Arizona republican., 1908-03-10

of visitors, telegrams and letters
 grows larger, and this year. when MT. , Cleveland will be seventy-one years
 old, 1t IS expected that the observance
 of the day will be more general than
 ever. The Sage of Princeton. as he
 has come to be called. therefore pre-
 sents the striking figure of an ex-pres-
 ident who, instead of dropping into a
 comparative obscurity after leaving of
 flee, has steadily bulked larger and
 larger in the public eye. At the pres
 ent time there is probably no man in
 the country whose opinions are so ire quently sought by the newspapers or Who receives so many requests for the endorsement of all sorts Of reforms and tfaddist movements, not even excepting President Roosevelt himself.
 ! There have been some ex-presidents
 who have been followed into retire ment by the plaudits of the country 1 and who were looked up to even more after leaving office than before. Wash lngtom Jefferson, John Quincy Adams and Grant were examples in point There have been others like Tyler. Fil- more and Hayes who dropped into comparative obscurity as soon as they left the White House CleveIand's case is unique in that when he duitted the chief magistracy after having been twice elected and a third time receiv- ing d majority of the popular vote. he was one of the best hated men in the country. His own party had practical ly disowned him: he had been made i the target of violent personal abuse. and he was held responsible for the i panic of 1893. just as a great many | people are holding President Roose- i welt responsible for the panic of 1907. . Since that time however. the p1TbIic attitude toward MT Cleveland has | changed until he is now fairly deserv- ing of the title given him last year as
 the most distinguished private citi- | Zen in the world"
 A review of the Fluctuations in the I popularity of MT. Cleveland is given in I the March number of Appieton's Mag Il azine by John T. McCutcheon. who sums it up in the rather striking title.
 The Rise, Fall and Rehabilitation of | Grover Cleveland The article points out that Americans are\ often more Hckie m their treatment of popular ldois than the so-called mercurial Lat m race, that after crowding honors upon man, naming cigars babies and dogs after him and shouting our selves hoarse in his praise we sudden " turn our backs on him and leave lim wondering what has happened.
 IL isn't often given to a man to live through rise Napoleonic in it's swift less. says the Appleton article. "to E unp to the highest place in the na- E ion then, with blighting suddenness. tE o find himself a shattered idol with eW to raise friendly voice against he storm of denunciation, and finally O see that same nation come back)to rect him in humble friendliness. ITs- ally statesman's vindication comes lore slowly. He dies. crushed and Dnely, in some St Helena and then. png afterwards, he becomes the idol H I those who helped to crush him. His z Dry gives him proper appreciation but H nly his descendants may enjoy the K 'rdy award H
 MT. Cleveland has been the excep- on He is alive to enjoy his iusti- Fl cation The powerful politicians who H nhed nm for daring to put country n ooVe party have now been forgotten. G have faded into emi-obscuritv but E ith each passing year the wise old E lge Of Princeton stubborn in his high & eals or duty, answering in his old ra