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Show GROVER'S STAR. About once in so often Mr. Cleveland launches upon the country one of his ponderous opinions of the right thing for the Democratic party to do in order to regain power. Tariff reform is a trump card with him, about the only important slogan in his estimation for the party to rally to. Mothers Moth-ers ought to pray that if any more children are given them, they may be born under Grover's star. His career has been the most wonderful one recorded in American history. Though college col-lege bred and trained to the law he could not make a living and accepted a petty county office, then the mayorality of the city of Buffalo. To balance the geographical claims in the State of New York he vas nominated for Governor. A quarrel among Republicans caused half of them to refuse to cast their vote on election day, which caused Grover to be elected by an unprecedented majority. That caused him to be nominated for President. By a trick the votes cast for General Butler on Long Island were counted for him, which gave him the State by about 1000 plurality and he was elected. While President he wanted to visit his old home in Buffalo, but such was his private record there that the house of every gentleman gen-tleman in the city was closed against him. He served out his term. He had said no word, penned no sentence, save some vetoes for pensions for Union soldiers, that any one can now recall. But his party could agree upon no one else and he was nominated. This time he was beaten, but a partnership was tendered him in a firm of great New York lawyers. He held the place for four years and once more his party nominated him, and because of the Homestead lockout, he was once more elected. Only disaster followed his official career. He exerted all his bulldozing personaiiB to kill silver as money, his friend Wilson dmh.B a free trade measure and crowded it through iB House, which, had not Gorman throttled It S amended it out of all likeness to its original JB in the Senate would, had it become a law a3 fl went up from the House to the Senate, havesfl solutely prostrated the business of the countrB When he went out of office there was a sigh relief throughout the Republic. But in the meat time though business was prostrate along a thoc sand lines, he had managed to accumulate a fo-tune fo-tune variously estimated at from $2,000,000 t $5,000,000. Ho was in the full vigor of his manhood wh first elected President, but he knew nothing t either the tariff or the silver question. Lan, and Wilson schooled him on the latter subjcc they dug up the free trade plank from the grat of the dead Confederacy and convinced him tl .it could be disinfected and polished and it won be a beauty, and he believed them. Dan Ma: ning, a New York national banker, poisoned i mind on the silver question. Though eight jea; President he has never been in any portion oft! western half of the Republic over which he ri so long chief magistrate; he could not bound I& ho or Wyoming to save his life, and yet it I clear enough that he believes he is a profound! wise man and we suspect he secretly calculate upon the lightning striking for a third time at that he will again be nominated for President What his hold is upon his party no man ca: explain, but wives should pray that if they eTt: become mothers Grover's star may shine aboi the cradle of their offspring. |