The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-24
Second Term at the White House
Marked by StOlid Adherence
to Policies.

of the most unpopular Americans for
the time being. He a cut loose from
his party and become that amazingly
unusual thing-an executive independ-
ent of the powers which made him.
The great struggle for the maintenance
of the gold standard against blmetal-
lism which signalized the campaign OF
1896 was taking efin shape. The
President set himself obstinately to-
ward maintaining the gold standard.
In the summer of 1898 he called an
extra session of Congress and pushed
through the repeal of the Sherman act
of 1890, under which the government
was required to purchase large quanti-
ties of silver bullion. The Democracy
at large was amazed and enraged at
this action, though a very considerable
portion of it stood with the President
OF, the Issue.
To maintain the gold reserve Presi-
dent Cleveland from time to time made
large issues of government bonds. The
placing of some of these bonds with
New York bankers aroused a cyclone
of adverse criticism. Mr.. Cleveland
of course, was in the exact storm CEN
tire. Several years after his retire.
ment Mr.. Cleveland wrote a statement
explaining the bond sales, defending
his own course and declaring thai he
recalled these executive acts with the
greatest satisfaction.
Sends Troops to Chicago.
President Cleveland in 1894 enhanced
his immediate unpopularity by sending
government troops to Chicago "to pre-
vent the obstruction of the mails dur
ing the great railway strike, against
the protest of Governor Altgeld, of IL
linois, who declared that he was able to
cope with the situation without aid
from the Federal government. This was
one of the most sensational acts of
Cleveland's career. In 1895 he sent to
the Senate a message relating to Brit
ish lain in Venezuela which bristled
with bulldog determination to Insist
upon the unfolding of the Monroe doc
trine wen at the cost of war between
the United States and England. Great
Britain nae refused to submit to ar
bitration a certain boundary dispute
with Venezuela. President Cleveland
advised the appointment of a commits
sion to determine for itself the bound
airy line between the two countries with
a view to enforce an acceptance of this
line by Great Britain. The Monroe
doctrine having been accepted from the
moment of it's PRONUNCIATION by Secre-
tary of State John Quincy Adams aa
a part n parcel of sacred American
polity, the entire nation stood by the
President in his plucky stand. Cons
gress also stood by him. England drew
in her horns and accepted the situation
gracefully. Grover Cleveland for thu
time was a great popular hero. How
ever, his defeat for denomination In
1896, had he desired the honor, was a
~foregone conclusion. Tariff as an issue
was tumbled into that condition which
years before Mr.. Cleveland had de>
scribed as "%innocuous desuetude." The
free coinage of silver was demanded by
the Democratic majority. Mr.. Cleve-
land supported the Palmer and Buckner
gold Democratic ticket. When he
handed over the government reins ia
President William Mckinley, March T.
1897, he stepped out of Office forever.
Mr.. Cleveland settled for himself the
problem as to what to do with ar ex-
President by retiring gracefully to
Princeton. N. j., in the shadow of the
great university which he az a poor
boy vainly a hoped to enter. Here
he built a home and grew old with his
family of bright young children grow
ing up about him. Two more girls and
two boys were born.
During and after his Presidential
terms the Cleveland fishing and duck
hunting expeditions supplied much ma
terial to the press.
In 1903. Mr.. Cleveland was introduced
in st. Louis as "the most distinguished
private citizen in the world" BY that
time his political opponents in both of
the great parties, generally speaking,
had come to look upon him as a his
torical figure, and by the vast ma
jority of Americans the venerable ex-
President was regarded as a true pa
triot, an honest public servant and an
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