The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-19
IN MEMORY OF CLEVELAND
DEMOCRATIC CLCB GIVES DHNs
NER on MS BIRTHDAY.
Friends ana Members % Late FresldeatS
Cabinet Recall the Nan They Loved
rhe Venezuelan Message and the
Cleveland ronsrapnee commeqePd On.

Frteada nna Members % Late Freaa0ent0
Cabinet Recall the Nan They Loved
The Venezuelan Message and the
Cleveland Conscience CommeHted On.
Grover Cleveland's birthday was cole
bratsd with enthusiasm at the Demo-
cratic Club last evening. where a hou@eful
Of diners listsnsd 10 eulogies Of Cleveland
by membars Of his Cabinets and personal
friends. In the absence Of President
John Fox who u in Florida. Judge War
ren W. Foster. vice-president Of the
club. presided nc the dinner. and william
T.. Curtis. former Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury. was the tOaStmasscT. IN
opsning the way To the sps.-chmAking
Mr.. Curtis dipped into politics and said
We have got to do our best 20 stand on
a platform of high principles. a. President
Cleveland did. and 90 nominate CAndi-
dates Of character who shall appeal To the
people. The elections are dominated 10y
a small body Of voters VINO give iTs;s..!!;;
gent consideration 20 questions and from
time 10 time vote Independently. Now
u We can drop all selfish considerations
and act solely from patriotic motives ~
Grover Cleveland did the way to- victory
IL ours
Missouri and at one time Cleyeland'e
Secretary Of the Interior. caused mild
stir by beginning his remarks with the
phrase. Gentlemen Of the New York
corrections. National. National Demo-
cratic Club
After saying that Mr. Cleveland was a
great President Gov. Francis said that a
number of the Presidents had been
elected their own SUCCESSORS but that Mr..
7 lslagAlanA ahsa nnlH hat
whose two terms there had been an inter
val in which the people had had tiTne To
reflect on his merits and services
-Cleveland's Venezuelan message he
! said. was one of the most far reaching
State papers in the history of the republic,
nearly second Declaration Of indie
l pendence He defined tn our own people
as well as to the world what the Monroe
Doctrine meant. From this time forward
} lee US call IL the Monroe-Cleveland doc
/ trine-
He claimed for Cleveland the credit
| 81 founding the conservation policy and
! for the discovery 81 Pnchot. who still
survived and he told OF the circum-
stances attending the act establishing
/ the first forest preserve OF 2l.OOO OOO
acres and Of Cleveland's proclamation.
and Of how Cleveland IN the last hours
? Of hiE Adm nIetratlon refused to sign tn"
sUndry civil bill, tn which rider had been
attached that woIld nulltfy a part of the
appropriation for the Interior Department
80 long a. the forest preserve proclama-
/ ton was la force a refusal which nscs@-
: STATED the calling Il an extra session OF
Congress Immediately by President Nc
kinney That was the kind OF President
Grover Cleveland was. he said
Dr Woodrow Wilson, although no spOka
@obs rly prt scntly had everybody laugh
ing through some apparently subtle
undo rStP nding that QUICKLY established
ITSELF between the speaker and his att
disoTs
III u not difScult to tell the character
Of Grover Cleveland he said. and thErs-
fore Il II not difficult TO TIL why the
people were attracted to him. There was
nothing occult or ecC ntric about the man.
His most characteristic tendency was to
do ths duty that was nearest to him
He was NOT otse who waited for some
distant duty Offering conspicuous dstinc-
ton 10 come along. HIS consci-nce
worked - the people rNpsctfd e normal
conscience to work
The -InuositieS Og some VERSIONS con
sci@nce~ are very difficult for most people
- follow. His was a sanitary cunsuiehoe
IL was free from Infection. Ne did not
invent he did not rediscover ma xims
They we're the DID maxims which served
him How some men can square Things
that are not square - an interesting
psychological study Laughter II ~
easy 20 be bold and audaclouls when a
situation - popular and dramatic. IL u
not easy when the situation has no nus
, trIonic characteristics. THIS man did
not play u please the audience. he
PLAYED - serve the audience. Applause
Among those - the SPEAKERS table
besides Judge Foster. Mr.. Curtis, Gov.
Francis ana President Wilson we're
Charles :. Fairchild, former Secretary
oi the Treasury under Cleveland. William
Mc Adop. Claveland's Secretary 81 the
SFvy. Francis Lynde SistsOu. Cleve-
lands former law partner; Josiah Quincy
IT Boston. G :. Hamlin. y. {. Benedlct.
samuel = colt. Justices keoKh and Gil
derrlaave and former Congressman laafe
Pence - Missouri
. Others among the diners were MagTans
4 Coke. william SulzsT. william II. Null
+ doom. james " Osborne De Isancey
Nicoll. John q Milhurn. Peter X. Olnsy.
Henry " Rogers. dean 81 the Yale Law
school: Peter T. Barlow George y. Cor
tslynu Herman Ridder Herman 4. Metz.
Justic" Edward whitney Morgan J
o Bri-n. Magiztrat" Cornell. Francis \
Pendletpn and Justice Marley Piatzsk
Among those who -ent regrets we're
Mayor Gavnor Iuslson Harmon. Hilary
4 HeTberi. Richard Olnev Adlai =.
Stevenson John q. Carlisle Hoke smith
and IA u y Mn Richard Olney wrote
4 regard Mr. cleveland - the very
~ Dtel ~ an american constitutional
P-Hsdenr Tho proposition ~ -rindry
r publican statesmen that more power
, needed for the udfional Government
tlan the Constitution gives " and thai 10
L Nlp'Aiu - EpN through stsEI ~-~lfitldl
/ Legislation. through Judicial Con~trtE-
ton and through eNecutiv" action would
have struck him a. meaning trescherv
70 m" people and Involving perjury by
Ciovernnent officials
+ Francis T.ynde Stet-on -d'd that Mr.
/ Cleveland was a politician ~ the ir~'
order: a man who had - impressed him
self upon the people 81 the country AZ
large when he was Governor Of New York
that there was no question a. - who
would he the Presidcnt,al nominee in 1884
Some one once asked Mr. Cleveland
why he took little interest in a PROPOSE
tion to improve the Hudson River. he
replied that whe9 he was IN Albany he
thought u was the greatest river in the
world but that after he got - Washing
ton he learned that the Mississippi Was
greater.
There was nothing IN Mr. Cleveland's
power that he would not do for a friend
Nh Stetson said. but during the latter
part 81 his administration he felt that
his friends were falling from him and
ha tes4 the White HnFaw = hVozan haa remS