The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1909-03-25
CLEVELAND PRAISED
Taft and Roosevelt laud
Dead Statesman.
COMMEND GREAT COURAGE
Present Chief Executive in Tribute to
Former Says He Was as Complete.
Iy American as Lineoln--Seventy-
Second Anniversary Observed.

New York. Mar. t9.-Tributes in
poem. song and speech were rendered
yesterday in honor of the seventy y.sec.
ond birthday anniversary of the .ate
President Grover Cleveland at memoir
ial exercises in which President Taft.
Gov. Hughes Chief Justice Fuller and
Mayor Mcclellan made addresses and
several hundred of New York's most
prominent citizens attended. Mrs.
Cleveland with party of friends oc.
cupied box in Carnegie hail. where
the memorial was held
A second memorial was held at
night at the College of the City of New
York. at which speeches were made
by Gov. Hughes. Senator Root. Mayor
Mcclellan, Judge Gray of Delaware.
William b. Hornblower and Edward
NJ. Shepard.
Tafts Praise Of Cleveland.
President Taft was introduced by
Mayor Mcclellan. who called upon the
audience to rise and be presented to
the president OF the United States
The president spoke with unusual
fervor in his eulogies of Mr. Cleveland
and frequently the course of his ad-
dress was broken by applause. Pres
idCnt Taft said in part:
Grover Cleveland was as complete
| ly American in his character as Lin
coin. Without a college education. he
prepared himself for the bar His life
was confined to western New York
| His vision OF government and of So
ciety was not widened by foreign
| travel. He was pure product of the
village and town life of the Middle
states, affected by New England an.
cestry and the atmosphere of clergy.
mans home. His chief characteristics
were simplicity, and honesty, COURAGE
of his convictions, wi h a sense of pub.
lie duty that has been exceeded by no
statesman within my knowledge. 1t
was so strong I'm him that he rarely
wrote anything, whether in the form
OF a private or public communication,
that the obligation OF all men to OBJ.
serve the public interest was not his
chief theme.
His career was a most remarkable
one. We hear much in these days of
the usurpation of legislation by the
executive branch. As long as the leg.
isatve branch has the power of the
purse the danger of executive usur.
patton is imaginative The country
Is under obligation to Mr.. Cleveland
for having pointed out in his contro-
versy with the Republican senate
some of the limitations that there are
in the constitution upon attempted
legislative action TO restrict executive
discretion. In the end Mr.. Cleveland
won in his controversy with the sen
ate. Whether he might have done so
had both the house and the senate
been against him is a matter of doubt.
Another Debt We owe
Another great debt which the
country owes to Mr.. Cleveland is the
assertion, made through him as its
chief executive, of the power of the
federal government directly to- defend
the federal jurisdiction through the
process of federal courts and by fed
eral troops, against the lawess in
vasion of a mob. Mr. Cleveland was a
Democrat and of course respected the
traditional construction of the consti-
tuition by that party; but no fear of
apparent Inconsistency prevented him
from asserting the full federal power
to maintain its authority to suppress
lawlessness when directed against fed
eral right and federal jurisdiction;
nd ha fpg nd In q
federal courts to restrain the Debs boy
colt OF the country the tieing up OF In
terstate commerce and the interfer.
ence with the mails, and he sent
troops under Gen. Miles to Chicago to
make his assertion of the power ef-
fective
But he succeeded in stopping what
had really grown to the proportions Of
an insurrection
Grover Cleveland earned the sin
cere gratitude OF his countrymen and
justified recurring memorial occasions
like the one In which we are taking
part"
Gov. Hughes paid a tribute TO the
memory of Mr. Cleveland, saying that
lH6 ldle pItSlucuN was BItdi ueTO
OF a civil administration and was pre-
eminently identified In the country's
history as a great figure of peace.
Chief Justice Fuller, who admins
tered the oath of office to Mr.. Cleve-
land on his Inauguration and to all
his successors, spoke OF Mr.. Cleve-
lands greatness and told OF his pow
er in the nation. The audience fire.
quently cheered the chief justice as
he delivered his speech
Former President Roosevelt sent a
letter to Francis Lynde Stetson,
chairman of the Cleveland memorial
committee, in which the former pres
ident tod of his personal relations
with Mr. Cleveland and praised the
late chief magistrate as a man of earn
est purpose and high courage In the
face of opposition and attack.
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