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Murchison letter
The Murchison letter was a political scandal during the United States presidential election of 1888 between Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, and the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison. The letter was sent by Sir Lionel Sackville-West to "Charles F. Murchison" (actually a political operative posing as a British expatriate); in the letter, Sir Lionel suggested that Cleveland was preferred president from the British point of view. The Republicans published this letter just two weeks before the election, and turned many Irish-American voters away from Cleveland. Cleveland lost New York and Indiana (and as a result, the presidency). Sackville-West was sacked as British ambassador.
==History==
A California Republican named George Osgoodby wrote a letter to Sir Lionel Sackville-West, the British ambassador to the U. S., under the assumed name of "Charles F. Murchison". "Murchison" described himself as a former Englishman who was now a California citizen and asked how he should vote in the upcoming presidential election. Sir Lionel wrote back and indiscreetly suggested that Grover Cleveland, the Democratic incumbent, was probably the best man from the British point of view.
The Republicans published this letter just two weeks before the election, where it had a galvanizing effect on Irish-American voters exactly comparable to the "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" blunder of the previous election:〔Charles W. Calhoun, ''Minority Victory: Gilded Age Politics and the Front Porch Campaign of 1888'' (2008).〕 by trumpeting Great Britain's support for the Democrats, it drove Irish-American voters into the Republican fold. Cleveland lost the presidency. Following the election, the lame-duck Cleveland administration brought about Sackville-West's removal as ambassador,〔Charles S. Campbell, Jr. ("The Dismissal of Lord Sackville." ) ''The Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' 44:''4'' (March 1958), pp. 635–648.〕 citing not merely Sackville's letter (which could have been defended as a private correspondence unintended for publication) but also the content of his subsequent interviews, for example with a reporter for the ''New York Herald'':
Cleveland returned to the White House in the election of 1892.
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