Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-09-10
Gruve! Cleveland
HIS RECORD AS
A PUBLIC MAN.
The True Friend of the
Laboring Man.
THE ENEMY OF MO-
NOPOLY.

On the 18th day of last July, Grover
Cleveland, of New York, was nominated for
the Presidency by the Democratic Nation
al Convention, at Chicago.
The people of the country ask what his
record has been and what guarantees they
have that he will faithfully perform the
duties of the high Office for which he is a
candidate; and il is but just that their in
quiry should be answered fully and explic-
lilly.
Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell,
Essex county, N. j., March 18th, 1887. He
is, therefore, comparatively speaking, a
young man. He has been from youth up,
in every sense of the word a hard working
man. He commenced life with nothing
gained his education through his own en-
deavors, working in country store for
$50 for the first year with promise of
800 for the second; was an assistant
teacher and book-keeper in an institution
for the blind in New Nork City; read law
at odd hours and worked his way up slowly
but surely, without assistance from any
man.
All his worldly possessions consist of not
to exceed $4,000; and yet, notwithstand-
ing his humble beginning, and unostenta-
tious career, the people of the great city of
Buffalo, regardless of party, went to him
in the autumn of 1881 and begged him to
accept the nomination for mayor of that
city, and undertake to reform the city gov
eminent, which had fallen into the hands
of an organized corruption. So faithful
was his administration of the affairs of
that city that the people of the great State
of New York, regardless of party,
called upon him to do for the State what
he had done for the city, and in the fall of
1882 he became Governor of the State by
majority of 1872, 900, by far the largest
ever given to any state officer in any state
in the Union. So statesmanlike has been
his administration of the affairs of the
Empire State, so firm and steadfast his
opposition to everything corrupt, to
machine methods and ring rule, that the
Democratic party of the country, almost to
a man, looked to him to lead it forward in
the campaign that is before us.
This record is not a long one; il covers
n period OF but AZ years; 43 of that period,
with the exception of few terms in county
offices, were passed in the retirement and
and privacy of his own home and profess
sional business, and it is only within the
last four years that he has become known
to the public at large, yet, we may conf
IDENTIFY compare that record with the record
of the candidate of the Republican party.
Mr.. Blaine has written book which ad-
vertises the fact that he has passed twenty
years in congress. Yet, all these twenty
years of congressional life have not given
him the reputation for steadfast integrity
and sterling honesty and statesmanlike
ability, that the last three years have given
to the Democratic candidate.
The greatest contrast between Grover
Cleveland aid James G. Blaine, is the
devotion to the best interests
Of the public on the part of the former,
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and personal ends, on the part of the lat
ter. The next greatest contrast between
the two men is the fact that while Grover 1
Cleveland has worked hard all his life and {
paid close attention to the duties of his {
profession, and honestly filled any posi-
lion he has been called upon to occupy,
his total worldly possessions consist of not
more than five thousand dollars. While on
he other hand, Mr.. Blaine has spent |
,wenty years in congress at salary of
rom five to seven thousand dollars per 9
'ear, and in those years he has, some how a
'r rather managed toauAass fortune of q
i've millions, upon the salary of congress-
nan, which never exceeded seven thousand :
dollars per year. h
Were MIR. Blaine a professional man, or
man ostensibly engaged in any other Il
BUSINESS except that of politician. IL " y
night be possible to account for this large q
ortune without searching the annals of
ongress or of investigating committees i