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{{Main|1884 Democratic National Convention}}

The Democrats convened in Chicago on July 8–11, 1884, with New York Governor Grover Cleveland as clear frontrunner, the candidate of northern reformers and sound-money men (as opposed to inflationists). Although Tammany Hall bitterly opposed his nomination, the machine represented a minority of the New York delegation. Its only chance to block Cleveland was to break the unit rule, which mandated that the votes of an entire delegation be cast for only one candidate, and this it failed to do. Daniel N. Lockwood from New York placed Cleveland's name in nomination. But this rather lackluster address was eclipsed by the seconding speech of Edward S. Bragg from Wisconsin, who roused the delegates with a memorable slap at Tammany. "They love him, gentlemen," Bragg said of Cleveland, "and they respect him, not only for himself, for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will, but they love him most of all for the enemies he has made." As the convention rocked with cheers, Tammany boss John Kelly lunged at the platform, screaming that he welcomed the compliment.

On the first ballot, Cleveland led the field with 392 votes, more than 150 votes short of the nomination. Trailing him were Thomas F. Bayard from Delaware, 170; Allen G. Thurman from Ohio, 88; Samuel J. Randall from Pennsylvania, 78; and Joseph E. McDonald from Indiana, 56; with the rest scattered. Randall then withdrew in Cleveland's favor. This move, together with the Southern bloc scrambling aboard the Cleveland bandwagon, was enough to put him over the top of the second ballot, with 683 votes to 81.5 for Bayard and 45.5 for Thomas A. Hendricks from Indiana. Hendricks was nominated unanimously for vice president on the first ballot after John C. Black, William Rosecrans, and George Washington Glick withdrew their names from consideration.William DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents, Gramercy 1997

{{Main|1884 Republican National Convention}}

File:20 Chester Arthur 3x4.jpg, the incumbent president in 1884, whose term expired on March 4, 1885]]

The 1884 Republican National Convention was held in Chicago, Illinois, on June 3–6, with former Secretary of State James G. Blaine from Maine, President Arthur, and Senator George F. Edmunds from Vermont as the frontrunners. Though he was still popular, Arthur did not make a serious bid for a full-term nomination, knowing that his increasing health problems meant he would probably not survive a second term (he ultimately died in November 1886). Blaine led on the first ballot, with Arthur second, and Edmunds third. This order did not change on successive ballots as Blaine increased his lead, and he won a majority on the fourth ballot. After nominating Blaine, the convention chose Senator John A. Logan from Illinois as the vice-presidential nominee. Blaine remains the only presidential nominee ever to come from Maine.[http://editions.lib.umn.edu/smartpolitics/2009/09/23/what-states-do-presidents-come/ ‘What States do Presidents Come From?’]

Famed Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman was considered a possible Republican candidate, but ruled himself out with what has become known as the Sherman pledge: "If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve." Robert Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War of the United States, and son of the past President Abraham Lincoln, was also strongly courted by politicians and the media of the day to seek the presidential or vice-presidential nomination, but Lincoln was as averse to the nomination as Sherman.

Anti-Monopoly candidates:

File:Bfbutler.jpg|{{center|Benjamin Butler from Massachusetts}}

File:AllenGThurman.png|{{center|Allen G. Thurman from Ohio}}

File:James Weaver - Brady-Handy (cropped).jpg|{{center|James B. Weaver from Iowa
(Declined to be nominated)}}

The Anti-Monopoly National Convention assembled in the Hershey Music Hall in Chicago, Illinois on May 14.{{cite web |url=https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/today-in-labor-history-anti-monopoly-party-founded/|date=14 May 2014| publisher=People's World|title=Today in labor history:Anti-Monopoly Party founded| accessdate=13 February 2021}} The party had been formed to express opposition to the business practices of the emerging nationwide companies. There were around 200 delegates from 16 states, but 61 of them were from Michigan and Illinois.

Alson Streeter was the temporary chairman and John F. Henry was the permanent chairman.

Benjamin Butler was nominated for president on the first ballot. Delegates from New York, Washington, D.C., and Maryland bolted the convention when it appeared that no discussion of other candidates would be allowed. Allen G. Thurman and James B. Weaver were put forward as alternatives to Butler, but Weaver declined, not wishing to run another national campaign for political office, and Thurman generated little enthusiasm. Butler, while far from opposed to the nomination, hoped to be nominated by the Democratic or Republican party, or at least in the case of the former, to make its platform more favorable to greenbacks. Ultimately only the Greenback Party endorsed his candidacy.

