The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-03-23
TRIBUTES TO CLEVELAND.
In Poem, Song and Speech the Prais-
es Of the Sage of Princeton
Are Sung.

dered7 today III n0nOf OF ENe seventy
second birthday anniversary Of the
late President Grover Cleveland, at a
memorial exercise in which Presl-
dent Taft. Governor Hughes, Chief
Justice Fuller and Mayor McClel-
Ian. made addresses and several hun
dred of New York's most prominent
citizens attended. Mrs. Cleveland
with party Of friends occupied a
box i'm Carnegie Hall, where the mem
orial was held.
A second memorial Was held to-
night at the college Of the City Of
New York, at which speeches We're
made by Governor Hughes, Senator
Root, Mayor Mcclellan, Judge Gary,
of Delaware, VIM. Hornblower and
Edward NJ. Shepard.
President Taft was introduced by
Mayor Mcclellan. The president
spoke with unusual fervor in his eu-
logy of Mr.. Cleveland, and frequent-
ly the course Of his address was
broken by applause.
President Taft said in part:
President Taft's Speech.
'sGrover Cleveland was as COM
pletely American in his character as
Lincoln. Without a college educa-
ton, he prepared himself for the
bar. His life was confined to Wes-
tern New York. His vision Of gov
ernment and Of society was not wild
emed by foreign travel. He was a
pure product Of the village and town
life of the Middle States, affected by
New England ancestry and the at
mosphere of a clergyman home. His
chief characteristics we're simplicity
and: diractness of thought, sturdy
honesty, courage of his convictions
and plainness of speech, with a sense
of public duty that has been exceed
ed by no statesman within my knowl-
edge.
"His career was a most remark
able one. BY his administration Of
the affairs of his city as its mayor he
showed his power Of resistance to,
and of overcoming the influences that
made, for corruption and negligence
IN city government, both in his own
garty and in the party Of his oppon-
ents. His reputation in this regard
spread over his native State Of New
York at stage when such an attitude
as his seemed exceptional, and his
standing before the community be-
came a political asset for the Demo-
cratic party that even those who had
but little sympathy, with his princi-
Piles We're glad ito seize upon as a
means of getting into power. Ac-
cordinely he was nominated for the
gorernorship and was elected by the
votes not only of his own party, but
of hundreds of thousands of the Re-
publican party. The discharge Of
his duties as governor confirmed and
strengthened the reputation that he
had acquired as a mayor. Before he
had ceased his Office as mayor he had
been elected governor. Before he
had ceased his office as governor he
had been elected prsident of the Uni
ted States.
Cle7eland's Political Career.
s'Mr. Clevvland's S political career
was so short that he had great ad-
vantage over the prominent men of
his party whose records reached back
into and were governed by the bitter
quarrels of the civil war. AS a poli-'
tical quantity, his history began dur
ing the corruption and demoraliza-
ton in the Republican party; which
were a necessary result Of Continued
-ower during the war and the dread
succeeding it. He represented in a
sense a new Democracy about which
all the older elements rallied, both
thoso strongly in sympathy with his
reform views, as we'll as those ele-
ments without much sympathy, who
were anxious to secure party power.
'The first time Nh. Cleveland was
in power he was opposed by a Re-
publican senate. This gave little op-
portunity for any radical change b.
legislation in the previous policies Of
Republican administrations, but il
did offer an opportunity for Mr..
Cleveland to point out to the country
the fact that our government is
government of three distinct branch
'es, the executive, the legislative and
the Judicial, and that the executive
has a sphere which the legislative
.Dranch has no isht to invade.