The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-24
He INTIMATE LIFE STORY OF GROVER CLEVELAND THE MAN. AND TWICE THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE UNITED STATES;
HOW HUMBLE SON NEW JERSEY CHALLENGED ADVERSELY AND FIGHTING IT. WONT The WHOLE WNdDS RWT
His First Term and the Romance
of His Wedding to Miss
Folsom.
A ccoMPAN1ED by his brother

A CCOMPANIED by his brother
n and sister. Grover Cleveland
slipped quietly into Washington
March ., 1885, and on the fourth was
inaugurated as President of the United
States, succeeding Chester Alan Ar
thur. Twenty-eight years had passed
since a Democrat had taken the oath
of office as president. Miss Rose Eliza
beth Cleveland, the Presidents younger
sister, was mistress of the White
House and therefore first lady of the
land" during the first fifteen months
of the administration. During this pc
riod rumors as to a White House bride
few fast and thick, the President hav-
ing sent elaborate bouquets to Miss
frankie Folsom on the occasion of
the young woman's graduation from
Wells College. Frances Folsom was
the daughter of a former law partner
of Mr.. Cleveland in Buffalo. After her
graduation she Travelled in Europe. On
June 2, 1886, shortly after her return to
America, she was married to the Presi-
dent in the White House.
Unusual obstacles beset the presiden-
tial pathway of Cleveland from the
moment of his Inauguration. Shut out
from executive favor for practically a
generation, the Democratic politicians
were avid for office. The President
sought to adhere to a policy opposed
to removal from office of competent
officials except as to heads of divisions
and other important ofiiceholders, but
the Jacksonian cry, ITO the victors be-
long the spoils!" became so insistent
that the President was induced to mod
ify his policy to the extent of remoV-
ais for offensive partisanship,' a
phrase coined by him which speedily
became famous. In the light of history
it must be admitted that offensive
partisansp in federal offices were ex-
ceedingly numerous in those days. Re-
publican postmasters were slaughtered
by wholesale. '
F. '~ Restored the Battle Flags.
In a storehouse connected with the
War Department were many crates of
battlefags captured from Southern
armies. AT the suggestion of the adj
jutant-general Mr.. Cleveland ordered
that the flags be returned to the States
from whose regiments they had been
captured. Certain Grand Army posts
became so indignant that they passed
resolutions strongly c%ensuring the
President. with i~nsinuations against
him because he had employed a substi-
tute instead of going into the army
during the war, This incident, which
took place in 1887. was intensified in It's
acrimony from the G. A. r. side be-
cause the President had vetoed Civil
| War6pension bills in hundreds of in
| dividual cases wherein he believed the
| applicant was not entitled to n pension
He had become known as 1.-THE veto ,,
| President" as he had been the veto
Mayor and the veto Governor. so
harsh was the clamor evoked by the
battlefag order that the President is
sued a frank statement resembling it,
explaining that he had acted without
looking up the legal aspect of the case
and that in his opinion any direction as
to the final disposition of the captured
| flags should originate with Congress.
Since then many flags have been re-
turned. FN- ''#5
FcH &. rr.. ". - ff
Reorganization and Defeat.
President Cleveland, in his message
| to Congress in December, 1887, enunci-
ated his celebrated proposition of tariff
for revenue only This was the most
notable incident of his first term in
office. The message, submitted on the
eve of the presidential nominations OF
1888, amazed the nation by its bold
stand against the so-called protective
tariff. Mr. Cleveland was known to be
in a willing mood for denomination. His
fearlessness in thus daring to ALLEVIATE
that large wing of the Democracy which
believed in a high tariff for the support
of American industries was greeted by
the British press with profound admi-
ration. Eminent political economists in
the United States declared this message
to be one of the ablest of presidential
papers. The Presidents stand for re-
auctions in the tariff on a revenue