The convention chose not to nominate a candidate for vice president, hoping that other conventions would endorse a similar platform and name a suitable vice-presidential nominee.{{Cite book |last=Hinshaw |first=Seth |title=Ohio Elects the President: Our State's Role in Presidential Elections 1804-1996 |publisher=Book Masters, Inc |year=2000 |location=Mansfield}}{{rp|55}} The committee ultimately nominated Absolom Madden West as their vice-presidential candidate.{{rp|56}}

{{Main|1884 Greenback National Convention}}

Greenback candidates:

File:Bfbutler.jpg|{{center|Benjamin Butler from Massachusetts}}

File:Jesseharper.jpg|{{center|Party Chairman Jesse Harper from Illinois}}

The third Greenback National Convention assembled in English's Opera House in Indianapolis, Indiana. Delegates from 28 states and the District of Columbia were in attendance. The convention nominated former Massachusetts Governor Benjamin Butler for president over chairman Jesse Harper on the first ballot. Mississippi State Senator Absolom M. West was nominated unanimously for vice president. The ticket was subsequently adopted by the Anti-Monopoly Party.

Butler initially hoped to organize fusion tickets with the minority party in each state, a strategy designed to capitalize on the cross-partisan popularity of many elements of the candidate's program. The Greenbacks succeeded in negotiating fusion arrangements with the Democrats in Iowa, Michigan, and Nebraska and with the Republicans in Missouri and West Virginia. The fusion electors agreed to divide their votes between Butler and Cleveland, or Butler and Blaine, in proportion to the statewide popular vote for each candidate; however, the fusion ticket was not elected in any state, and Butler received no votes in the Electoral College.{{cite book |title=National Contest: Containing Portraits and Biographies of our National Favorites |date=1888 |location=Chicago |page=127 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L45BAQAAMAAJ}}{{cite news |last1=Fuller |first1=William D. |title=Butler in Michigan |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025167/1884-09-25/ed-1/seq-1 |work=Iowa Plain Dealer |date=September 25, 1884}}

File:Samuel C. Pomeroy - Brady-Handy.jpg|{{center|Samuel C. Pomeroy from Kansas
(Withdrew Aug 27, 1884)
(Endorsed John St. John)}}

The American Prohibition Party held its national convention in the YMCA building in Chicago, Illinois. There were 150 delegates, including many non-voting delegates. The party sought to merge the reform movements of anti-masonry, prohibition, anti-polygamy, and direct election of the president into a new party. Jonathan Blanchard was a major figure within the party. He traveled throughout northern states in the spring and gave an address entitled "The American Party – Its Principles and Its Claims."

During the convention, the party name was changed from the American Party to the American Prohibition Party. The party had been known as the Anti-Masonic Party in 1880. Many of the delegates at the convention were initially interested in nominating John St. John, the former governor of Kansas, but it was feared that such a nomination might cost him that of the Prohibition Party, which he was actively seeking. Party leaders met with Samuel C. Pomeroy, a former senator from the same state who was the convention's runner-up for the nomination, and at Pomeroy's suggestion they agreed to withdraw the ticket from the race should St. John win the Prohibition Party nomination. Nominated alongside Pomeroy was John A. Conant from Connecticut.

St. John later unanimously won the Prohibition Party nomination, with Pomeroy and Conant withdrawing from the presidential contest and endorsing him. The New York Times speculated that the endorsement would "give him 40,000 votes".{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/08/28/106153063.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/08/28/106153063.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Withdraws in Favor of St. John. |date=August 28, 1884 |newspaper=New York Times |access-date=2014-07-09}}

{{Main|1884 Prohibition National Convention}}

File:John St John 1880.jpg|{{center|John St. John from Kansas}}

The fourth Prohibition Party National Convention assembled in Lafayette Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There were 505 delegates from 31 states and territories at the convention. The national ticket was nominated unanimously: John St. John for president and William Daniel for vice president. The straightforward single-issue Prohibition Party platform advocated the criminalization of alcoholic beverages.{{Rp|page=58}}

File:Belva Ann Lockwood - Brady-Handy.jpg|{{center|Lawyer and Suffragette Belva Ann Lockwood from Washington, D.C.}}

Dissatisfied with resistance by the men of the major parties to women's suffrage, a small group of women announced the formation in 1884 of the Equal Rights Party.

