Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 18, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 1 July 1908 — Page 2

CLEVELAND’S DEATH SHOCK TO COUNTRY Ex-President Succumbs Unexpectedly, Though He Had Long Been 111. . ~1 ■ - ■■■ ■ ■ ■ . Great Democrat, Twice President of the United States, Dies at His Home in Princeton, Aged Seventy-One Years—Sketch of His Career, from Poor Boy to the Highest Elective Office in the World-Famous Venezuelan Message

Princeton, N. J. —Grover Cleveland, twice president of the United States, died suddenly Wednesday at his home here. Mr. Cleveland had been a sufferer from gout and diabetes for more than two years. Early in 1906 he was stricken with an attack of indigestion, j the result of diabetes, and for weeks was unable to partake of any except liquid nourishment, ~A Sojourn in the south improved, health considerably, and his sudden demise comes as a complete surprise. A statement, signed by Dr. Joseph Li. Bryant, Dr. George R. Lockwood and Dr. J. M. Camochan, explaining the death of their patient, was given out: “Mr. Cleveland for many years has suffered from repeated attacks of gastral intestinal origin. Also he has a long-standing organic disease of the heart and kidneys and heart failure complicated with pulmonary thrombosis and oedema were the immediate causes of his death.” Cleveland’s Early Struggles. Grover Cleveland was born at Caldwell. Essex county, N. J., March 18, 1837. Asa country boy, he left home when 16 years of age, charged not only with the necessity of making his own way in the world, but with the responsibility of providing for his mother and sisters. He fought the liattle stufdily and not only won, but achieved the highest honors that can •come to an American. His father was a Presbyterian minister. The son was christened Stephen Grover, in honor of Rev. Stephen Grover, who had preceded Rev. Mr. Cleveland in the pastorate of the little church at Caldwell. In "even the earliest childhood of the boy, however, the parents omitted the name Stephen and addressed him always as Grover. The son always signed his name as Grover Cleveland. In 1841 the family removed to Fayetteville, N. Y. They lived afterward at Clinton and Holland Patent. Grover, while he attended school, served in his spare hours as clerk in a country store. His father died in 1853. His money, it was found, had been expended for the education of his children. It devolved upon Grover, then 10 years of age, to qualify as a contributing member of his family. Through his brother, who was connected with the New York institution for the blind, he secured appointment there as assistant teacher. •Attracted by Law Career. Two years gave him enough of teaching. He was ambitious ‘to become a lawyer and to work in a field that offered more advantages than could be found in the east. The city, of his choice was Cleveland, Ohio. All of his spare, earnings having been sent to his mother, he required borrowed capital td ggt his start in the world. The amount of this capital was S3O and the friendwho. gave it to him was an old man who had been a deacon ...lnlhli"fafhei's. church. .ITfie lender'-s----security was a note signed by the boy. That it was sufficient was proved two years later when.he received a remittance covering the amount of the loan with interest. Grover started in J 855 for Cleveland by way of the Erie canal. He stopped over for a day at Buffalo to visit a rich uncle, Lewis F, Allen. The latter prevailed upon'the youthful pilgrim to make his home, in Buffalo. He provided Grover with six weeks' work at $lO a week to assist in' the compilation of a herd book and secured for him a place in the office of a prominent law firm-. Asa law clerk he received $4 a week, In 1859 Cleveland was admitted to the bar. He'remained in the service' of the law firm as managing clerk, in view of which dignity and honor his stipend was increased to $lO a week. On January 1, 1863, he was appointed assistant district attorney of Erie county. He allowed himself the bare necessities oT life. Every surplus dollar was sent to his mother and sisters. At this time he was drafted for serv- . Ice In the union army. He borrowed s money and sent a substitute to thewar. Much was made of this fact in the political campaigns of later days. ..Friends of Cleveland replied that his action was in accordance with the custom of those days, when some members of a .family went to war, while others remained to care for the ones. Two of Cleveland's brothers were in the army. Entrance Into Politics'. * In 1865 Cleveland was nominated for district attorney. Ha he*** the~prc-

