The Socorro chieftain., 1908-06-27
Mr.. CLEVELAND DEAD
The End Came Very Suddenly
Wednesday Morning at E1-
Presidents Princeton Home,
TWICE ELECTED PRESIDENT
The Whole Nation Mourns the Death
Of the Distinguished Citizen and
Statesman.

Grover Cleveland is dead. |
The sad announcement was made
Wednesday morning in a press
dispatch from Princeton, N. j.,
as follows:
Grover Cleveland, former
president of the United States,
died suddenly at his home at
Westland at $40 o'clock this
morning. Death was due to
heart failure, complicated with
other diseases, and the death
was not Immediately announced,
but was delayed until an official
statement had been prepared by
the physicians in charge. This
statement follows:
THE immediate cause of Mr..
Cleveland's death was heart fail
ure, complicated with pulmon-
ary thrombosis and oedema.
Mr.. Cleveland suffered for many
years from repeated attacks of
CASTRO intestinal origin. He
also had a long standing disease
of the heart and of the
kidneys"
THE SON OF A MINISTER.
Grover Cleveland was born at
| Caldwell, Essex county, New
Jersey, March IS, 1887. His
father was Presbyterian min
lister and soon after the birth of
the son the family moved to Syr-
acuse, New York. From Syra-
cuse he went to Clinton, where
he entered an academy and pur-
sued his studies several years.
Later he went to Buffalo.
He was admitted to the bar in
1859 and on his slim practice he
supported his mother until she
died in 1882. He was appointed
district attorney of Erie county
in 1868 and held that position
for three years. Unable to en-
list when the war broke out, he
borrowed money and hired sub
| Stitute.
At 20 he was the Democratic
candidate for district attorney
but was defeated and continued
his law practice until 1870, when
he was elected sheriff of Erie
county.
MADE RECORD AS MAYOR.
In 1881 Cleveland was the
Democratic candidate for mayor
of Buffalo and he won by a ma
iority of $3.50 votes, the largest
majority ever given a mayorality
candidate in that city. The
state Republican ticket carried
in that election in Buffalo by l.
900.
Cleveland soon acquired the
name of the veto mayor" and
during his first half year as
mayor he saved the city 81, ,000,-
900 which it had been spending
uselessly. His administration of
the Office won him many tributes
and in 1882 he was nominated
for Democratic candidate for
governor of the state. He won
the election by l92,854 and an
nounced his policy in letter to
his brother. Ito make the mat
ter a business engagement be-
tween the people of the state
and myself in which the obliga-
ton on my part is to perform
the duties assigned me with an
eye single to the interests of my
employers.
His administration was sue
cessful and he assumed national
proportions, becoming the dem
ocratic candidate for president al
{ Chicago July IL, 1884, against
James G.. Blaine, republican
BENJAMIN F. Butler, Labor anC
Greenback candidate. and Johr
: p. st. John, prohibitionist. He
| received 219 electoral votes t
| 1872 for Blaine.
| He was unanimously renom
mated June 8, 1888, at St. Loui
t but received only 168 electora
votes against 233 received b
: Harrison, although Cleveland re
/. ceived more than 100, 900 major
ity of the popular vote. At tn
end of his term he retired I
New York and practiced Law
! but at Chicago in 1892 he wa
s again nominated by the demo
y cratic convention as the cand
t date for president, receiving tw.
n thirds of the votes cast. Il
mas alactad rac,eiviuO 277 elel