The Equal Rights Party held its national convention in San Francisco, California, on September 20. The convention nominated Belva Ann Lockwood, an attorney in Washington, D.C., for president. Chairman Marietta Stow, the first woman to preside over a national nominating convention, was nominated for vice president.{{rp|57}}{{rp|56}}

Lockwood agreed to be the party's presidential candidate even though most women in the United States did not yet have the right to vote. She said, "I cannot vote but I can be voted for." She was the first woman to run a full campaign for the office (Victoria Woodhull conducted a more limited campaign in 1872). The Equal Rights Party had no treasury, but Lockwood gave lectures to pay for campaign travel. She received approximately 4,194 votes nationally.{{cite web|last=Soden|first= Suzanne|title=Belva A. Lockwood Collection [1830–1917]|publisher = New York State Library|date = February 1997|url= http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc21041.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009100317/https://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc21041.htm |archive-date= Oct 9, 2023 }}

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The issue of personal character was paramount in the 1884 campaign. Blaine had been prevented from getting the Republican presidential nomination during the previous two elections because of the stigma of the "Mulligan letters": in 1876, a Boston bookkeeper named James Mulligan had located some letters showing that Blaine had sold his influence in Congress to various businesses. One such letter ended with the phrase "burn this letter", from which a popular chant of the Democrats arose – "Burn, burn, burn this letter!" In just one deal, he had received $110,150 (over $1.5 million in 2010 dollars) from the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad for securing a federal land grant, among other things. Democrats and anti-Blaine Republicans made unrestrained attacks on his integrity as a result.

Cleveland, on the other hand, was known as "Grover the Good" for his personal integrity; in the space of the three previous years he had become successively the mayor of Buffalo, New York, and then the governor of the state of New York, cleaning up large amounts of Tammany Hall's graft.

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Commentator Jeff Jacoby notes that, "Not since George Washington had a candidate for president been so renowned for his rectitude."Jeff Jacoby, "[https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/02/15/presidents-day-grover-cleveland-most-honest-president-them-all/CmhndHa3aA1t0cvAfjB6LL/story.html 'Grover the good' — the most honest president of them all]", Boston Globe, February 15. 2015. In July the Republicans found a refutation buried in Cleveland's past. Aided by sermons from a minister named George H. Ball, they charged that Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child while he was a lawyer in Buffalo. When confronted with the scandal, Cleveland immediately instructed his supporters to "Above all, tell the truth." Cleveland admitted to paying child support in 1874 to Maria Crofts Halpin, the woman who claimed he fathered her child, named Oscar Folsom Cleveland after Cleveland's friend and law partner, but asserted that the child's paternity was uncertain.{{cite book|author=Henry F. Graff|title=Grover Cleveland: The American Presidents Series: The 22nd and 24th President, 1885–1889 and 1893–1897|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BjE7XsSQxmAC&pg=PA61|year=2002|publisher=Henry Holt and Company|pages=61–63|isbn=9780805069235}} Shortly before election day, the Republican media published an affidavit from Halpin in which she stated that until she met Cleveland her "life was pure and spotless," and "there is not, and never was, a doubt as to the paternity of our child, and the attempt of Grover Cleveland, or his friends, to couple the name of Oscar Folsom, or any one else, with that boy, for that purpose is simply infamous and false."{{cite book|last=Lachman|first=Charles|title=A Secret Life|date=2014|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing|pages=285–288}} In a supplemental affidavit, Halpin also implied Cleveland had raped her, hence the conception of their child.{{Cite web|url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-life-and-presidency-of-grover-cleveland|title=The Life and Presidency of Grover Cleveland|last1=Bushong|first1=William|last2=Chervinsky|first2=Lindsay|date=2007|website=White House History}} Republican cartoonists across the land had a field day.Glen Jeansonne, "Caricature and Satire in the Presidential Campaign of 1884." Journal of American Culture (1980) 3#2 pp: 238–244. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1542-734X.1980.0302_238.x/abstract Online]{{cite web|url=http://www.fultonhistory.com/Process%20small/Newspapers/Rochester%20NY%20Democrat%20Chronicle/Rochester%20NY%20Democrat%20Chronicle%201884/Newspapers%20Rochester%20NY%20Democrat%20Chronicle%201884%20-%200236.PDF |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.fultonhistory.com/Process%20small/Newspapers/Rochester%20NY%20Democrat%20Chronicle/Rochester%20NY%20Democrat%20Chronicle%201884/Newspapers%20Rochester%20NY%20Democrat%20Chronicle%201884%20-%200236.PDF |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Maria Halpin's Affidavit|date=Oct 31, 1884|pages=1|work=Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY)}}Daily Gazette (Fort Wayne, Indiana) Nov. 1, 1884. p. 5Topeka Daily Capital (Topeka, Kansas) Nov. 1, 1884. p. 4{{cite news|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045789/1884-11-02/ed-1/seq-2/|title=That Scandal|work=Wichita Daily Eagle (Wichita, Kansas)|date=Nov 2, 1884|access-date=July 30, 2014|page=2}}Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, (Cedar Rapids, Iowa). October 31, 1884. p. 3

