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ALS, three pages, 8 x 10.5, personal Bangs, Stetson, Tracy & Mac Veagh letterhead, September 26, 1889. Handwritten letter to an unidentified friend, in part: “I am inclined to agree with you…concerning the matter of the State Committee etc. I utterly fail to see how it is that certain parties should…snatch and grab after the organization, as if a deadly fight was going on…I am in nobody's way and still the appearance is that I and my friends must be watched and circumvented. There will be a disposition to put upon the state ticket one or two of my firm personal and political friends…that the ticket may in that way be helped and so that the construction of the ticket may hereafter perish to the harms of our particular friends…
Now Charly I am not in this kind of small politics at all. I want to see the democracy of this state triumphant all the time and good democrats are good enough for me whether they are especially my personal friends or not…I don't like to see little tricks and selfish schemes…[might] hereafter endanger our success with the people…Some of our good friends…already see a plain design to subordinate our party aims…this should be nipped in the bud…I am decidedly of the opinion that policy and the best interests of the party dictate that for the present matters should be allowed to drift…They will not I think go so far that they cannot be righted.” In fine condition.
Written less than a year after leaving the White House following his defeat in the election of 1888, this letter finds Grover Cleveland navigating the internal politics of the New York Democratic Party during the period between his two presidential terms. Rejecting efforts to advance personal or factional interests within the state organization, Cleveland insists that “good democrats are good enough for me whether they are especially my personal friends or not,” while criticizing “little tricks and selfish schemes” that threatened to divide the party and weaken its appeal to voters. Reflecting the reform-minded principles that had defined his political career, the letter captures Cleveland as he sought to promote party unity while remaining the Democrats' most prominent national figure. Three years later, he would secure his party’s presidential nomination and return to the White House, becoming the first president in American history to serve two nonconsecutive terms.
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