People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — MR. CLEVELAND’S MILLIONS. [ARTICLE]

MR. CLEVELAND’S MILLIONS.

Where and How Did He Get Them—lnvestigation Recommended, New York Press: The country would like for congress to make an unequivocal investigation into the means by which Mr. Cleveland, during his two presidential terms, has become a multimillionaire. Mr. Cleveland is the first man to acquire a fortune while president. He is not a man above investigation any more than William M. Tweed, Oakey Hall or Peter B. Sweeny. As sheriff of Erie county and as mayor of Buffalo he was known as having “an itching palm.” An exhibit printed in the New York Tribune of that period showed that he could charge per diem for more days of “personal extra work,” apart from his deputies, in one year than the calendar counted in two. In President Grant’s term it became known that Grant was surrounded by a coterie of mert who were scheming to make money out of him. It was charged that Gould and Fisk had made use of Corbin, Grant’s brother-in-law, to get an order stopping the ordinary treasury sale of gold, under pretense that a rise in the premium on gold would increase exports, and as a consequence body had made money. This was gold had been sent up to 165 and somethought a sufficient cause for a searching investigation by congress. What was sauce for Grant should surely be sauce for Cleveland. It is charged that >9,000,000 of needless and excessive profit was recently made by two New York brokerage and banking firms through a national loan which was secretly effected by contract drawn, not by the Attorney-General, but by Mr. Cleveland’s private law firm’ The people have a right to know more about the reason why the transaction went through this irregular way. The bioker, Benedict, who by common report has stood between Cleveland and all his relations of business and pleasure from New York city to Buzzard’s Bay, is also said to have retired on a large fortune.