Cleveland's campaign decided that candor was the best approach to this scandal: it admitted that Cleveland had formed an "illicit connection" with the mother and that a child had been born and given the Cleveland surname. They also noted that there was no proof that Cleveland was the father, and claimed that, by assuming responsibility and finding a home for the child, he was merely doing his duty. Finally, they showed that the mother had not been forced into an asylum; her whereabouts were unknown. Blaine's supporters condemned Cleveland in the strongest of terms, singing "Ma, Ma, Where's my Pa?"Tugwell, 90{{full citation needed|date=March 2024}} (After Cleveland's victory, Cleveland supporters would respond to the taunt with: "Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha.") However, the Cleveland campaign's damage control worked well enough and the race remained a tossup through Election Day. The greatest threat to the Republicans came from reformers called "Mugwumps" who were angrier at Blaine's public corruption than at Cleveland's private affairs.Geoffrey T. Blodgett, "The Mind of the Boston Mugwump." Mississippi Valley Historical Review (1962): 614–634. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1893145 in JSTOR]

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In the final week of the campaign, the Blaine campaign suffered a catastrophe. At a Republican meeting attended by Blaine, a group of New York preachers castigated the Mugwumps. Their spokesman, Reverend Dr. Samuel Burchard, said, "We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism, and rebellion." Blaine did not notice Burchard's anti-Catholic slur, nor did the assembled newspaper reporters, but a Democratic operative did, and Cleveland's campaign managers made sure it was widely publicized. The statement energized the Irish and Catholic vote in New York City heavily against Blaine, costing him New York state and the election by a narrow margin.

In addition to Burchard's statement, it is also believed that John St. John's campaign was responsible for winning Cleveland the election in New York. Since Prohibitionists tended to ally more with Republicans, the Republican Party attempted to convince St. John to drop out. When they failed, they resorted to slandering him. Because of this, he redoubled his efforts in upstate New York, where Blaine was vulnerable on his prohibition stance, and took votes away from the Republicans.{{cite web|url=http://elections.harpweek.com/1884/Overview-1884-3.htm |title=HarpWeek | Elections | 1884 Overview |publisher=Elections.harpweek.com |access-date=2014-07-09}}

35.6% of the voting age population and 78.3% of eligible voters participated in the election.{{sfn|Abramson|Aldrich|Rohde|1995|p=99}}

While the results remained broadly the same as those from 1880, Cleveland narrowly won three states (New York, Indiana, and Connecticut) that James A. Garfield had won, while Blaine won two states (California and Nevada) that Winfield Hancock had won. But most of those states had relatively small numbers of electoral votes, and Cleveland's victory in New York was decisive. Cleveland won by a slightly larger margin than Garfield (0.57% compared to 0.11%) in the popular vote, but a slightly smaller margin in the Electoral College (29 votes to 59). Cleveland became the first Democrat to ever win without Pennsylvania, California, Nevada, and Illinois. Pennsylvania voted for the losing candidate for the first time since 1824, and the loser of the popular vote since 1800.

The result marked an electoral breakthrough for the Prohibition Party, who had been little more than a fringe party in the previous three elections. While they never seriously challenged for the presidency and had only limited success in congressional and state-level elections, they regularly earned at least a percentage point of the popular vote (and occasionally finished third in that vote) in presidential elections for the next three decades before declining back to fringe status after the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919. By contrast, Butler earned less than half the popular vote share that James B. Weaver had won in 1880, accelerating the decline of the Greenback Party. This was the last presidential election the party contested; it collapsed after failing to nominate a ticket in 1888.

