The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-25
His Birth in Caldwell, N. !. His school Days, Hi. Legal Career. His Rise to the Governorship of New York and His Defeat of James c. Blaine For the Presiden- ev In 1ssA.

When the pastor of the Presbyterian Churcu ln Ias tlttte town vI Caiuweil, \. l.. m lsst. bestowed uyou oas Q. ms paples gre naAais o1 Jue EtsV. SsepA- Sn GsrvvsFs A pEeuceess0A iL Nne same puIpIl, ne proIAoiy enes. la.llea nos tal.s rclIIoeesl orSAalA taat Llss vvy MouIu grow up to uiscaru nis hrsL uanie anu become in worIu history as Grover GIsveiana. twice tres.oent or the unIIsu s.aIes ana Tor Lns remainder oI als ike .'Ine most uisling uisAeu pri- NaIe ciIazen m IDe wOrld.
 the Rev. stepaen r. cleveland anu has wife. wno was Ann Neal, daugn- ger or a Baltimore merchant. iiau ,arEe famiIy oG enilaren. Inree years aIter Grvver @as porn the family mi- grAleo, as preacners' Iamiiies are wonI u do. farson CteveIanu became pas Tor at Fayetteville, N. x.,Fana later at Clinton. x. Y. xns tatner diea wneL family home was then anu until the widow Cleveland died in 1882 at bol- laaa Fatent, N. |.
 Grover Cleveland attended acadcm- ics ar Eag stleyiIIe ana Clinton. ne mad an early ambition to so through Princeton College. put IacKed ins funds. Ho became clerk ana later As- sIstant teacher in tns New York ln- stiturion kor the sind New Xork GALy.
 same school She and Grover became warm friends. In her "reminiscences Mss Crosby writes;
 He seemed a very gentle but tn- tanseIy ambitious boy. Among other very pleasant charactertstics which | noticed in him was q disposition to | ing that it was a great favor to me to have my poems copied neatly and lex- 1 tbly, he offered to perform that serv- ice for me. and I several .,s times avail ] One day the principal of the school upbraided the blind woman for us- l ing the clerks time in that way. i Grover told Miss Crosby that she had l a perfect right to employ him in thai l capacity. tnasmuch as her poems were used in the school and also helped to some plain prose- the next time nu should reproach her. When the on. | Crosby stood for her rights ana woe when Cleveland was about IS yssIs yseIs HIa fiSiaR Rs i5 ea Sufslo. The uncls | induced the boy to remain and help hlm in compiling the American Herd titions of this work. studied law and was admitted to the bar at the age of 22. His first otiiciaI position %as Hsy. tRsi RhicS % he Ai asid for % three yssrs. during the civil war Two of his brothers were in the army. Grover
 ss1s 4spns 0 sssPS was sl' . wsaa he was drafted to military service he hired a. substitute and remained at work; Later hs was q candidate M TOT feated. Then he settied down to law practice. In 1870 he was induced ta run for sheriff and was elected. serV-
 After another Interval of prlvars | citizenship, assiduously devoted to his profession. this bachelor lawyer | of Buffalo on the Democratic ticket in 1881. He had become known as z careful. hard-working. but not nrtl. esan osnamsatai side. He simply attenasd State ticket carried Bufralo 6v more Mayor by a majority of 3,530. Early in his term he became known as the veto Mayor" He vetoed many extrav, Sis Eae oty asPrGp1atsHino aS isaat si ana S'D
 The State of New York soon heard much of this veto Mayor. He ned sse Ssen on noihatsd lssa him for Gov
 ernor. New York had not elected . Democratic Governor since before the war. The Republicans nominaMsSs M Treasury Tn President Arthur's cabinet Mir. Folger was regarded as partio" uiarly strong candidate. yet cieys- clear majoi ~ of is1.7ls over all. the candidates. Just after he tvotsd op election day he wrote to his brother the Rev. William Cleveland:
 'If mother were alive. I should be writing to her, and felt as if 1t were a time for me to write to some one who will believe what write I will tell you first of all others the policy I intend to adopt. and that Is to make the matter business engage. in which the obligation on my side is to perform the duties assigned me with an eve single to the interests of my employers. I shall have no tdea Of preferment in my head. but be very thankful and happy if serve one term as the peoples otSsp Governor srs a,iDs Ds should feel 90 much safer. I have always thought that her prayers had much to do with my successes. shall expect you to hep me in that way"
 Governor Cleveland was precisely like Mayor Cleveland. He was a bus mess Governor. 1t was said of hin, run a railroad. mastering the details of the business so that he could run 1t we'll. The same writer declares that made the. State officials practice it.
 He vetoed bills until the legislator. were wild with rage. and he, forced through ciTii Sl.,"sr service reform .orA,.,,v disliked by the politicians in his par ty. But his reputation among tne people as plalns practtcaole( Dust- nesslike executive had grown so wide that In the summsr of 1884. before the expiration of his gubernatorfal term, there was an insistent call for ! him to accept that "nigh political pref erment" which in the letter to his ] brother he had dec-ared was not in his head. The great mass of the Democ. raey throughout the country bel l.eved that Cleveland was honest and that nothing could turn him aside from a course which he believed to be right. He was nominated for President at the Chicago convention of 1884 his Repub- iican opponent being James c. Blaine Mir Cleveland received a small plural. 1 41g of fhA nnpuIar VotA and an el,ses