The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-08

was the SlgHat IOF wiz anu tuHulLOus
cheering that fairly made the building
tremble. The Governor stood with uncoV-
cred head while the Hon. Henry Martin,
seventy-sixty years of age, president OF the
| Manufacturers and Traders Bank, and the
oldest bank in this city, as we'll as the
oldest ex-railroad conductor in the coun-
| try.welcomed him to the city. Mr.. Martin
said:
| Mr.. MARTINS ADDRESS.
Gov. CLEvELAND-In behalf of this
| thronging multitude of your old friends
and neighbors welcome you home to-
| night. You came to our city boy. You
learned your profession here, and for more
than twenty years have gone in and out
before us, respected, trusted and honored
| by all. In the course of time the public
veal demanded you, and regardless of
party affiliations, we elected you mayor.
The singIeness of purpose, therugged hon.
esty, the: faithful discharge of duty, the
| unpretentious yet ever watchful care of
the public interests which marked your
| administration of our civic affairs led the
people of this proud State by an overwhelm-
ing and unprecedented majority, to select
you rs their chief magistrate. You enter
ed upon this Office and while you have
held it you have had the public eye turned
fully at times upon you as a prominent
candidate for the Presidency, and at a
period remarkable in its demands for pure
and good government, and the reform of
old abuses, you have steadily pursued
your way, deciding every question which
has arisen out of the manifold affairs or
needs of this great commonwealth, or
which has been urged to the front by cum
ming opponents, with that same integrity
of purpose and the thoughtful care which
marked your career here at home, and
again has that fidelity to duty produced
its result and we welcome you tonight
as the Presidential candidate OF great
party and of thousands upon thousands
who recognize the demands of the public
service as superior to party ties, and we,
your old friends and neighbors, sir, bearing
toward You the full measure of high per-
sonal esteem, rejoice to know that in this
bitter campaign not one reputable man
has been able to point out one solitary
official act Of your administration and |
pronounce it subject to just criticism; that
not one reputable man has been heard 10 |
say that in one single official act you have |
made the interests of party or of self supe-
rior to>the public good, or for one instant
forgotten that your Office was sacred
and solemn trust, to be administered for
the best interest of the whole people, We
believe, sir, that the calm good sense of the
nation is with you to-night-rectitude
and earnestnes of purpose and fidelity to
duty and frmness in the discharge of duty
are at this day and time recognized as es-
sential in the chief executive of the repub-
lie, and that surely and resistlessly the
current of public sentiment is doing its
perfect work which shall end in your tri-
umphant election. We congratulate you |
sir, from our hearts upon the success which |
has marked your past career and upon the /
assurance of coming victory, and We vel
come you to the city whose chief pride to-
My hit is in the fact that it is the home of
Grover Cleveland.
Gov. Cleveland stepped to the front of
the platform when. there was another out
burst of cheering that lasted fully five
minutes and it was only with the greatest
the throng conld be quieted.
Then Gov. Cleveland, in q clear, strong
voice, that could be distinctly heard, spoke
as follows:
THE GOVERNORS REPLY.
FELLOW CITIzENs-I can hardly tell the
people of Buffalo how rejoice tonight,
and how grateful / am for this demonstra-
ion of the confidence and esteem of my
friends and fellow-citizens. ] have resided
lmong you and in this city, where all my
uccess in private life has been achieved,
or nearly thirty years. Tonight / come
o you after the longest absence that has
occurred in all that time, and yet within !!
he few weeks that have passed since saw
'ou last an event has happened of supreme :
Importance to me, and places me within the
atoms gaze. The honor il has brought t
0 me ask my fellow -townsmen to share, Q
rhile ! acknowledge with grateful heart all
hat they in the past have done for me.
applause But two short years ago You
lood steadily by my side in every effort
mine as the chief executive of our city 8
} advance its interests and welfare. What v
yer was able TO accomplish Of value to Il
ne community was largely due to your e
rong and intelligent support. Nor can /
ver forget the generous endorsement you b
ave my candidacy for the high Office b
hich I now hold in this State. / assure 8:
Ou that in its.administration have receiv- y
no greater announcement than the ap- &
rovai Of nv friends Il home. What / have !
en- and heard tonight has touched me Il
1CtAys tGlAo AA4C taAot ~ SIC VI
Ill my friends and assures me that have Il
it been altogether unsuccessful in my effort s,
deserve their confidence and attachment, a
years to come shall deem myself not q
r wrong if / still retain their good opinion a
ID If surrounding cares and perplexiteis 81
ing but anxiety and Fex4ti0n shall End %
lace and cQmfort in the memory of the th
Iys spent here and ID recalling tie kind th
50 Of my Buffalo friends. But other b
lends are here. tonight, and to all Of
10 tender me their kindly welcome I II
tend heart felt greeting as citizens with Of
: Of the greatest commonwealth ID the a.
terhood Of States, and one immensely vi
lerested IN the general veal. Because ] Of
Te my State and her people cannot re- al
in from reminding yo1 that she should Of
IN the van 81 every movement which AT
omises 3 safer and better administration ful
the general government 90 closely re- WI
ed to her prosperity and greatness. APP lme
suse. And let me leave you with the
night that your safety lies ii impressing pa
On the endeayOr of those intrusted With ri6
guardianship 81 your rights and inter. y.
! pure, patriotic and exacking popular On
timenf The charnctef 0f the gov POI
Iment ean hardly rise higher than 10
source non which il springs, and e.
integrity and faithiu1neaE Of public tws
wants Is not apt TO Be greater than Sir
people demanded. irsat cheer to-
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