This is one of only four U.S. presidential elections in which the winner did not carry any of the three Rust Belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; the others were 1916, 2000, and 2004.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/politics/blue-wall-states-harris-trump-analysis/index.html|title=Why these three states are the most consistent tipping point in American politics|publisher=CNN|last=Brownstein|first=Ronald|date=September 16, 2024|accessdate=September 16, 2024}}

16.08% of Blaine's votes came from the eleven states of the former Confederacy, with him taking 40.15% of the vote in that region.{{sfn|Sherman|1973|p=263}}

In Burke County, Georgia, 897 votes were cast for bolting "Whig Republican" electors for president (they were not counted for Blaine).An American Almanac and Treasury of Facts, Statistical, Financial, and Political, for the year 1886., Ainsworth R. Spofford, https://books.google.com/books?id=1ZcYAAAAIAAJ (pg. 207) The Republicans won in 20 of the 33 cities with populations over 50,000 outside the southern U.S.{{cite book |last=Murphy |first=Paul |date=1974 |title=Political Parties In American History, Volume 3, 1890-present |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons}}

File:United States Electoral College 1884.svg

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{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=James G. Blaine|vp_name=John A. Logan| party=Republican|state=Maine|vp_state=Illinois|pv=4,856,903|pv_pct=48.28%|ev=182}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=John St. John|vp_name=William Daniel|party=Prohibition| state=Kansas|vp_state=Maryland|pv=147,482|pv_pct=1.50%|ev=0}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=Benjamin Butler|vp_name=Absolom M. West| party=Greenback/Anti-Monopoly| state=Massachusetts|vp_state=Mississippi|pv=134,294|pv_pct=1.33%|ev=0}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=Belva Ann Lockwood|vp_name=Marietta Stow| party=Equal Rights| state=Washington, D.C.|vp_state=California|pv=4,194|pv_pct=0.04%|ev=0}}

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Source (Popular Vote): {{Leip PV source| year=1884| as of=July 27, 2005}}

Source (Electoral Vote): {{National Archives EV source| year=1884| as of=July 31, 2005}}

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File:1884 Electoral Map.png

Image:1884 United States presidential election results map by county.svg|Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

Image:PresidentialCounty1884Colorbrewer.gif|Map of presidential election results by county

Image:DemocraticPresidentialCounty1884Colorbrewer.gif|Map of Democratic presidential election results by county

Image:RepublicanPresidentialCounty1884Colorbrewer.gif|Map of Republican presidential election results by county

Image:OtherPresidentialCounty1884Colorbrewer.gif|Map of "other" presidential election results by county

Source: Data from Walter Dean Burnham, Presidential ballots, 1836–1892 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp 247–57.{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/data.php?year=1884&datatype=national&def=1&f=0&off=0&elect=0|title=1884 Presidential General Election Data – National|access-date=May 7, 2013}}

• California
• Nevada

• Connecticut
• Indiana
• New York

Margin of victory less than 1% (55 electoral votes):

1. New York, 0.10% (1,149 votes) (tipping point state)
2. Michigan, 0.82% (3,308 votes)
3. Connecticut, 0.94% (1,284 votes)

Margin of victory between 1% and 5% (117 electoral votes):

1. Indiana, 1.32% (6,516 votes)
2. New Jersey, 1.67% (4,358 votes)
3. Virginia, 2.15% (6,135 votes)
4. West Virginia, 3.19% (4,215 votes)
5. Tennessee, 3.72% (9,669 votes)
6. Illinois, 3.73% (25,118 votes)
7. Ohio, 4.05% (31,802 votes)
8. Oregon, 4.28% (2,256 votes)
9. Wisconsin, 4.59% (14,682 votes)
10. New Hampshire, 4.80% (4,056 votes)

Margin of victory between 5% and 10% (104 electoral votes):

1. Iowa, 5.24% (19,773 votes)
2. Maryland, 5.98% (11,118 votes)
3. Florida, 6.23% (3,738 votes)
4. California, 6.64% (13,081 votes)
5. North Carolina, 6.66% (17,884 votes)
6. Missouri, 7.47% (32,942 votes)
7. Massachusetts, 8.03% (24,372 votes)
8. Pennsylvania, 9.52% (86,019 votes)

Image:DanceCardCoverUSPresidentialCandidatesGroverClevelandEtc1884.jpg cover depicting the candidates]]

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