tice of law. He also maintained a keen interest in politics. In 1866 he was chairman of the county committee. He had few intimate friends, but was favored by a strong following of men attracted by -his power of leadership. In 1870 he was elected sheriff and filled the office for three years. Then he returned to law. Success was gained by hard, faithful work. He had never been accused of being brilliant, but he was thorough, and gained by conscientious digging the victory that came to others by so-called genius. In 1881 he-was elected mayor of Buffalo, as a Democrat, by a plurality of 3,500. The candidates on the Republican state ticket carried the city by 1,600. After the election Cleveland said in a letter to his brother that he proposed-to stand in the relation of an employe to the people of the city. His one aim would be to render faithful service to his employer. In carrying out this resolution he became known as the “veto mayor.”

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It was an honorable title. Buffalo had long been in the grip of unscrupulous politicians. , .. Grown arrogant from power and rich fropi graft, they had come to regard rule wholly to -their interest as a settled right. Mayor Cleveland disabused their minds. Raids on the treasury were blocked by-his veto; Officeholders were warned that their allegiance was due the people. Claims of friendship and the pressure of powerful influence .were without effect upon him. His sturdy fights in the intereit.of his “employer” were widely published and attracted attention throughout the state; . Governor of New York. So it happened that when the Democrats in 18S2 cast about for a candidate for governor their eye naturally turned toward Buffalo. Grover Cleveland was placed at the head of their ticket. He was elected over Charles J. Folgfclv, then , secretary of the treasury, by 200,000 plurality. Cleveland’s record and bis overwhelming victory 'n -the election made him* "a national figure. There was widespread .curiosity as to the course he would pursue as governor. He gained new celebrity through his vetoes. He refrained from discourses on public affairs and framed no theory

of government, but he gave keen attention to the matters brought before him for action. When these seemed not to be for the public good his disapproval was expressed promptly and with the plainest words in his vocabulary. From 12 to 14 hours a day were devoted to the investigation of bills and reports submitted to him for a<v tlon. On July 11, 1884, in Chicago, he was nominated to oppose James G. Blaine in the campaign for the presidency. A slender plurality in New York state turned the scale and he became the first Democratic president since the civil war. The second time in his life that he visited 'Washington was when he went to the capital to take office as president. His bearing on the stand erected for the inaugural revealed his masterful character to the experienced statesmen who sat around him. Stretched before him were more people than he had ever seen assembled for any purpose. They were enthusiastic, but neither their demonstrations nor thought of the grave responsibilities he was about to assume ass acted him in the' degree. He was calm as any man there having nothing at stake. When the time came to speak he advanced to the bar firmly and coolly as a lawyer in court. Deliberately and in a strong voice he delivered his address of 8,000 words, and he shattered all precedents by giving it from memory instead of from manuscript. He declared for the Monroe doctrine, economy, protection of the Indians, security of the freedmen, and for civil service. Famous Venezuelan Message. The death of Mr. Cleveland will iccall to all the days whep he was the most forecful figure in American public life. Nothing which he ever did while president attracted more attention than the famous message he sent to congress in December, 1895, on the subject of Great Britain’s controversy with Venezuela over the boundary between tile latter country and British Guiana. The-foundation for Mr. Cleveland's message was the note of Secretary of State Olney to Lord Salisbury, the British minister for foreign affairs. That note was written during the congressional recess, three months before congress convened, und b .ore Mr.

Cleveland’s message was prepared The Olney note was drafted after- a consultation between the secretary ot* state and Me. Cleveland during the summer at Great Gables on Buzzard’s bay.- Mr. Olney went there to confer with the president about the Venezue-. lan question. The note was submitted to every member of the cabinet. War Wa* Net Feared. Mr. Hilary A. Herbert, then secretary of the treasury in Mr. Cleveland's cabinet, has said of the incident: “1 reme'mber that as the note developed it almost took my breath away, and I was inclined to Oppose its presentation, but before the reading was finished I realized its force and value arftl I heartily approved it.” “Did you anticipate that war would result • -from, the message?” he was asked. “No, I did not think so,,because X did not think there was enough in the controversy to cause a war between the two countries which were so closely allied in blood and business. Os course, such measures as could be taken with the means in hand to be prepared,in case’of trouble were taken by the navy department, but there was neither time nor money nor opportunity to make any extend ve prepara tlons.”

