong showing by rivals James G. Blaine and William McKinley. Four years before, the Harrison-Levi Morton ticket had just barely beaten Grover Cleveland in the 1888 election. In fact, Cleveland out-polled the Republican ticket nationwide by a healthy margin of 100,000 votes, but failed to win majorities in the Electoral vote-rich states of the North, and Harrison coasted into office by 233 to 168 Electoral College votes. For their rematch here in 1892, Harrison turned to another New Yorker as his running mate, Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune and former Ambassador to France. But this time Cleveland won New York, as well as New Jersey, Illinois and California, sending the Harrison-Reid ticket down to defeat.