The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-01
Grover CIeveland-An object Lesson in
 Character.

Chicago Journal
 Honesty Is the best policy. says an old proverb. Grover Cleveland's career Though he has passed through the fiery furnace of politics and publicity, though, like all men who have held high office, he has made ten enemies Tor every friend whose gratitude he has won by favors bestowed. though he has been denounced with unexampled re- hee,sy he was 0i head a%f and leader. though das- tardly insituations against his honesty have not been lacking in the mouths his spen SSsySt SSss wS.re thing he did could escape. his name has proved a tailisman to drive away the
 devils that possessed a great fiduciary in 1t, to assure the nation that here after, so long as he shall be connected | with it. will be managed with honesty. guided with intelligence.
 Today. after all these years. MT. Cleveland is almost universally recog- nized as the greatest living American citizen.
 more dazzling brtlliance. more of those
 superficial but showy qualities , Whien cn fascinate the popular fancy. But no Cleveland is. to possess the solid quail ties, the unswerving honesty. the sturdy common sense which together make up deal wholly with cause and conse-
 quence. and that mind is the stronge t conseauences. Judged by this standard. Mir Cleveland, if he lacks briiliancy, Is one of the wisest of men, and no wise
 man Is dishonest.
 They know that in the smallest affairs. as we'll as in the greatest, he can trace out the probable consequences of any
 act further than most of us. and that, having balanced the alternatives, he will infallibly choose what is best.
 It is this which prevented him from to use him as decoy for the money of the vain and silly rich, just as 1t pre- vented him from embracing the free sii- yer delusio1 df tfhSesEn Sesaat that promised vic- Many other men embraced 1t; to their cost. for there has happened to them to happen, They had their brief sea son of excitement. notoriety and adula- ton, but where are they nowf Dis. credited, despised; while the wise old whelmed by the free silver madness stands serene upon the rock.
 It is character that counts in the long neig ghbors' knowledge of 1t that made
 Mir Cl.veland sherifr first, and then Mayor of Buffalo. It was character
 that made him Governor of New York. defeat Blaine and made him President of the United States.
 It was character that compelled him to risk his political fortunes In order to give the nation, in his famous free trade message. the first warning against the growing perils in the great combinations of capital which are now recognized by everybody to be the one great menace to our institutions and our national life.
 It was character that forced him to endure unmerited obloquy resulting from the bond issues. for he saw that to avoid 1t he would have to plunge tho country into the free silver. abyss.
 Nothing befalls us," says .Maeter- linck, that Is not of the nature of our selves Whether you climb the noun tain. or go down the hill into the valley to the end of the world, or merely walk round your house. none but yourself shall you meet on the highway of fate" Cleveland's choice of friends and coun- selors. When was there ever a Presi- dents cabinet like the first cabinet of his. with it's Bayard, Daniel Manning, Fairchlid, Whitney. lwho founded the navy that was to destroy the sea power of Spain). Endicott. Lamar. Villas, J. Sterling Morton. Garland? And the Richard olney, Lamont. Smith. Dickin- son, BisselI, Wilson. Harmon. Francis if a man is judged by the company he keeps, any man would gladly be judged
 And now, after being tried by the fire of time, the pure gold of Grover Cleve- lands character Is one of the nations most precious and prized possessions.
 Nothing succeeds like success, for no real success is possible without charae- ter, and character always sneceeds tp Lfhe end.