[Borges]

Keep in mind that Grover Cleveland signed the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 which was the first power grab by the Fed to regulate industry.

[Verginius Rufus]

Grover Cleveland did that? Now I'm disillusioned. I had thought Grover Cleveland was the first and last good Democrat President.

Well, I would give James K. Polk partial credit.

[Objective Scrutator]

Thanks for the link, Borges. Granted, Cleveland wasn't perfect (and forming the ICC is a pretty big strike against him), but he was far better than people like Benjamin Harrison who peddled the disastrous Sherman Silver Purchase Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act. (It's interesting how quickly the Republicans and Democrats swapped sides on the silver issue in 1896.)

Some good articles on Cleveland:

one (ignore the quips on modern foreign policy, his analysis of Cleveland's economic policies are spot on)

two

(Woodrow Wilson was originally a Bourbon Democrat, but rejected both the Bourbon Democrat commitment to protecting the gold standard and the Bryan camp's attempt to wreck American currency via silver in favor of creating the elitist Federal Reserve. Conservapedia's article on Wilson is far more favorable towards him than he deserves.)

James K Polk was probably the only President who managed to make good on every promise he made. Contrast him to the criminal vermin who occupy DC today.