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p 36: 'Cynics growled that [Senator Redfield] Proctor, who owned quarries in Vermont, was encouraging American intervention in Cuba to increase the market for gravestones.'
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176: One newspaper endorsed McKinley with an editorial headlined THE NATION'S CHOICE–OF EVILS. Benjamin Harrison, the most recent Republican president, refused to endorse McKinley, leading newspapers to note his "masterly inactivity" and "brilliant flashes of silence." Grover Cleveland went duck hunting rather than vote, muttering before he set out, "Bryanism and McKinleyism! What a choice for a patriotic American!"
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