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Show Was Proud of His Choice. A southerner who attended the Til-den Til-den club dinner in New York the other evening listened to Cleveland and tie other speakers with much interest in-terest and then recalled a story of the big man who originally hailed irom Buffalo. During his first term as president Mr. Cleveland was traveling travel-ing in the south on one occasion and ' stopped at Weldon, N. C, where a crowd had assembled. One old backwoodsman back-woodsman pressed forward and grasped the president's hand saying: "I've voted for many a president, but I never seed one before." Then, after aft-er a pause, he added: "And you're such a whopper, too." |
