The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-23
GLIDER ON CLEVELAND

sages matters of Importance instead of
merely perfunetory and unin1uential per-
formances. There was nothing said or
suggested by either of us to the effect of
this appeal to the country upon his own
continuance In office. The message, as is
generally believed, lost him the approach
ing election; but IT was the groundwork
of his subsequent nomination and second
election to the presidency"
Many. other interesting incidents and
impressions are related by Mr.. Glider. He
tells of the interest shown by the Pres
ident in international copyright, how he
deplored the general extravaganza of the
times and the lack of men in Congress
who were absolutely disinterested,' and
his conviction that the class of men in
tended by the trainers of the government
to be it's Legislators were not, as a rule,
coming to Congress" Mr.. Glider says:
1T never saw Mr.. Cleveland more elated
than after he had thrown the presidency
out of the window by his anti-free silver
letter-in February, 1891" There are many
other things in the "reminiscences Illus
trative of Cleveland as a man-anecdotes
of him as a fisherman, of his kindness
toward children and of his exceptional
scrupulousness in money matters. On the
last-named subject Mr.. Glider writes
I'm speaking of Cleveland no one can
help reiterating the word honesty. All
decent people are supposed to be honest,
and an Indifferent reader might well in
quire Why such harping on SO common
p1f eli he fa0 fhot
thoroughgoing honesty is not absolutely
pervasive, certainly in Clevelands case
the trait was almost phenomenally de-
veloped. The honesty of the man was in
the mind of Mr.. Taft and of all memorial
speakers, whether they knew him little
or much, and most of them knew him
we'll Two men who, in different times
and places were long acquainted with
him. said to me lately that Mr. Cleveland
was the most honest man they had ever
known.
"A few years ago a prominent editor,
when talking to me about Mr.. Cleveland,
expressed a good deal of admiration and
but one doubt He said Mr.. Cleveland's
relations to a certain rich friend and the
to be explained. I answered that these
would not have to be explained to me,
because though l did not know much
about his financial affairs, l could vouch
for the fact that he was one of the most
scrupulous men 1 had ever known, and,
besides, l knew he was not what we call
nowadays rich man. little while after
this Mr. Cleveland happened to be talk
ing pretty freely with me about his re-
sources and told me about just having
lost several thousand dollars on a scruple
unnecessarily, as it turned out. After
relating the incident he said: But don't
deserve any credit for that because
money has never been temptation to
me-
Il told this to my editorial friend, and
he replied: oh, have gotten over all
anxiety about that. as I've found out
how glad he was to get the check we
sent him for his article
Soon after he left once and settled in
Princeton he told me that there was talk
about making a position for him with
large salary attached. He said such good
friends were in the movement that he
could not act hastily and in a way that
would seem ungrateful but that he would
not accept a position in which he would
be unable to perform adequate service.
He in fact. declined the position.
II remember that at a time when hs
was adding to his not large income by
industriously contributing to periodicals he
insisted upon certain publishers paying
him considerably less than the sum they
offered for a certain article published
by them on the ground that it was moro
than he had received for similar con-
tribution published elsewhere"
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