Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1891 — A Good One by Clev[?]land. [ARTICLE]

A Good One by Clev[?]land.

When Grover Cleveland was Governor he was fond of telling humorous stories to illustrate a point. It is said he got off a good thing on a certain ex-Assem-blyman who dropped in to see him about the time tfhe newspapers were exposing the job in the contract for putting in a new ceiling in the Albany Capitol. It appears that all during the days of Boss Tweed this ex-Assemblyman was in the lower house and fought against jobbery and against the “boss. ” Mr. Cleveland was listening to the comments of the exAssemblyman about the substitution of a paper-mache ceiling for an oak one; when, all at once, with a smile on his face, he interupted his visitor thusly: “What is the difference between the Assembly now and when you were a member?” “We were ruled then by a Democratic boss, and now by a Republican boss,” ventured the ex-member. “Oh, no. When you were a member the fraud was on the floor; now it is on the ceiling,” said Mr. Cleveland.