Gubernatorial Race
As a sitting U.S. Secretary, he ran in 1882 for Governor of New York, but was defeated by Democrat Grover Cleveland.
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“The complaint ... about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernes, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.”
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