The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-18

Grover Cleveland, Democrats Nominee.
Grover Cleveland, Democratic candidate
ior President and present Governor of New
Yolk, was born at Caldwell, Essex County,
n. j., March IS, 1887. His father was
minister, and Mr.. Cleveland has living rela-
lives prominent among the Protestant
clergy, not to speak of his numerous cleri.
al ancestors. After receiving such in
,truction IS was prOcurable from
he common school in various
places of the parental residence, young
Cleveland was sent to the Academy at Clin-
ton, Oneida County, N. Y. Upon leaving
this seat of learning, he went to New York
City, where he filled for some time the po-
sitiOn of clerk in an institution of charity.
He subsequently started West, but visiting
while on his way, an uncle residing in
Buffalo, he was induced to remain
in that city, as clerk in the store
of his relative. He was eighteen
years of age at the time, an ambitious young
fellow possessed of the earnest desire to
become successful lawyer. His uncle
favored this aspiration, and secured him
place as clerk i'm the Office of a prominent
law firm and at the same time he enjoyed
the comforts of a good home at his rela-
tive's house. He was admitted to the bar in
1859. His first political Office was Assis-
tant District Attorney for the County of
Erie. He held the position three
years, until the end of his superiOrs
term of Office, when he was nominated for
District Attorney on the Democratic ticket,
but defeated. In 1870, five years after this
failure, he was elected Sheriff of Erie
County, and i'm November. 1881, was elected
Mayor of Buffalo by a decisive majority.
In 1882 the Democratic State Convention of
New York nominated him for Governor
and he defeated the Republican candidate,
Mr.. Folger. the present Secretary of the
Treasury, by nearly two hundred thousand
majority. This brought him prominently
forward as candidate for the Presidency.
Mr.. Cleveland is bachelor.
The Nominee for vice-President.
Thomas A. Hendricks, the nominee for
Vice President, was born in Muskingum
County, Ohio, September z, 1919. Three
years later his father moved with his family
to Indiana. Mr.. Hendricks graduated at
South Hanover College in 1S41 and imme-
diately commenced the study of law. He
was admitted to the bar in 1913. In 1916
he was elected to the Indiana Legislature,
and i'm 1850 was member of the State
SouSliIutlOH" SouNCiieiOH. hC iVPtO
,ented the indianapolis district in
she Legislature from 1851 to
1855, when he was appointed Commissioner
of the General Land-office by President
Pierce, which office he held until 1859. In
1860 he ran for Governor of indiana, but
was beaten by Henry S. Lane. He was
elected United States Senator in 1868, and
served upon several important committees
with ability, and became recognized as
party leader. In 1865 he again ran for
Governor, and was also prominent candi-
date for President in the same
year and came near receiving the
Democratic nomination. He was again
before the National Convention in 1872, and
defeated only by the fusion incident to the
times, but he was chosen Governor of In
diana. In 1876 his friends confidently
expected his nomination for the Presidency,
but Mr.. Tilden had succeeded in carrying
New York, was very popular and succeeded
i'm securing the nomination, with Mr..
Hendricks for Vice-President The events
connected with that memorable campaign
| and the results of the Electoral Commission,
are still fresh in the minds of the people.
Since then Mr. Hendricks has given his at
tention to the practice of his profession.