The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-06-24
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Early this morning the life Of Steph-
en- Grover Cleveland took ITS flight
f1Ah lhe body and one OF Americas
efeateat presidents is no more. Mas
ter Of self and able to become master
OF "a nation. Grover Cleveland has gone
to take his place in the pages OF his
tory
With the madness Of the struggle for
supremacy aud advancing of the poll
cies government hushed at the bier,
those who care to reflect upon the ei-
forts OF those going before can put adj
NIT thatlhe who twice served his coun-
try as IT'S chief executive was among
tho exalted OF the earth and added
much f.r the betterment OF his fellow
beings
How tnle it is that that which is
great cau only be measured by tne
cold. calculating scale Of the historian.
Now that the man has gone for
Judgment to the Eternal Court, how
puerile--how Insignificant seem those
faults which estranged those who
should have been ais friends and stood
loyalty and bravo by his side in the
dark hours when the effort for better
ment Of conditions was crystalizing
aronpd his sturdy manhood
There was none OF the demagogue
IN Grover Cleveland He hated shanis
and prelense and scorned those who
betrayed public trust He never TO use
vulgar phrase, played 10 the mutt
tude
Bnlike others who have occupied the
greatest office within the gift OF mans
suffrage, Grover Cleveland never adver-
tised what he was going to do. nor did
he, after performance of what be con-
celyed his duty hire band 10 message
TO the multitude the glories Of the act
8aiher did he feel that the acts
Of men IN high places should be done
because it Is right TO do tklm, and he
left the public to ascertain their great
import through the medium OF the aci
alone President at q period when the
bitterness OF the Great Civi war was
giving way to the education, courage
and recuperatiye power OF American
citizenship, he united in his cabinet
the fiery Lamont with the judicial
Lamar. had a Garland at work for his
country alongside OF Whitney, PROV
ing by contact with each other thai
love OF country and ambition for
It's continuity and betterment beat the
same nndef he magnolia a. The
t'ffN At1AAN AAAN Ivy NAAl iNMhIN III NJ
iiansas WAS the same loyalty taught
ia tho Republics metropolis Tower
ing over and above the little things
which hesmifca The character OF ma
tion as wen as they do the individual
Cioyer Cieveiand WAS 2 trailblazer Il
the slatesmanship OF modern times
and his fearless leadership was as fal
above that oil the demagogue as lasts
The fame u Zordaster above the putrit
men and yGesals who sought So de
gtroy the effectiveness and righteous
ness he delivered to the world in Oh,
dark days 81 mans first cropping fo
united advancement
Friendships and enyironment hay,
much TO do with an men, In fact sucl
make or mar the vast majority but 9,
those sound stern reasoners who nlac,
measures above the Individual and 4,
on fight movements without asking VIII,
Is arrayed upon either side. the ordin
hry walls are less hard 10 scale. an,
ther acis when the white light of th'
Impartial historiah IS turned upol
them show as spotless and as pure
as lis possible for the efforts of mai
90 be carved in the eternal rock whiol
guides mans work
Whatever may be the final yerdic
as TO right or wrong positions taker
by Grover Cleveland. history VIII have
10 state that le took his place accord
ing 20 the light as he saw ID and tina
he wayered neither when the apnaus'
WAS greatest or the disapproyal wal
the hardest 20 endure
Had he listened 20 those who pla,
The political game OF eXpedioncy Grove
Cleveland would have died tho leade
Of hb party and been the fawnednpoI
leader OF the decade, but ne ch0s'
The other way and by that choosing
and method took the oppr0hrium of thl
day but passes 10 the last rest one o
the greatest presidents this countrl
oyer knew and one 81 the creates
ataiesmen this world has produced.
Unique in being the only democratic
president fipce the war, made conspio
uous hy ih8 qYer changing tide Of pow
er from Ehst ~ Vest, Mr.. cievelan'
ftoQ4 Az t4f fn4lgiiiq fli itle ipia1puiy
and NaS as Impartial IA ppRQSlns th'
sugar plaotHf wapiiHe y subsidy as hl
opposed 3 steel on tlnplato magnati
seeking a monopoly
Right on wronK his tariff declare
TONS as 70 the protective system breed
inf n n0polies have finally been AZ
lnowiedged By both political parue
and are no longer controger,ed b.
those 81 authority
l4. sfealef proof of The impagtln
hand Oi history need be mentioned thar
the recent republican convention ha
declared that the system Of profeciioi
which Nr Cleveland fought So Jealous
ls and So hard Is wrong Ia principle
aud wrong iu the evil results whicl
have followed n, and pledges tie part,
10 remedy the error
What music must thar have been Z
the great decea5ed when IN the YER
last hours Of his iasI ebbing llfe. wa