Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1902-03-28
AROUND THE STATE.
4 Concise Report of Happenings
in Various Places.
PICTURE OF A c. CLEVELAND.

PICTURE OF A c. CLEVELAND.
A Denver exchange contains the fol-
lowing sketch of A. c. Cleveland. the
White Pine statesman, cowboy. ranch
er and all around good fellow:
II is happiness. genuine happiness,
to know and fraternize with A. c.
Cleveland. of Cleveland, Nevada. He's
such a fine old boy. Boy? it's said
apd let 1t stand for he has that seas
oning Of youth at which age yainly
ragea. His jolly rotundity. his gray
whiskers. his full ruddy face with new
or wrinkle. all jeer at Time and
brayely Did him come on and do his
worst
1t is rather hard To classify Mr..
Cleveland. He isn't pillar of
church, though he has heft" and stur
diness 10 qualify him potently for such
an important position. and, beside, he
looks the part; he is not high roll
err for he has graduated and has ac-
cumuated wisdom with his experience
The stockmen Of the west at whose
meetings he is always prominent
feature. say he is a bird, but the ornl-
tholigical characterization is vague
and general. But without further whit
tling it may be said with confidence
that Mr. Cleveland is far beyond the
ordinary
Consider him for an instant. The
greatest cattle raiser. perhaps, in all
the west. a man whose ranches are
twenty. and whose range is almost
State wide; man of simple tastes
and generous heart and a sense of hui
NOR that elings to him like an aura.
That's Mr.. Cleveland in brief, but to
amplify him and present him as he
really is would be so manifestly inn
possible that it would not be attempt
ed 1t will not be Improbable. how
ever to follow this brainy, bigsouled
sovereign of countless cattle and twice
that many broad acres through some
of his vielssitudes and let him speak
word or two for himself.
He lives at Cleveland a little town
of his own; MS home ranch, as he
calls it, for that is what il is, and an
It vas prior 70 its growth into a
-ariffy village. OF course he is a nan
Of unusual importance in his state
ana on two occasions he has s.umped
he ate in political campaigns. Once
he ran Tor Governor, and sensible
members OF a certain Legislature once
tried to give him the United States
senatorship. Int all his political ven
lures failed AMI do son know he's
glad of it He has never said this in
words, but his talk and manner show
it by indirection and he would hardly
deny it himself.
HIS anecdotes of campaign times
ole #rls5aE It's a pity that more of
then cannot be remembered Only
E
1T was while | was running for
Governor. he said, Il was down in
little place called st. Elmo. It was in
the afternoon and a number of ranch
men had gathered to take part in the
political demonstration of the evening.
or to listen curiously and perhaps jeer
/, toll
ing.
An old Irishman whom had never
seen before in my life came up to me
and said: 'Ye are Misther Cleveland
eh?'
u told him ! was.
".Shure and it's ovten DIVE heard o
ye said he. an about ye' hospitality
and how ye never vance TURNED a
way a hungry mon from ye house. And
they do be al spakn well o ye-but
Misther Cleveland
We'll. said |.
"'Oi'd loike To vote for yez.
Well said again
But cant, he said, on account o
the name o. Cleveland. Oi can't abide
amy wan be the same name o. Grover
Claveland-and maybe yere akin {
the spalpeen yerself
4 told him that the Clevelands were
all of one family, but that probably
the relationship between myself and
Grover was very remote.
All said he, but ye moight be a
closter relation L tn dommed divil
than We think v areir