<P> Benjamin Harrison Republican </P> <P> The United States presidential election of 1888 was the 26th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1888 . It saw Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, try to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S. Senator from Indiana . The economy was prosperous and the nation was at peace, but Cleveland lost re-election in the Electoral College, even though he won a plurality of the popular vote by a narrow margin . </P> <P> Tariff policy was the principal issue in the election . Harrison took the side of industrialists and factory workers who wanted to keep tariffs high, while Cleveland strenuously denounced high tariffs as unfair to consumers . Cleveland's opposition to Civil War pensions and inflated currency also made enemies among veterans and farmers . On the other hand, he held a strong hand in the South and border states, and appealed to former Republican Mugwumps . </P> <P> Harrison swept almost the entire North and Midwest (losing only Connecticut and New Jersey), and narrowly carried the swing states of New York (Cleveland's home state) and Indiana (Harrison's home state) by a margin of 1% or less to achieve a majority of the electoral vote . Unlike the election of 1884, the power of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City helped deny Cleveland the electoral votes of his home state . </P>

What helped republicans win the presidency and congress in 1888
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