New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-23
CLEVELAND EXPOSED.
CONDEMNED Ar HIS HOME.
INDEPENDENTS AGAINST uM-AN oFFlCr-sErKER
STRONG WORDS FROM ufs UNCLE.

BUFFALO. Aug CIT is often asked II Grover
Cleveland was guilty of the things that have been
CHARGED against him here. why was lac elected
Navor of Buffalo. IL il not difficult question 10
answer There have been other Mayors of Buffalo
who would hardly he thought qualified to become
candidates for a high Office of any kind New-Yorl1
CITY and almost every other city has had similar
Mayors Bat perhaps IL would be we'll TO let one
OF BuflaO's respected ctizens-a leading lndepend-
emit who was one of those instrumental in noml-
mating Mr.. Cleveland for Mayor-answer the ques-
ton. Referring TO this subject Mr.. Rodney C..
Daniels recently said:
Il have known Grover Cleveland for many wears.
HIS law firm have been my attorneys.
always had Lyman X. Bass. who one of the
best lawyers Buffalo knew, attend to my
business His was one of the leading law firms in
the city. He was the advocate of the firm, the
other members attending principally to the office
business When ne was elected 10 Congress 1t he
came necessary TO have some one who could present
a case well in court take his place in the firm. Mr..
Cleveland was then taken into the firm. thus prac-
ticallv inheriting Mr.. Bass's large law practice.
That was one of several strokes Of good fortune
that have fallen to the lot Of Mr. Cleveland have
secu good deal of him In business way and
always liked him personally. He followed a quiet
life with his bachelor friends and never went into
society. and took no part I'm public affairs Hence
he was comparatively unknown to q large portion
of the citizens of this place.
ain 1851 the Board of Aldermen did many
things such M the Board Of Aldermen in New York
i. often accused of doing which brought down
upon II hc wrath Of the public fractional feeling
ran high ON the Republican sid" II viii hc teu"u
hrfei IN that year The president of the Bu1td of
Aldermen was accused nf drseftiug his friends. He
h.cnmr u candidate for Mnyot, and told him Tint
hc could not he elected hut hc was nominated by
the Republican macilue OF course he had 40 bcnt
nll the feeling against the Adefmen we'll as thc
opposition 0i thousands In his own party There
was % number of ns independents whu consulted
with the Democratic managers in order tn get them
f. name candidate we could support The Office
~ Mayor not desirable one ~ an active business
man. hence there was some trouble in securing
good candidate ST. Clevelands name was not.
believe. among those we discussed ~ frat with the
democratic leaders The Democratic nomination
wis offered 70 ST. pelavan = ClafR to Mr l.. q.
woodruff. ~ 81 " lisspll one ~ Ceveaul's
paffnnfs thp vas 10 the firm, with iit Hass and ~
ullnts vino declined remember beinH asked ovnf
tho telephone late 9hn night hY Democratic leader
II cleveland would tn acceptable 80 tho lhdrprhd
SIT Republicans I replied that I thought they
would support him. The same question askad
of others. sir Cleveland dld not want tho nomina-
tiou either bat be- accepted aud Of course under
the circumstances easily elected heard at the
time that some of Mr. Cleyelands friends went L.
the opposition newspaper offices and arranged IN
advance that the campaign should be conducted
free from all personal matters, which will per hdps
account for the fact that many eminent clergymen
were not AT that time aware OF things that have
since come to their knowledge
AS Mayor Nh Cleveland did his duty the few
months he was in Office. The Board of Aldermen at
tempted. among other things TO let the contract
for street cleaning 10 a bidder who more than
100000 higher than other responsible bidders.
Every uewspaperand, for that matter, almost every
taxpayer condemned such a notorious job Mr.
Cleveland as Mayor, Of course vetoed the Job in a
ST nging message. He could hardly have done
otherwise His veto attracted attention outside of
the city. At that time the Democrats were looking
for a candidate for Governor who would draw the !
disaf .cted Republican vote. Cleveland had been I
successful IN getting it Mayor and that gave him
his start But ne was not elected Mayor because o.
any public service or because he was particularly
we'll known. As l said before he scarcely If
ever heard Of in public way previous TO that time
although a man long past middle life
HOW II. CAME TO BE NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR.
II is well known by all politicians in the State
that when Mr.. Cleveland first mentioned for
Governor by the Buffalo newspapers the idea of ms
nomination was secuted. Mr.. Flower and General
Socum were the conspicuous candidates for the
Democratic nomination. Mr.. tloWeI canvass mai
been sIiliullv worked mp by Mr. James Brlen. and
for that reason lee was not IN favor with the Nam
nng machine General Slocum had once run on an
Independent ticket in Brooklyn in opposition
10 Bos, Mclaughlin, hence he was not in
favor TIA the machine, merely having
tine surface support of the BROOKLYN delegates
Those two men were tine two leading candidates
when the convention met IN Syracuse. Portrait, of
Mr. Cleveland with eulorstc sketches of his life
and alleged public services were widely circuI ated
ID advance OF the convention. Dlr Manning OF