Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-07-15
TINS DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.
The Leading Incidents In the Careers
of Stephen Grover Cleveland and
Thomas Andrews Hendricks.

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The Loading Incidents In the Careers
of Stephen Grover Cleveland and
Thomas Andrews Hendricks.
stephen Grover Cleveland liz essentially a man
OF the masses. OF humble birth aud Obliged 10
earn his own living at an carry age, he has SIM
ply by the force OF his character, his strong In
tollect and sterling honesty, raised himself TO the
commanding position that he now occupies In
tho nation. II was born In 1887. In the little
town OF Caldwell, Essex county, Now Jersey
His father. Richard Falling Cleveland, was a
PIesby terrain minister who, TO better supp 10 his
own large family, moved from Growers village
birthplace TO Fayetteville, New York. when the
boy was but three years 81 age. The itio two
story and half house where the Democratic
nominee first saw the light. Is still statding
Fayetteville IVES then country village. TIL, nc
Grover Arst attended school At the age Of II
he was placed In the Fay etteyile country store,
where he was to receive : % the first year and
800 the next when these two year, had cN
pirci he was pressed TO stay longer His habits,
behavior and hdeli had made u marked i'm
preston on his employers. About that time the
minister removed to the town Of Clnt Grover
had arlently desired m academic education. the
village school having only whetted his appetite
for knowledge. At clinton he was given an op
portunity to crafty his inclinatons and became
u f1iEn 1tHppi VhiFs ihN lh' 'N'hN'h'N " ~
family there WAS not # ling Duration They
moved up the hlnc river to Holland Patent, u
village fifteen miles moth OF Utica. The minis
ter had bee there but three Sundays when he
suddenly died, and the main support Of the fam'
~ was lost.
ApRitT IN TIE WORLD
Grover went to New York, where he obtained
u position at a small salary, teaching In an asy
lum for the blind under the management Of Gus
schell There he remained two years, working
assduously At the ehd Of that time he detorn
ined to hew out a better pathway for hims,lt In
the world. Lewis +. Ale ., u noted stock breeder
residing at Bun ,lo. was the young mans unclt.
arover went TO him. He had an ambitioa TO
stndy law, and SO informed his uncle, but the
latter reviewed this aspiration with prrjudictd
eye, and ms hrs nephew had no money, offered to
allow him TO remain aud tahulate his herd book
his re ompense for the years wo k 10 he $50
while editing the book. the young man endeay-
ored Ia find an open place In a law office, and by
his perseverance st last won seat among the
clerks of Rogers, Bowen 4 Roger. lie was first
an office bo, there. having the use Ct the law H.
brary aud getting few dollars a week for his
services. out of these small earnings he had to
pay for his beard At Il washing lie was still
staying at his uncle's, and the walk from and TO
there was long The Winter was very severe.
coat
SUCCESS THRou0n fRIvATioS.
at night he was comoeed to stand by the warm
chimney in the lott where he sept and dry his
feet after tiamping the two miles through the
SNOW. He unhinchingly pursued his studies,a and
one night was so intent on mastering law vol
ume that lie was locked In the office and remain
ed there till morning. lie continued to assist
his uncle in getting out the breed book. Phys
cal dscomforts, instead of weakening his purpose,
only made him more resolute to succeed ifva-
tons and the miseries that attended his youug
.s.N ..ru nl n a. n
exertious. For four years he remained in Reg.
ers Bowen Rogers office, an at that tin had
been raised 10 the position q managing clark,
Une OF hi associates describes him rs being then
remarkable for his three traits of indomita bio in.
du-try unpr,tentrus courage and answering
honesty lie was thorough man at any thing
he undertook, In 1865 he was appointed With
out any solicitation on his part Assistant District
Attorney OF Erie county. In 1868 he was nomi-
mated on the Democratic ticket for the office Of
District Attorney. He was beaten by the hepub.
lican candidate, Lyman Il. nass. lie continued
the practice Of law until 1862, when he was ooc-
ted Sheriff OF Eric county. Ills regard flr the
public ueliare, unmindiul of partisan inter- sts
earned him general respect AMI commentator
while in that office. At the close OF his term he
associated himself with Ids former antagoni t.
