Harrison negotiated reciprocal trade agreements that set the pattern for American trade policy in the years to come. For the election of 1888, Harrison ran a "front porch campaign." Staying at ...

Yet G.O.P. ballots from Indiana in 1888 may be the most significant in American politics ... Sometimes voters handed their votes to election clerks for deposit, inviting further fiddling with ...

The 1888 election revealed tensions among Democrats, primarily over the tariff, that became a harbinger of the party’s struggles in 1896. The party’s inability to reconcile competing constituencies in ...