Posted 3 years ago
tintyper
(98 items)
Grover Cleveland was elected president in 1884, in the campaign where a minor Republican speaker criticized the Democrats for being the party of "...Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion." This remark hurt the Republicans with booze drinkers, Roman Catholics, and ex-Confederates and helped elect Cleveland! Next election Cleveland was defeated for president in 1888, and then in 1892 he was elected
once more! Politics, like life, can be ups, and downs!
He and his vice president were Democrats. The box was for cigars.
I started collecting American Political items when I was a kid in the 1960 election.
By far this item is now the oldest in my collection. It came practically free, recently, from a box lot in an
auction of very old items in Pennsylvania.
