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Politics and the Gilded Age

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Clevel<strong>and</strong> Battles for a LowerTariff• Election of 1888: <strong>the</strong> campaign– Both parties focused on <strong>the</strong> tariff issue, <strong>the</strong>only issue that separated <strong>the</strong>m– Republicans (allied with big business)raised huge sum of money ($3 million)• Businesses supported Republicans to stop tarifffrom being lowered• Money used to buy votes (“repeaters” or“floaters”) who voted several times

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