The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-03
From the Pittsburg Post.

From the Pittsburg Post
 N IL had doubtless felt for months WY that the shaft of the Grim Archer was poised above our universally beloved ex-President and noblest citizen, but grief is none the less poignant when deaths arrow has struck. Grover Cleve- land was of the original American rock. His integrity was adamantine, his tenacity of purpose had the resistance of flint. VJlification and defeat could not crush him. His character had this solid base, and all the tides of passion or caprice or allurement could not wear away the struc- ture. His life is a great Incentive one of the nobiest realized sermons.
 He had known a boyhood amid humble surroundings. He had exemplified Ameri- can opportunity. But no honor was ever attained. no advance reached, by sacrifice of the rugged principles of honesty and justice that were the vital infusion of his being. It was not vouchsafed. happi- ly one may write that great wars should surround his career with heros glamour, but with the tremendous problems of civic veal he dealt with a masters hand and a statesman's mind. Each of our Presi- dents has had some dominant trait that impresscs the common thought. Grover Cleveland stands alone in righteous stub- bornness.
 No need to recall here the incidents Of his life, nor dwell upon the unforgettable episodes of his two grand administrations. Assuming that such detail is loged firmly in American memory, rather would we strive on to portray the manner Of man he was. Party clamor could not swerve him from his judgment. Senate vitupera- ton could not disturb. Calmly, without spectacular flourish, he drew the line that England dared not cross. Assailed by crude thinkers here and blanished by self-seek- ing speculators along old-fashioned lines, and when he found the answer, he brooked not change of figure.
 His whole being was enlisted in the cause of the American people. No public man has grasped more acutely the spoliat- ing system of unfair protection, nor given to a party more stirring inspiration to compel it's reform. Faithful observance of the Pendleton civil service law was fond parcel of his sworn duty, and prostitution
 
 abomination alien to any fiber of his thought. His state papers remain sing ular among those of many illustrious pre- decessors in originality of expression, their prevailing note of absolute firm ness, practicality and sincerity and marvel ous compression of statement, without im- rairment of perfect lucidity. Some of his phrases are as standard as quotations from the literary master-minds of the cen- turies.
 But it was not alone as the sturdy ad- ministrator, the stateman of the inf1exible rurpose and wise view that the people will always affectionately and proudly remem- Der MT. Cleveland. There was the more human phase of his life. that kindly irradiates the home and penetrates the heart. He was married when he had achieved an enviable station, and his bride became instantly one of the ideals of wom- anhood Children came to glorify his home. and as the father he exhibited new view of his personality, which won for him the deeply abiding love of all the people.
 Throughout his life he had observed the habits Of IruRauty, Ol tCoHoihyp diid WiSh he retired from the White House to the academic n precincts of Princeton he estab- lished a home that has been one of the finest simplicity, of genuine hospitality, that the continent could furnish.
 MT. Cleveland possessed an intense fondness for genuine sports. hunting and fishing, and he could write in genially original vein of his favorite recreations. Every sentence was infused with the very air of the woods, or the stream. A play full humor gamboled throughout his de- scriptions and quaint suggestions about game and its pursuit.
 In his retirement such writings did not wholly absorb his time. for he was eager lv sought to prepare articles on all cur rent topics of moment, and his discus sions were quoted across the nation His style was his own. inimitable. He in-