Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1908-07-02
Death Of Grover Cleveland.

Deatu vi UrOyor CleVoi6nO
Charlotte Observer, 25th.
The public will not be surpris
ed by the annuncement OF the
death oi Mr.. Grover Cleveland.
The event had long been antici-
pated and was deferred longer
than many Of his friends had ex.
pected. 1t is regrettable that in
the order OF nature such men can
not live forever but in that order
this great man had reached the
period when his death was logic
al and repining on account OF it
were vain and foolish: Cicero's
De Senecute says something like
this-that the death OF all old
man is a natural event while that
OF a young man is as If a bosom
of destruction had swept over
the ! and. Mr.. Cleveland had
reached the age when death fol-
lows naturally. In the maturity
Of his powers, his intellectual
iorce unabated, he lays down the
burden OF life and goes to Join
the majority.
Circumstances forbid that trib-
ute which the eventsuggests and
a tribute OF words would, after
all, be supererogation. The work
Of this man willlingerin his coun
try's history. His record is q
most extraordinary one. Few
presidents have passed through
such a period ofstorm and stress,
and whatever else one may think
Of him none will deny that he
met the various crises in his ca
reer with superb courage. with q
nerye that never faltered n c r
failed. Deserted by his party, left
frfendless among pitiless enemies,
he followed with serenity the hard
path Of duty. and left, unhonor-
ed and unattended, atthe end of
his second term, the capitol to
which he had been welcomed but
a few years before by the glad
acclaim Of shouting thousands.
Thank God that he lived to see
his vindicationl However they
may deny it all men know in
their hearts that Cleveland was
right all the time and that tho
be sacrificed himself his unexam-
pied nerve saved his country in
his second term from what was
perhaps the greatest disaster
that ever threatened it. The un-
grateful people, most OF all the
recreant South, must stand at
his open grave to-day with con-
aicting emotions.
TO this nothing need be added
except in November, 1896, Har-
ward University celebrated t b e
two hundred and fiftieth anniver
sary Of it's founding and t h q t
President Cleveland attended the
ceremonies; that on this occasion
James Russell Lowell delivered a
magnificent grafton, concluding
with this reference to the Presi.
dent: His presence is a signal
honor to US all, and to all l may
say a personal qualification. We
have no politics here, but t h e
sons OF Harvard all belong to
the party which admires courage,
strength Of purpose and fidelity
to duty. =. He has left the
helm OF state to be with us here,
and so long as it is entrusted to
his hands we are sure thatshould
the storm come, he will say with
Seneca's pilot %, Neptune You
may save me it. you will: but
whatever happens, l shall keep
|my rudder true"
The spirit Of prophecy was up
on the speaker. The..storm came
and the pilot kept his ruder true
God rest him!
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Wins.
Tom Moore, of Rural Route l.
Cochran, Ca, writes: IL had bat
sore come on the instcp Of my foo
and could find nothing that woul,