Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-25

at BuHal0, ana II was SuSpecleu tHdt he would go far.
 He did go far. It was in 1882 that the stalwarts and the featherheads were face to face in the Republican state convention of the Empire State. President Arthur had alienated Conk- ling without consolidating Blaine, and here he was dictating the nomination of his secretary of treasury, Charles J. Folger, for governor of New York. In a moment of inspiration the Demo crats nominated Grover Cleveland. and his plurality over Folger was 192, ,S54, with majority G 151,I42 over all candidates.
 His Record as Goeernor.
 AS governor Mir. Cleveland was what he had been as mayor and what he was to be as president. Within month and a week he vetoed eight inn portant bills, and one of those vetoes was political audaeity. Jaeksonian in its intrepidity. The legislature passed bill making , cents the uni form fare on the New York city ele- vated roads. and it was unquestionabiy a very popular measure in the Demo- cratic Gibraltar of Manhattan Island, but the governor saw in it a breach Of faith, and despite the advice and the warning of friends he vetoed the bill and faced the storm.
 In 1884 the national Democracy had had it's eyes on Grover Cleveland fo- . nearly two years and now nominated him for president over the protest 0, Tammany, as it had nominated Tilden over that protest eight years before and was destined to again nominate Cleveland over that protest eight years after. And thus this man who three years before was an obscure citizen of western New York was now preferred for the greatest political place on earth over Thomas r. Bayard, Allen G Thurman, Joseph E. Mcdonald and William R. Morrison.
 James G. Blaine of Maine for many years leader of his party. w1s the Re publican nominee for president that year. General John A. Logan was the nominee lUI AHtt ll1tSiuthl oi ti4N Blaine ticket On the Cleveland ticket Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana hell second place.
 Only Democrat Elected Since War. Cleveland and Hendricks were tri- umphanty elected after bitter con test. The ticket received small plu rality of the popular vote and a mn jority of thirtv-seven in the electoral college. For the first time in twenty. eight years the Democracy elected 1t national ticket. As president Cleve. land continued his veto policy. When ever he saw bill that failed to meet is ideas of justice, public policy or .ternal rightness he promptly vetoed t. He vetoed thousands of private
 pension bills. which caused the Grana Army men to oppose him stoutly. In December of 1887 he sent to congress his tariff for revenue only" message against the advice of party politicians This message did much toward Cleve. lands defeat in 1888. when he became for the second time standard bearer ol the Democracy.
 When Cleveland first went to the White House he was bachelor. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland. his sister. was mistress of the executive mansion But the sisters reign was brief. Eff. teen months after his inauguration the president gave the country White House wedding by marrying Miss Frances Folsom. beautiful and talent ed young woman of Buffalo. the daugh- ter of one of Clevelands former law partners. Mrs. Cleveland. who sur wives her husband. was one of the most gracious and popular first ladies of the land.'
 Mir. Cleveland was defeated for the presidency in 1888 by Benjamin Harri- son of Indiana. He settled down in New York city and resumed the prac- tice of the law. There the first child of the Clevelands. little Ruth. was born. When Grover Cleveland returned to the presidency in 1893 she was fa- nous as the White House baby. Ruth died several years after her fathers final retirement from the presidency.
 Elected Again In 1892.
 President Harrison was again the op- ponent of Mir Cleveland in the cam paign of 1892. the present ambassador to Great Britain. whitelaw Reid, being the Republican vice presidential nomi' nee. Adlai F. Stevenson of Illinois ran for vice president on the Democratic ticket Cleveland and Stevenson were elected. receiving PIT electoral votes. Harrison received 145 votes and Gen. eral Weaver of Iowa. Populist. Q.
 During his second term President Cleveland took issue with the great body of his party on the currency ques- ton. He stood for the maintenance of the gold standard. By calling an extra session of congress in the summer of 1893 he succeeded in causing the repeal of the law under which the govern ment was required t0 purchase large
 quantities of silver bullion.
 One of President Clereland's most notable acts during his second term was his hold pronouncement on the matter of the Venezuelan boundary dis pute with Great Britain This was in
 -ffect a notification to England that she must rerfrit the United States to take c hand In the settlement of the dis pute. according to the natural opera ti0n Of the famous Monroe doctrine. The stand taken by the president might have brought on war with England but for that country's prompt submis-