Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1888 — A Condensed Double Biography. [ARTICLE]

A Condensed Double Biography.

Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland aro of about the same age. Both are of honorable parentage. Both are lawyei’s. Both sought homes mid business in growing eitfes. So much for the likeness between them. And there it ends. *• Harrison took a bride with him to Indianapolis. Cleveland went to Buffalo a bachelor. Harrison built a home. Cleveland lived in his law chambers. Harrison taught a Sunday school class of young lawyers. Cleveland—he traveled in another direction. Harrison was elected reporter of tho supremo court of Indiana, with honorable and most responsible duties. Cleveland was elected sheriff of Erie county, on office that also had its duties. Tho war broke out. Harrison volunteered; Cleveland was drafted. Harrison recruited a regiment and went to the front. Cleveland re.cruited a substitute and remained in Buffalo. Harrison has been true to every promise he has made to’ man or woman, to party or the nation. Cleveland has been true to himself, and kept such promises as it was for his interest hot to break. Such are the two candidates. How well do they represent the parties that support them? —Boston Traveller. , \ <r '*