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Show PURELY PERSONAL. On Monday night Ex-President Cleveland spoke in Buffalo for tie first time since 1SS3. It was the occasion occa-sion of the fiftieth anniversary cf the German Young Men's Association. In response to a toast at dinner given after the meeting adjourned, Cleveland Cleve-land made use of the following words in regard to the raasons of his being defeated for the presidency: I recall distinctly the celebration of Buffalo's semi-centennial and was well acquainted with the man who was then mayor. This man afterwards dabbled in state and national politics. At any rate he had a goverment job for four years and then like others lost his place. He was accused. I am told, of talking too much about the tariff and charged with attempting to ruin the country in divers and sundry ways. In point fact, however, I am convinced that notwithstanding all we hear of civil service reform, he was discharged for purely partisan reasons. lie did a great deal of hard work and was much perplexed and troubled, but I know his greatest trial was his alienation of many personal friends in making appointments ap-pointments to office. It was impossible to avoid this, and it will continue to be impossible so long as the applicant and appointer occupy such entirely different points of observation, and as long as public duty may sometime stand in the way of personal friend-shin." |
