Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-06-24

lty but a year or two and then start
ed west to seek his fortune.
At Buffalo he met an uncle, who
persuaded him to remain there, and
he took up his residence in that city
in 1855 and assisted his uncle in pre-
pairing volume of the American
Herd Book. He later helped prepare
additional volumes of this book while
working for 81 a week and studying
law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1853
and on his slim practice he supported
his mother until she died in 1882. He
was appointed district attorney OF
Erie county in 1853 and held that po-
sition for three years. Unable to en-
list when the war broke out, he bor-
rowed money and hired a substitute.
At 2S he was the Democratic candi-
date for district attorney but was de-
feated and continued his law practice
until 1870. when he was elected sher-
iff of Erie county.
Made Record as Mayor.
In 1881 Cleveland was no Demo-
cratic candidate for mayor Of Buffalo
and he won by a majority of $3.50
votes. the lai gest majority ever given
a mayoralty candidate n that cry.
The state Republican ticket carried
in that election in Buffalo by 1900.
Cleveland soon acquired the nIIne
of the veto mayor" and during nis
first half year as mayor he saved the
city s1,000,000 which it had been
spending uselessly. His administra-
ton of the office won him many trib-
utes and in 1882 ne was nominated
for Democratic candidate for govern
or of the state. He won the election
by 192,S54 and announced his policy
in a letter to his brother, ''to make
the matter a business engagement be-
tween the people of the state and my
self In which the obligation on my
part Is to perform the duties assigned
me with an eye single to the interests
of my employers"
His administration was successful
and he assumed national proportions,
for president at Chicago July IL, 1884,
against James G.. Blaine, Republican,
Benjamin F.. Butler, Labor and
Greenback candidate, and John p.
st. John, Prohibitionist. He received
219 electoral votes to 1872 for Blaine.
He was unanimously renominated
June 6. 1888, at ST. Louis but received
only 16S electoral votes against 233
received by Harrison, although Cleve-
land received more than 100000 ma
Jority of the popular vote. At the
end of his term he retired to New
York and practiced law, but at Chi
cago in 1892 he was again nominated
by the Democratic convention as the
candidate for president receiving two
thirds of the votes cast He was
elected, receiving 277 electoral votes
against las received by Harrison.
Censured and Praised.
At the end of his second term,
March 4, 1897, he retired to Prince
ton, where he resided until his death.
Cleveland was married In the White
House June 2, 1886, to Miss Frances
Folsom, and they have three children.
The second daughter, Esther, was
born in the White House in 1898, and
has the distinction of being the first
child to be born In the executive man
sion.
Cleveland's two administrations of
the national government are various
ly criticized and commended. The
act which brought the greatest CEN
sure, particularly from laboring men.
was during his second term in 1894
when he called out federal troops and
declared martial law in Chicago, fol-
lowing riots and labor troubles in that
city. As stated in his proclamation
calling out the troops he took this ac-
ton because the rioters were inter-
fering with United states mails and
because the state government was un-
able to control the situation. The
action was vigorously assailed by
workingmen throughout the country
and was as strongly upheld by various
other classes. but whatever the justice
of the act, rioting was stopped and
tranquility restored to the city.
In 1898 Cleveland called a special
session of Congress to consider meas
ures of relief made necessary by the
panic of that year.
Cleveland established a code for the
civil service by amending rules and
regulations in effect when he assumed
office and placed the civil service on
a basis Of efficiency and honesty. His
order to the heads of department for
to exert their influence as offcehold-
ers in political affairs created much
comment but has been maintained,
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