Mr. Bass. lie achieved distinction as lawyer
second to few in Western New York
Ar Form MAYOR
His mental qualities, to-ether with his former
official career, marked him rs the popular cho;ce
for Mayer of buffalo in 1881, when that city was
bent on reform ia It's municipal management
His election was great trium ph and lifted him
into national prominence. He received the
largest majority ever given to CANDIDATE in
that city. His inaugural message was a straight
forward document, an told in plain words the
honesty of the man In it he said;
I'VE hold the money ,f shc people in our
hands to Dc used for their purposes aud TO
further their interests as numbers Of the munich
pality, and it is quite apparent that when any
part Of the fund which the taxpayers have thus
intrusted us are diverted to other purposes, or
wleh bS dess.n or neglect, We allow greater
sum to he applied TO any municipal puri ose
than Is u cessary, we have. TO that extent. vio
Ia our DUTY There surely is no difference in
hi duties and obligations whel her a person is
intrusted Wi the money Of one man or many
And vet it sometimes appears ~ though the OF.
e holder assumes hat different rule OF iido
~ prevails between him and tn taxpayers than
that which should regulate his conduct when, ms
an individual he holds the money of his neigh
Dor"
When it came to vetoing street cleaning
steal he thus declared himself This is time
for plain speech, and my digestion TO Your action
shall be plainly stated. regard 1t as the cul-
mination OF most bar, ,ced. impu,lent and
shameless scheme to hetray the interests of the
people aud to worse than squander the public
money. We are fat gaining positions in the
or tdcs OF public stewardship. There is no mid
either in T cut of your honorable body, are
against hem and should he treated according.
~ On this contract and on that tor sewer he
saved the city Of Buffalo SOLE $50 during the first
six months of his administration. He brought
about order and economy in all the departments
of the city government effecting a saving Of
hundreds of thousands of dollars,
A REFORM GOVERNOR.
The following year after the Mayortlty had
been conferred on him he was nominated for
Governor Of New York state. His Republican op.
ponent was Secretary OF Treasury Folger. Yet OF
withstanding all the powerful aid that the Adj
ministration lent this member of the Cab net the
country heard with wonderment and eNultation
the morning after the election that the reform
candidate, Grover Cleveland, had been chosen by
the unprecedented ma jnrily OF ZOE 600. His nd
ministration since he took the Gubernstoral
chair has been Of positive character, and has
commanded Tor him the admiration and respect
OF even his political opponents. President A. u,
White, of Cornell University, writing to Henry
A. Richmond, of Buffalo, New York last year
expressed himself rs follows: II will say to you
frankly that am coming to have very great
respect and admiration Tor our new Governor.
His course on the r. tratcd Railroad Till tirsl
commented him to me Personally. | should
have been glad to have seen that company re
cetve slap. But the method OF administering
it seemed TO me very insidous, and even danger
Gus, and glad was to see that the Governor
rose above all the noise and clap crap which WAS
thls u hhOut TIE question, went 10 lNt lltuN
mental point of the matter and vetoed the bill,
think his rourse at that time gained the respect
Of every thinking man in the state. As to hi,
veto of the Buffalo Fire Department hill, that
I think, begins to lift him into national promi
nenco and when you add such significant sign
a. his reported dealing with the Palmyra states
man he really begins to loom up. II is refresh
ing to find that spark OF the
OLD IgffBssoSiAS srArEsNASsnIr
. IL. t.,
this State and elsewhere among thinking men is
| think, growing decidedly loose Great nun
hers of men are quietly on the lookout for men
who can grarple, not with the Id abolition
ques iou or the G, IL war question, but with the
question Of a real reform in our civil service
tine que stion of the present and future. No man
and no party can be built up OF kept up clap
trap, but on real determination and power 10
move in this new line parties and men can alone
be brought TO supremacy Thus far every party
which has rived ut power and kept il for any
length Of time has represented some real princi-
pie something which commended itself II not to
a ajorty at least to an aggressive body Of We
tiers, even though that body be small The pres
eut time is no exception to this rule. Congratu-
lating you on the record Of the Governor thus
far and in common with vast numbers Of our
fellow citizens. longing that he may be the man
we have all been looking for, remain" etc
Governor Cleveland reckons his ancestry back
to Aaron Cleveland, who was born in Connect.
cut in l74I and who was in the Legislature OF
that State The nominees
PERSONAL APPEARANCE
Il thus described: His face no less than his
ii. ure aud action, indicates strenuous vital force
and that admirable coordination OF faculties
which IL best expressed ia the phrase, u cool
head" Those traits which 10 part the re-
suit Of early and constant self-trainiug have
given him the air Of conscious aud quiet power
which belongs only to the triumphant antago.
mist In the worlds fight. His figure betokeus
hercdlean observation-disclosures Is the best
word it-and there is In the smoothly shaver
face the same token OF equal solidity Of charac-
ter, with the suggestion Of physical vigor in the
soft brown mustache that strongly contrasts
with the scantness OF hair on his head. There
is a slight tendency 20 corpulency-as is usually
the case in vital temperatnents and double
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