Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-30
A Speech by Governor Cleveland.

At Buffalo on the night of the late
election, when it had become certain
that Grover Cleveland had been elected
by an unprecedented majority. the .citi-
zens gathered at the club-rooms and
presented the Governor-elect with a
magnificent chair. In accepting the
gift Mr. Cleveland said: 4
''My brother, Senator Titus, SAID that he had
unexpectedly been called upon to make
presume with much more truth, that am UNI
expect tdly called upon to say Il few words
upon this OCCASION and, in point of fact.
have almost forgotten how to speak. If ever
a man has been in lead ng strings the most
tedious and the most unyielding. have been
for the last five or six weeks. MY manager,
Mr.. Goodyear. has hardly allowed me to ask
for what wanted to eat and drink. could
not take my pen in hand but that he WITS,
afraid my chances were to he ru ned. My let
ter, of acc rptance even he thought would GER
tainly destroy all my chances. / did not sub
init it to him before ! signed it. | made a
b SIS for my Reputl can friends to scare
themselves out of their propriety. II was with
the utmost endeavor that we did induce about
100000 m ijorty of our voters to believe that
there was no very great calamity involved in
the election which has taken place to-day, and
its results. Now something has been said
about my ,tIrse as Mayor, which gives me an
sired to ". and it is this: that there has been
nothing in my course except adherence TO
the principles of honesty AMI decency, and It Is
commentary upon the times which should
sink deeply in our hearts, and which should be
an admonIti N to us that Il man should acquire
Icame near saying the reputation. 1 will say
the opportunities which l have acquired
simply by doing his honest duty. If doing
duty has singled me out, why think of the con-
man merely to do his duty and make m an
object of notice. If every body did their duty
there would be no such singularity as this, and.
as said before, it is something for serious re-
lection. feel most SOlemnly the RESPONSIBLE
ity which the event OF the day has put upon
my shoulders. sometime, have fsarei that
! may not be able to meet those responsible
ties in the way should. S lmetimes ] have
feared that may not meet your expectations
State were it not for the fact believe
most implicitly in the power OF. human
rectea a ne po@er e Wn ca % follow
should shlrk and shrink from the duties to
which the people have called me to-day. but l
believe, w th an honest and sincere desire to
do duty, with an eye single TO the good of the
people over whom I am c1lied that my path
viii be made plain, and that il adhere to the
h nest endeavor that shall succeed in my
duty and perhaps answer your expectation,
and / hope doing something f the State. |
des' re you still 10 regard DIN, me your fellow eiti-
member OF this club, which first nurtured the
" hfch has resulted in my promo
ton to-day. b pc yet to be your felow-eiti-
zen again. The present is beautiful, but sus-
piciouS. hope the; horns are not to remind
me that am to be upon he horns OF any
dilemma, but hope may sit comfortably be-
tween and not on those horns. hope that in
my official career NAV avoid such unpleasant
reflections rs they may suggest. I ear I'm mind
that whatever may happen in the futur. |
shall remembe. my associations with the me- M |
b RS of this club and all that they have done /
for me-"
"A monstrous .tumor. seventy lone |
pounds in we -ght, was re emily removed |
from the person of a patient in the en-
cinnati hospital lis considered by the
profession as an unusually succe 5sful OPP
grafton, as the excrescence was the larg-
est of the kind known. Chicago Hsratd. /
james Silkman of Yonkers, n. Y, |
the lawyer con ned rec months in the
Utica insane asylum, when, it's claimed,
be was all the time sane, has formed a