Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-03
Five Minutes a Day With Our Presidents
 Copyright 1s2o-Ey James Morgan

lOSo-n1hfch-4S OkOFcf NlcNeidnu
 AuEursted a second time, aged
 55.
 May, a great panic began.
 June 1. Cleveland went under
 surgical operation fer cancer.
 Aug. !, Congress met.
 Oct. 50, The Silver act repeal-
 ed.
 lss4--July f. Cleveland sent
 troops to Chicago to intervene
 in railroad strike.
 Aug. :7. The Wilson German
 Tarin became a law without
 Presidents signature.
 1Ss5-Feb. :, Cleveland made ar
 rnngement with J. F. Morgan
 and others for protection of
 gold reserve.
 Dec. IT, sent in his Venzuela
 message.
 1s96-March I2, England agreed to
 arbitrate Venzuelian claims.
 19oe-5u4e 24, Cleveland died at
 Princeton, N. J.. aged II.
 Grover Cleveland will be doubly re- nembered, if for no other reason, be- cause his name and his name alone ap pears twice in the list of presidents which 50 many school children have to
 
 the presidency in defeat and settled down to the practice of law in New York city than it was seen that he was still almost as much the leader of the democratic party as when he was in the White House.
 Yet this ex-president had no machine, and no organization. He did not even have friends in politics, that is to say, personal friends. Always standing on his dignity with the politicians, he unbent only in the companionship of intimates as 1 far removed from the political field as Joseph Jefferson, the actor. 1 In the four years of his retirement he seldom saw Rarty leaders. Yet so strong was the reaction against the republi- cans and so loud the call for his in 1892 that he returned in triumph to the White House.
 Grover Grover: four more years of l Grover,
 Out they go. in we go, then we'll be in clover
 So ran the favorite song of that cam paign But a second term never has been field OF clover for any president | It was fii'> Tor Cleveland One of the periodical panics of tho i 18th centul. cJ 'htTS Mith 1 financial and industrial paralysis in 1S93 only two months after the inauguration As usual the party in power caught all the blame, and day after day leadins {; republican newspaper shouted in gleefu i headlines: Another bank gone demo l cratic!'
 As the first means of restoring conf 'afice. Cleveland called a special sessiog of congress for the purpose of having Il repeal the Silver act of the Harrison ad ministration. The next day he submitted himself to the surgeons knife for tho removal of a cancerous ulcer which hae appeared in the roof of his mouth. Hi! grave physical condition was concealed from the panicky mind of the public. ant the operation was performed in the clos est secrecy aboard a yacht as it steamed slowly up the East River. of New York Not until many years had passed was known that when congress assembled Ii , faced it with a rubber jaw. Under the pressure of the president } the Silver act was repealed but only aft CT bitter struggle which left the demo cratic party hopelessly split. Th' passage of tariff bill divided the part s1 still more, It was such a loSby-madC ] log rolling measure that Cleveland re : fused to sign it, but let it become laV without his signature. After that sorr exhibition of themselves, the democrat went down in a vell-merited defeat the congressional elections of 1894. To complete the general demoraliEatior the railroads were tied up in the Middl West by big strike under the leadershi of Eugene V. Debs. With the aid of ir : functions and troops, Cleveland kept tn roads open, but his unprecedented use c fn6n f0 popular feeling that he was more COT f cerned for the interests of property tha for the interests of the working peopl whose wages were continually goin r down.
 v In the depth of our domestic trouble r the president sent his famous Venzue g ian message to congress In it he ar nounced that the British government ha e rejected all our appeals for the arbitra ' tion of land dispute which It was press l. ing in South America and he boldly pro s posed that we our selves should decide th 8 question and then proceed to enforce oJ n decision.
 s Stocks tumbled headlong in Londo T and New York and there was much vii talk on both sides of the Atlantic. B, v the president confidently reassured h II troubled private secretary, ''Thurber, tn uoeS not mean war IL means dTDltrs r ton" And that was the outcome of a .. . kle hubb,t,. tA'veiand's oUtburst ( e plain speaking haG the effect of awakel :, ing the English people ,as never befor a a to the value of American friendship, ar ,t it opened q new era in the relations ,t the two governments. n Cleveland's hardest, longest battle , his second administration was for ti gold standard Almost alone he uphe D it through four years, abandoned I ,s most of the democrats and unaided l. the goll republicans in congress. wi e were afraid of hurting the party" vii s. the silver people.
 E Throughout those years of doubt ar 7, panic, the business world morbid l. watched the fall of the gold resery n The treasury was overhowlng with siiv I all the while, and if the Soveramel Lalo hA ~.