ABSENCE OF POMP MARKS FUNERAL l In Accordance with the Wishes of the Widow, Final Ceremonies for Ex-President Cleveland Are of the Most Simple Description— Prominent Men Present.

Among notable utterances of the late ex-President Cleveland the following will be longest remembered:

Public office Is a public trust. After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. It is a condition which confronts us—not a theory. Party honesty is party expediency. If the wind is in the south or west so much the better, but let’s go fishing, wherever the wind may be. Don’t give your friend wild duck uncooked unless his wife knows how to cook it; the gift will be discredited in the eating. The duck-hunter is bom, not made. I would not have our people sober; but I would have them thoughtful and patriotic. t do not believe that nations any more than individuals can violate the rules of honesty and fairdealing. Tread lightly, gentlemen, for you have to do with temples of the Holy Ghost. (This to assembled physicians.)

Princeton. —The funeral of Grover Cleveland was marked by extreme simplicity. No pomp nor splendor had place in the ceremonies. There were no bands to play dirges on the way to the old Princeton cemetery, no military escort, no eulogy by the officiating clergymen. The half mile of thoroughfare through which the cortege passed from Westland, the Cleveland home on Bayard lane, to the cemetery was policed by mounted troops, but they were there for police duty and as a measure of precaution in protecting the living president rather than for display in paying tribute to a departed chief executive. Four clergymen officiated at the house and at the grave. They read the burial service from .the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship, but offered no eulogy. This simple but impressive service was conducted by Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton, Rey. Dr. Williams R. Richards, pastor of the Brick Presbyterian church of New York; Rev. Sylvester W. Beach, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Princeton, where the Cleveland family attended, and Rev. Maitland V. Bartlett, former pastor of the same church. * There were no honorary pallbearers. Those who bore Mr. Cleveland’s body to its final resting place in the Cleveland plot were Mayor George B. McClellan, Paul Morton, Commodore E. C. Benedict, Richard Watson Gilder of New York; Prof. Paul Van Dyke, Dean Andrew F. West, Prof. Jo.hn G. Hibben, Junius S. Morgan, a nephew of J • Pierppnt Morgan; A. D. Russell, Prof. Howard MeLenahan, and Bayard Stockton of Princeton. The simple Presbyterian service was said at the grave, the casket lowered into the ground, and one of the country’s most distinguished citizens had become but a memory. A silyer* plate on the casket bore the inscription: “Grover Cleveland, March 18, 1837June 24, 1908.”-' President Roosevelt Gov. f'ort of New Jersey,Gov. Hughes of NewYork, Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia, members of President, Cleveland’s cabinet, and other notable citizens attended the funeral. After the ceremony the president left Princeton at once in his private car Signet. Mr. Cleveland was buried here in the family plot in the old Princeton cemetery, where, under a little ivycovered mound, now lies the body of his eldest daughter, Ruth, who died here at Westland in January, 1904. It is not far from the entrance to the cemetery on Witherspoon street, less than a quarter of a mile from the university campus, and adjoins a tiny chapel. For many generations the presidents of ‘Princeton university have been buried in this cemetery. Here, too, rests the body of Lawrence Huttion, and not far away stands the monument to the memory of the brilliant and erratic Aaron Burr. ’ TRIBUTE T 6 GREAT MAN. President Roosevelt's Proclamation Eulogizing Dead Statesmafi.—7=3= Oyster Bay. N. Y. —News of the death of ex-President Grover Cleveland was communicated to President Roosevelt at his summer home here and caused radical changes in the president's plans for the immediate future. 's , Mr. Roosevelt was .shocked at the tidings, and telegraphed to Mrs. Cleveland at Princeton, N. J., tendering his sympathy and that of Mrs. Roosevelt. Afterward announcement was made that President and Mrs. Roosevelt 0 ..

