During the election of 1892, the republicans nominated Benjamin Harrison, and the democrats nominated Grover Cleveland. The democrats chose Adlai E. Stevenson as the vice president for Cleveland. Cleveland won by a landslide, the numbers for Cleveland were 5,555,426 compared to Harrison’s 5,182,690 and an electoral vote of 277 to 145. Grover Cleveland was the only president to be elected his first term into presidency, lose the race for a second term, and turn around and win the presidency again after being out of office for a term.

Cleveland took the presidential oath on March 4, 1893. From this time forward Cleveland had his work cut out for him with a nation destined for troubled times beginning with the panic of 1983.

The treasury’s gold funds were depleting. Cleveland thought it was a good move to renounce the unlimited coinage of silver, revoking the Sherman-Silver Purchase Act of 1890. The railroads (which brought this financi

al crises on by spreading out to far to fast) went bankrupt, banks had shut down to close, farm mortgages had foreclosed, businesses failed, most Americans were unemployed, poverty was like an airborne disease, and everyone was suffering. Cleveland was focusing on the gold reserve rather than focusing on the country’s great despair. The pro-silver democrats had an unforgivable disliking for Cleveland. He turned to Wall Street bankers for a loan in hopes of maintaining the United States Treasury’s gold reserve. This crisis did not cease until 1896.

British Guiana was planning an attack on Venezuela. However, Venezuela was in the Western Hemisphere, which was protected in the Monroe Doctrine by America. Cleveland sent word to the British not to fight with or attack Venezuela. The British ignored Cleveland’s request.

The Cuban War of independence against Spain was from 1895 to 1898, during over half of Cleveland’s second term. Cleveland felt no need to interfere. Spain promised Cuba that they would be allowed to be independent. However Spain did not keep their promise. Spain set up disease infested concentration camps and fed their prisoners poorly. Although Americans felt sympathy for Cuba, Cleveland stood firm on not inv

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