Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — Letter from Gov. Cleveland. [ARTICLE]

Letter from Gov. Cleveland.

The Rev. Dr. Kinsley Turning, in a letter to the New York Independent, says: I take the.liberty to publish (and I know it will be a surprise to Mr. Cleveland and all his relatives) a private letter written by him to his brother, Rev. William N. Cleveland, on the day that he was elected Governor of New York, and which passed into the hands of a friend who has for many years taken almost a parental interest in his family, by whom it was given tome: Mayor’s Office, ) Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 7,1882. j My Dear Brother: I have just voted. I sit here in the Mayor's office alone, with the exception of an artist from Prank Leslie’s newspaper, who is sketching the office. If mother was here I should be writing to her, and I feel as if it were time for me to write to some one who will believe what I write. 1 have been for some time in the atmosphere of certain success, so that I have been sure that I should assume the duties.of the high office to which I have been named. I have tried hard, in the light of this fact, to properly appreciate the responsibilities that will rest upon me. and they Ore much, too much, underestimated. But the thought that has troubled me is, can I well perform my duties, and in such a manner as to do some good to the people of the State? I know there is room for it, and I know that I am honest and sincere in my desire to do well; but the question is whether I know enough to accomplish what I desire. The social lifewhi-jh awaits me has also been a subject of much anxious thought. I have a notion that I can regulate that very much as I desire, and if I can, I shall spend very little time in the purely ornamental part of the office. In point of fact, I will tell you first of all other the policy I intend to adopt, and that is to make the matter a business engagement between the people of the State and myself, in which the obligation on my side is to perform the duties assigned me with an eye single to the interest of my employers. 1 shall h ve no idea of re-election, or of any higher political preferment in my head, but be very thankful and happy if I can well serve one term as the people’s Governor. Do you know that if mother were alive I should feel so much safer? I have always thought that her prayers had much to do with my success. I shall expect you all to helpme in that way. Give my love to and to ,if she is with you, and believe me, your affectionate brother, Grover Cleveland. The startling exposure of Speaker Blaihe’s venality in connection with the Union Pacific Road, Eastern Division, entirely destroys, of course, whatever credit some people may have given his evasive denial of the Oakes Ames bribery, and puts the whole case of the Credit Mohilier upon a different basis. • * » Now His shown

that Speaker Blaine never deserved his good reputation. He had taken bribes in another case.— New York Tribune, Sept. 30, 1872.