would attend the funeral services at Princeton. Mr. Roosevelt Immediately announced that he would abandon his proposed trip to New London, Conn., to witness the Harvard-Yale boat races. He also Issued a proclamation to the country, eulogizing the dead statesman, ordering all government flags half-masted for 30 days, and directing that military and naval honors be accorded the late president on the day of the funeral. A beautiful floral wreath was ordered by the president to be sent In his name and that of Mrs. Roosevelt to Princeton, to be placed by the bier. In accordance with custom. President Roosevelt issued a special proclamation .when advised of the death of the ex-president. The proclamation follows: By the President of the United States. A Proclamation. The White Hou*se, June 24, 1908. To the People of the United States: Grover Cleveland, president of the United States from 1885 to 18S9 and again from 1893 to 1897, died at 8:40 o’clock this morning at his home in Princeton, N. J. In his death the nartionnas been deprived of one of its greatest citizens. By profession a lawyer, his chief services to his country were rendered during a long, varied and honorable career in public life. As mayor of his city, as governor of his state, and twice as president, he showed signal power as an admtnistrator, coupled with entire devotion so the country’s good and a courage that quailed before no hostility when once he was convinced wher. his duty lay. Since his retirement from the presidency he has continued well and faithfully to serve his countrymen by the simplicity, dignity, and uprightness of his private life. In testimony of the respect in which his memory is held by the government and people of the United States, I do hereby direct that the flags on the White Hove and the several departmental buildings be displayed at half-staff for a period of 30 days, and that suitable military and naval honors, under the orders of the war and of the navy be rendered on the day of the funeral. Done this twenty-fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-second. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By the president, ALVEY A. ADEE, Acting Secretary of State. _ ''•**•*. Render All Official Honors. Washington.—Appropriate honors were paid to the memory of ex-l’resi-dent Cleveland by all branches of the government. Immediately upon the receipt of the president’s proclamation formally announcing Mr. Cleveland’s death steps'"were taken to carry out the provisions of the executive proclamation. All army posts and stations and all commanders-in-chief of fleets in the navy, captains of detached ships and navy yards and naval stations, were ordered to fly the national colors at half staff for 30 days. ALL JOIN IN TRIBUTE. Testimony to the Character and Ability of Grover Cleveland. Prominent men of all party affiliations and leaders In their respective walks in life joined in tributes to the worth of GroVer Cleveland. Among them were the following:

“He was one of the really great men of the country.”—W. H. Taft. “He was the best type of public servant and private citizen.”— Vice-President Fairbanks. “No man realized more fully the Ideal, of an incorruptible public servant.” —George B. Cortelyou. “The country has lost a citizen whose wisdom, courage, and patriotism were of the highest order.”—Admiral Dewey. “His place in history Is sure. Nothing that can be written or withheld can add to or detract from his imperishable fame.” — Adlai E. Stevenson, ‘Grover Cleveland was a typical product of American life, blood, and training.”—Judson Harmon. “Grover Cleveland was too great a man to . dismiss with a few words.” —John G. Carlisle. “One of the greatest presidents the United States has ever had.”— Harry Pratt Judson, president of the University of Chicago. “He was all that any one could be.” —Lambert Tree. "He had a way of gaining the respect even of his enemies.”— Judge Kenesaw M. Landis. “He was ever impelled by a conviction of what was right, and having formed that conviction he was a rock.”—Judge Peter S. Grosscup. “When his history is properly written he will be rated as one of the half dozen greatest presidents.”—Gov. Johnson of Minnesota. “Mr. Cleveland’s death ends the phenomenal career of one of the strongest characters in the political world of the present generation.”—William J. Bryan.

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