Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-07-01


 Tn 1866 he was chairman of the county committee. He had few intimate friends but was favored by a strong following of men attracted by his pow. cr of leadership. In 1870 he was elect cd sheriff and filled the office for three years.
 Then hc returned to the law. Sue. cess was gained by hard, faithful work. | He had never been accused of being brilliant, but he was thorough and gain. cd by conscientious digging the vie. tory that came 10 others by so.callcd genius.
 In 1881 he was elected mayor of Buffalo, as Democrat, by a plurality of $500. The candidates on tho Re. | publican state ticket carried the city by 1900. After the election Cleveland said in letter to his brother that he | proposed Co stand in the relation of an employe to the people of the ci'.. His one aim would be to render faith. ful service to his employer.
 In carrying out this resolution he be. came known as the "veto mayor" II was an honorable title. Buffalo had long been in the grip of interruptions | pi,iticians.
 Grown arrogant from power and rich from graft they had come to rega,d rule wholly to their interest ss a settled right. Mayor Cleveland disabused their minds. Raids on the treasury were blocked by his veto. Ofiiceholdc.s wore warned that their allegiance was due the people. Claims of friendship and tho pressure of powerful influence were without effect upon him. His sturdy fights in the interest cf his "cm. ploycr" were widely published and at. tractcd attention throughout the state.
 So it happened that when the Demo. crats in 1889 cas, aboii. for n candidate for governor their eyes naturally turn. cd toward Buffalo. Grover Cleveland was placed at tho hcai of their ticket. lIc was elected over Crss |. Folger. then secretary of ttc treasury, by c0O.. OoO plurality
 ] Clcveland's record as m1y"r and his 1 overwhelming vic'otr iu tho clcc,iCu made him q national fgU-". There was widespread curiosity as to the course hc would pur-u" as governor. He gained new celebrity through his vctoes He rcffained from discourses on public affairs ani framed nc theory of government but h. gave keen at.en. ton to the matters brought before him for action. When these .cmci not to be for the public gool his disapproval was expressed promptly and with the plainest words in his vocabulary. From l2 to l4 hours day were dcvotci to the investigation of bills and reports submitted to him for action. Only July 1T, 1884, in Chicago, he was nominated to oppose Jas. G.. Blaine in the campaign for the prcsi' dcncy. 4 slender plurality in New York state turned the scale and he be. | came the first democratic president since the Civil war. The second time in his life that hc visited Washington was wnen hc went to the capital to take office as president. His bearing on the stand erected for the inaugural revealed his nastcrful character 10 the experienced statesmen who sat around him. Stretched before hIm were more people than he had ever seen assembled for any purpose. They were cnthusi astc. but neither their demonstrations nor thought of the grave responsibli ties nc WAS about to assume infected him in the slightest degrcc. He was calm as any man there having nothing at stake. When the time came to speak coolly as n lawyer in cours. Dclibrr. atciy and m n strong voice he deliver cd his address of 5000 wouis and he shattered all preccfrnts by giving it | from memory insrend of from manu. script. He declared for tse Monroe doctrine, economy, proeetion of the In. dans, security of the freedman and for civil servic,
 The inaugural precedent was the first of many ne was destined t0 ig norc- For one thing he vetoed s,ore bills than lad been vetoed by ait the presidents who had gone before him. His record was Il5 bills vesoed ozt of