The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-24
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Some Points In the Life of Our Next
President

Mr.. Cleveland is about the last as
ian one would pick out of full room d
t men as the candidate for governor b
f great state" wrote a visitor two a
ears ago. "And the very last one as G
candidate for presiden. :" would per- a
laps be the remark now. at is not" s
he same interviewer explained, that Q
lis appearance fails TO indicate the 1
iignity and bearing that one would
expect to see in a man fitted for the {
office, but because of his freedom from /;
Ill the restraints under which candl-
dates usually labor, his frankness OF
speech, his apparent Inconsistencies
that he is in any way the most con-
spicuous man in the politics of the
time, and his quiet attention to daily
duties. Hes the easiest man in But
falo to see." said native" you'll
find him nearly all day at bis desk IN
the mayors office. If he isn't there
you'll find him at work in his little |
back office on Main street. You won't |
have to state your business to any
messenger or private secretary, ana
you don't want anybody to present
you. Just walk in and introduce
yourself, and you will feel at home IN
a minute"
EARLY LIFE.
The general public, however, needs
an introduction to the democratic can
didate for president. Grover CleVe-
land was born in Caldwell, Essex
county, n. j., March IL, 1887. lie Is
descended from an old New England
family OF eminent responsibility. His
father was Richard Cleveland, Pres
byterian Minister, who removed from
Norwich, Conn.,, to New jersey.
Grover obtained as good an education
| as possible from the common schools,
and at the age of 10 years he was sent
to the acadamy at Clinton, Oneida
county, N. Y, where he remained for
short time. The family then moved
up on the Rlack River, to what was
known as the Holland Patent-a vii
lage of 500 or 5000 people-ffteen
miles north of Utica. The elder
Cleveland preached but three Sundays
in this place, when he suddenly died
. Grover first heard of his fathers death
while walking with his sister in the
streets of Utica. This event produced
the usual breakup of the family, anN
t we next hear of Grover Cleveland
7 setting out for New York city to &C
cept at small salary the position o
under-teacher in an asylum for tn
!. blind, where, at the time the sine
e well-known Gus Shell was executiv
n officer. He remained there two years
HE GOES WEST.
. Being of an energetic and ambition
nature, however, young Clevelan
; started out at the age of IL to seek n
r fortune in the west. Something like
! poetic instinct turned his steps Il
!. ward the city of Cleveland, o., bu
IL stopping in Buffalo to visit his uncl
It the Hon. Lewis F. Allen, he was IL
It duced to make that place his HON
# "See here" said his uncle,a well know
y stock breeder, 81 want somebody
e. get up my herd book this year. 70
d, come and stay with me and help m
IN and I'll give you $50 for the year
= work. and YOU can look around
Here it is that we find the boy annot
IL ting shorthorns out at Black Roc
Jy two miles from Buffato. But he Ike
lie his eve out for chance to enter a la
If office while he was editing the stot
book, ahd one day he walked bold
into the room of Messrs. Roger
Bowen 81 Rogers, and told them VIII
he wanted. There was a number
Young men in the place already. b
d. Young Cleveland's persistency VIC
g. and he was finally permitted to cor
- as an office boy and h+ye the use of t
Il law library. For this he received t
y, nominal sum of of SO or 81 wee
IS out of which he had to pay his boa
va and washing. The walk to and fro
his uncle's was long and at that til
no rugged one.
W IN LAW AND POLITICS.
IT After four years in the Office,
81 1859, Cleveland was admitted to pr
ct, tice. In 1868 the question OF W
ed should be appointed assistant dlstr
- attorney for the county OF Erie W
ne warmly discussed by the young la
us yers in Messrs. Rogers u Bower
he office. There were several that we
ma both eligible and anxious, but 1T dc
not appear that young Cleveland
ne vanced his own claims. Indeed, II
on a fact that after the matter had be
,n- pretty well canvassed they all agrt
or. that he was the person that ought
o. have it, andsthey urged him to acc'
ale it, and he was appointed. Althou
Ids only % years old, he acquitted hi
i've self creditably and won much pol
nt larity during the three years that
~ Nv held the position. In 1860 he v
or nominated by the Erie county den
int Gratis for district attorney, but v
)ut defeated by the Hon. Lyman K. b
nm by a small majority. Mr.. Clevela
formed law partnership with
lat late Maj. 1. V. Vanderpool in Ia
by but Maj. Vanderpoel was elected
ost lice justice soon afterward, and ]
no Cleveland became member OF
'ro firm of Laning, Cleveland q Folsc
III, of which the late Senator ATTAIN
led was at the head. In the fall of Il
mt Mr., Cleveland was elected sheriff
elf Erie county, an Office which he b.
&c for three years. Soon after retlrl
Ui' from the Office he entered into copa
le, nership with his old political adve
Try airy, Congressman Lyman K. Ba
nd under the firm name of Bass. Gle
inf land & Bissen. Upon the removal
10 Mr.. Bass to Denver, Colo, few we;
ne ago, the firm became Cleveland, u
lar sell & Sicard, and it now ranks amo
the first in Erie county.
ira MAYOR, GOVERNOR AND MAN.
oo In 1881, when large proportion
% the republicans of Buffalo revolt
ISL against "ring" rule, Mr.. Clevela
Nv was shrewdly nominated by the den
es- Gratis as their candidate for mayor,
or the expectation that his personal pc
luarity would win the votes OF t
u disaffected republicans. Although y
as Cleveland refused to make person
m canvass, he was elected by more thi
of 5000 majority in the city, that Ct
~ usually be counted on for from ~
~ to 1900 republican majority on sta
n or national issues. AS mayor, N
We Cleveland commanded general respet
m His election to the goyernorshll
- year later is within everyones mel
a DRY. This brief record covers Il
&c whole of Governor Cleveland's pub
RS career.
e" The Democratic candidate for pres
N dent is a little above the mediu
- height, with portly and well-propo
Oh toned figure. His head. which is s
d squarely upon pair of broad shout,
D. ers, is well shaped, and is surmounte
IF by a thin layer of dark hair tinge
If with gray. His features are reguls
- and full of intelligent expression. II
G eyes are penetrating in their glanc
Il He wears no beard, but a heavy dar
l. mustache completely covers his mout
. and underneath is square, firm chill
: In his movements Mr.. Cleveland