Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-23
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Brief Sketch Of the Man Who VIII Again
Lead the Democratic Forces.

Lead the Democratic Forces.
"Grover Cleveland's luck" or "his star"
have been terms which men have used in speak
ing Of a career which shows many sharp con-
trasts and which illustrates the possibilities that
open up before any American citizen, however
humble. In the comparatively short interval
of fifteen years from an obscure lawyer he rose
successfully to be sheriff, mayor, governor and
President of the United States There ia yet
standing in the little town of Caldwell, Essex
county, N. "a small two-and-a-half story frame
dwelling, in which Grover Cleveland was born
on March 10, 1887. His father was a Presby-
terrain clergyman with q large family and q
small income. Grover was the fifth Of nine
brothers and sisters. The family is of Yankee
stock, and Grover Cleveland's ancestry dates
back to the early settlers in Connecticut. When
Grover was three years old his father, with his
family, moved by way of the river and canal to
Fayetteville. n. Y, and here the boy was sent
to the district school till he was fourteen years
Of age. Then the family moved again to the
Holland Patent, near Utica, where after he had
preached three sermons the father sickened and
died, and the children were scattered. Grover,
fifteen years Of age, went to New York to assist
his brother William, who was teacher in q blind
asylum. After two years he tired Of this, and
with q romantic notion that fame and fortune
awaited him by virtue Of the similarity Of
names in the city of Cleveland he started with q
few dollars in his pocket for the northwest.
On his way he stopped to see an uncle, who
was stock breeder, residing near Buffalo, and
accepted employment with him while looking
around for chance to study law.
He began work in the law Office Of Rodgers,
Bowen d Rodgers at % per week and the priv
nege Of Studying during his spare hours. These
were bitter years of sslf-denial for the young
law student. For the greater part of his first
winter he had to 60 without an oyercoat, his
shoes were dilapidated and he had to endure
the polite jibes Of his fellow students and clerks
Within four years he was admitted to the bar
and became the managing clerk for his pre-
eeptors. In 1868 he was appointed assistant
district attorney for three. years, and then was
nominated by the democrats and defeated for
the district attorneyship.
In 1870 he was elected sheriff Of Eric county.
which Office he filed three years and then re-
sumed the practice Of law. $685.. u
In 1881 the Encouragement Of municipal
affairs in Buffalo was such that there was loud
cry for reform and Grover Cleveland was pe-
lected a. the reform candidate for mayor. He
was elected. He became known e. tho ssveto
mayor" using that prcrogAtive without fear or
favor to call . halt upon unwise, Illegal or ex-
and enforcing strict compliance with the re-
quirements Of the state constitution and the
city charter. His management Of affairs wAs
such that the eyes Of the politicians Of the STATE
were disscted toward him. He doomed rapidly
into prominence and in the following year was
nominated BY the democrats for governor Of