The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-25
His Inauguration Tn March, 1885. His Marriage ts Miss Frances Folsom His Removals for @oaenslve Psr- tisanship," His sTsria for Reve- nue only, Plan and Two Presf- aential Campaigns.

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 Unusual obsracles beset the Presi- dentiaI pathway of Cleveland from the moment of his inauguration. Shut out from executlve favor tor practic- politicians were avid for office. The Rresldent sought to adhere to policy opposed to removal from oftice of com. potent officials except as to heads S,o of holders. but the Jacksonian cry "To the victors beaong the spells! became so inststent that the President was tn- tent tent of Y rslnovsls for -onsnsiye par. which sSfsD Speedily Became Became famous. In the isat tsat Sd assfSsy M maas of offices were exceedingly numerous in those days. Republican postmasters were slaughtered by wholesale.
 War Department were many crates Of battlefags captured from Southern that the flags be returned to the States from whose regiments they had been captured Certain Grand Army posts became so indignant that they the President. with insinuations against him because he had employed a substitute instead of going into .the which took place in 1887. was Intensi- fled in it's acrimony from the c. A. K. side because the President had vetoed civil var pension bills in hundreds @ of pension. He had become known as ".ths veto President" as he had besn So harsh was the eiauor evoked by the battlefiag order that the President is- sued . frank statement resembling tt explaining that he had acted without l looking up the legal aspect of the case and that in his opinion and direction as to the fiSaI disposition of the cap tured flags should originate with Ccn- eress; since then many flags have President Cleveland in his message to Congress in December. 1887, snuD.
 siated his celebrated proposition of the he m most s notable incidsnt of s his frss ted on the eye of the Presidential | by It's hold stand against the Ro-callad protective tariff. KIT. clcveland was known to be in q willing mood for TSs,nominati9n. HIS fsarissSnsss lear 1 & in thns % the Democracy which believed in high 1 tariff for the support of American
 industries was greeted. by the, Brit.
 ton. Eminent political aconomists in the United States declared this mes sage to be one of the ablest of Presi- for reductions in the tariff on 'rsv. enue only" basis was the subject of much discussion pro and con for many years following.
 MT. Cleveland received the Demo- cratic nomination for President in | 1888, but was defeated in the elecetion by Reniamin Harrison of Indiana
 Many Democrats rat astrisutsd fss his de- | ter Mr. Harrison's election and the con. | seQuent tirade of criticism from mem hers of the President's own party Mir
 House of Representatives, John a | Carlisle, Democrat. and said to him | If every other man in the country abandoAs this issue. I shall stick to 1 Accordingly In the last message | of hSs term he stuck tn" his stafd | on the tarIH problem. urging Con | gress in 1SSS-a td enact laws in line before.
 " clsyelanq ,.s ssss.rss to s,,io private ,1,, life York City for the practice of the | law. He was not particularly act- rye In politics after his retirement. In the meantime history was mak- ing. Harrison and Hlgh tarin were in increasing the tarifr on wool. tin plate
 and other products. was followed by
 high prices for the poor mans neces-
 saries of life. Events rapidly were
 shaping themselves toward vindica.
 tIon of Grover Cleveland. The ex.
 President attended to his law work l ana the people did the rest. With the | politicians, as of old. mostly in op- | position. the independent Democratic
 voters forced the selection of C.eve-
 land delegates to the National Demo
 June. "Four mors years of Grover
 was the campaign crv. Though the
 New York delegation opposed him. Mr
 Cleveland was nominated for the Presidency the third time in success
 sion on the first ballot. President
 Harrison again was his Republican op- ponent. Cleveland was elected, receiv-
 Ing 277 electoral votes Against 145 for
 Harrison and 22 for General Weaver