The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-07-04

for district attorney and defeated. In
1866 he was chairman Of the county
committee. In 1870 he was elected
sheriff and filled the office for three
years.
In 1881 he was elected mayor OF But.
falo as democrat by plurality OF
$500. The candidates on the repub.
lican state ticket carried the city by
1000. He became known as the veto
mayor" 1t was an honorable title.
Buffalo had long been In the grip OF
INSCRIPTIONS politicians.
When the democrats in 1882 cast
about for a candidate for governor
their eyes naturally turned toward
Buffalo. Grover Cleveland was placed
at the head Of their ticket. He was
elected over Charles j. Folger, then
secretary of the treasury. by 100000
plurality.
A National Figure.
Clevelands record as mayor and
his overwhelming victory In the cleo
ton made him q national figure.
On July IL, 1884, In Chicago, he was
nominated to oppose James G. Blaine
in the campaign for the presidency,
A slender plurality in New York state
turned the scale and he became the
first democratic president since the
civil war. The second time in his
life that he visited Washington was
when he went to the capital to take
the office as president.
The wedding of President Cleveland
and Frances Folsom was celebrated
at the White House June 2, 1886.
In 1887 his famous tariff for rev
enue only message was sent to CON
gress. 1t had the effect of making,
for time, the tariff as the dominat.
ing issue in politics.
The president was renominated by
the democrats in 1888. Cleveland was
defeated in this election.
Second Inauguration.
The second Inauguration as presi-
dent occurred in 1893. He proceeded
straightway with an independent
course of action, that added to the
stock of his unpopularity. He or
dered down the American flag in Ha.
wall, and, over the protest of the gov.
ernor, he sent federal troops into Chi.
cago to break railroad strike In
order to maintain the gold reserve he
called to his assistance a syndicate OF
Wall street men. He forced the re-
peal of the Sherman act, which pro-
vided for the purchase of 100000
ounces of silver month. The latter
action drove almost to frenzy the sill
yer advocates of the country. He
withheld his signature from the Viii
son tariff bill
Most popular of all his acts as presi
dent was Cleveland's treatment of the
Venezuela boundary question. That
was in 1895. England, it was charged
was encroaching on Venezuela and
threatened the appropriation of large
and valuable territory. Cleveland went
to the rescue of the republic, and, al
the risk Of. war with England, forced
an arbitration of the question at issue
England was belligerent and Europe
frowned savagely, but the fellow citi
zens OF the president were wildly en-
thusiastic in his support.
Establishes His Home.
Soon after leaving the White House
in 1897 Cleveland established his fam
lily in comfortable home at Prince
ton, N. ]. He had fortune ample fol
his needs.
Of the children Ruth, the first, was
born October 3, 1891, at their home
in New York city. On January Z
1904, she died at Princeton of heart
failure, Occasioned by a mild attack
of diphtheria. Esther, the second
daughter, was born September 9, 1893
and has the distinction of having heeu
the only child of president born In
the White House. Marion, the third
daughter, was born at Buzzards Bay
the Cleveland summer home, July Z
1895. A son was born at Princeton
October %, 1897. He was christened
Richard. Another boy was born al
Buzzards Bay July Is, 1903. He was
named Francis Grover for his parents
President Issues Proclamation.
Oyster Bay, L. l., June 24.-Presi
dent Theodore Roosevelt has issued
the following proclamation:
ITO the People of the United States:
Grover Cleveland, president of the
United States from 1885 to 1889 and
again from 1898 to 1897, died at $40
O'Clock this morning at his home at
Princeton, N. j..
I'm his death the nation is deprived
of one of its greatest citizens.
by profession lawyer, Mr.. Cleve-
lands chief services to his country
were rendered during a long, varied
and honorable career in public life.
AS mayor of his city, governor OF
his state and twice nreSidonf- Of hic