| − | The election of 1888 was not one filled with hard campaigning on both sides. [[President]] [[Grover Cleveland]], a [[Democrat]], was busy seeing to the affairs of the Presidency, while [[Benjamin Harrison]], a [[Republican]] campaigned hard to protect high tariffs. That was the central issue of the year. <ref>Encyclopedia of Presidents, Grover Cleveland, by Zachary Kent, Children's Press, 1988. </ref> Although, Democrats did try to campaign the results of the election would show: | + | The '''US presidential election of 1888''' was not one filled with hard campaigning on both sides. [[President]] [[Grover Cleveland]], a [[Democrat]], was busy seeing to the affairs of the Presidency, while [[Benjamin Harrison]], a [[Republican]] campaigned hard to protect high tariffs. That was the central issue of the year. <ref>Encyclopedia of Presidents, Grover Cleveland, by Zachary Kent, Children's Press, 1988. </ref> Although, Democrats did try to campaign the results of the election would show: |