The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-06-25
CLEVELAND
PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY
END or THE eREAT DEMOCRAT TWICE PRESIDENT or THE UNI
TED STATES CANE QUIETLY YESTERDAY MORNING AT
FAMILY RESIDENCE At PRINCETON.

net. Ng. Folger was regarded as a
particularly strong candidate. yet
Cleveland was elected governor by a
plurality Of 1s2,s54 over Folger and
BY clear majority Of 151.742 over
all the candidates.
Grover Cleveland was cordially
disliked by the politicians in his par.
ty, BUT his reputation among the peo-
pie as a plain, practical. businesslike
executive had grown SO wide that in
the summer of 1884. before the expira-
tion of his gnbernatorial term, there
was an insistent cali for him to ac-H
scept that high political preferment
which in the letter TO his brother he
had declared was not In his head. The
great mass of the democracy through
out the country believed that Cleye-
land was honest and that nothing
could turn him aside from course
which be believed to be right. He
was nominated for president at the
Chicago convention OF 1884. his repub,
lican opponent being James G. Blaine.
Mr. Cleveland received a small plu-
rality of the popular vote and an ell
ectoral majority of thirty seven. For
the first time since 1856 the democrat.
tic party had carried the presidential
election.
Mr. Cleveland received the demo
cratic nomination for president in
1888. but was defeated in the election
by Benjamin Harrison of Indiana,
Many democrats attributed his defeat
TO his tariff message of 1887. After
Mr.. Harrison's election and the conse.
quent TRADE Of criticism from mem.
bers Of the presidents own party Mr.
Cleveland sent for the speaker of the
house of representatives. John G. Car
Isle, a democrat, and said to him. II
every other man in the country aban
dons this issue. / shall stick to IT.
Accordingly in the last message oi
his term he stuck to- his stand an
the tariff problem. urglna congress in
1882 to enact laws IN line with his
suggestions of the winter before.
/ Cleveland retired to private life
March 4. 1888, ard settled in New
York city for the practice of law.
He was again nominated by the
democrats in 1892. and after an In.
tterim Of four years in private life,
Grover Cleveland returned to Wash.
iugton and was inaugiirated president
f0f the United States on March 3. 1893.
flor the second time. The Cleveland
iof 1899 was very different from The
Icleyeland Of 1888 When he began
This first term he was altogether new
10 Washington and to national poll
tics He was practically an untried
man IN the wider field Of statesman
ship and was but inst completing his
forty-eighth year. In 1893, at the very
mature age Of fifty six Mr.. Cleveland
lhad enjoyed distinction unique in
American history that of being elec
ted president, renominated and defeat
ed and again renoninated and elected
he had served one full term, with all
1.-THE experience in national and inter
national politics which that service
entailed.
Mr.. Cleveland settled for himself
the problem as to what to do with an
ex-president BY retiring gracefully ID
Princeton y. T. in the shadow of the
great university which he as a poor
boy vainly had hoped to enter Here
he built home and grew old with his
family Of bright young children gorw
ing up about him. Two more girls
and two boys were born.
In 1903 Mr.. Cleveland was intro
duced IN St Louis as the most dis.
tinguished private citizen in the
world z BY that time his political op
ponents Of the great parties. general
~ speaking, had come to look upon
him as historical figure, and by the
vast majority of Americans the ven
erable ex-president was regarded as
q true patriot. an honest public ser.
want and an able chief executive.