Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-05-18
The Next President.

AS a companion picture to the one
given last week, we now present q
likeness of the man who we firmly be-
lieve will be the next President of the
United States, Grover Cleveland.
Everything seems to point to this
result with unsrring certainty. If
ever The Office sought the man." it
is in this instance, when all opposition
is overcome months before the assem-
bling of the National Convention, and
the sentiment of the party has settled
upon an unanimous nomination by
acclamation.
The few complaints that have arisen
during his administration, are now
generally admitted by those who have
made them, to have been predicated
npon an imperfect understanding of
all the facts and circumstances that
surround the executive acts of the
ruler of so great a nation. 1t was
thought that he was slow in recogniz-
ing those timc-tried friends of DO
litical principles in accord with the
platform upon which he was elected,
but the result shows that ne has ac-
complished in different and probably
slower way, about all that could have
been reasonably expected in making
radical change in all the departments
of public service.
Grover Cleveland was born on the
18th of March 1887, at the little vii
lage of Caldwell, Essex county, New
Jersey. His ancestors had moved
into New Jersey from Connecticut,
and many of them were preachers.
His father, born at Norwich, was
settled at Caldwell rs Congregation
al pastor when Grover was born. He
was educated first ut the excellent
public schools of new Jersey, and then
at an academy in Clinton, Oneida
county, New York. When only six
teen years old, he came to the metrop-
oils to accept clerkship in the
Asylum for the Blind, where he is
lovingly remembered. When other
young men of his age would have de-
voted their leisure hours to the pleas
ures of the city, he was happiest when
reading to the inmates of the institu-
ton. and he thus improved his own
mind while relieving the cnnui of the
afflicted. He is next heard of making
his way West in company with an
enterprising young man, with Cleye-
land, Ohio, as his objective point, but
visiting while on his way an uncle re-
siding in Buffalo, he was induced to
remain in that city as clerk in the
store OF his relative. He was eighteen
years of age ut the time, an ambitious
young fellow, possessed of the earnest
desire to become a successful lawyer.
His uncle favored this aspiration.
and We find the youth clerk in the
office OF the Buffalo firm of Rogers,
Bowden e. Rogers and at the same
time enjoying the comforts of u good
home at his relatives house. He was
duly admitted to the Bar in 1859, and
remained with his old firm for years.
His markin the profession was made at
once, and i'll his twenty-sixth year he
was appointed Assistant District At
torney for Erie county. This position,
which he held for three years, gave
him thorough knowledge of public
affairs. In 1865, when the Democracy
was still under the cloud of the Civil
War, he accepted the nomination of
District Attorney, but was defeated. In
1866. Mr.. Cleveland became the law
partner of T. V. Vanderpool, and in
1909 he admitted Messrs. Laning and
Folsom to the firm. In 1870 he was
elected Sheriff of Erie county. In
1881 he was nominated by the Demo-
Gratis for Mayor of Buffalo, and his
name was hailed with enthusiasm by
all classes of the community. His
platform was that OF reform, and he
was triumphantly elected, running
several thousand votes ahead of his
ticket. His incumbency of the Office
was successful and popular. The
earliest report from the Democratic
State Convention spoke of Mayor
Cleveland's nomination for Governor
of New York in 1882, as surprise.
1t was no surprise to the men who
proposed the nomination, and he
was elected by an overwhelming