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Show CBOVER'S STAR. About once In so often Mr. Cleveland Cleve-land 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 re-form Is a trump card with him, about the only important slogan in his estimation esti-mation 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 Orovcr's star. His career has been the most wonderful one recorded re-corded In American history. Though collego bred and trained to the law he could not make a living and accepted a petty county office, then the major-allty major-allty of the city of Buffalo. To balance the gcographic.il claims In the state of New York he was nominated for Governor. A quarrel among Republicans Repub-licans caused half of them to refuse to cast their vote on election day, which caused G rover to be elected by an unprecedented un-precedented 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. elect-ed. While President lie wanted to v lsit his old home In Buffalo, but such was his private record there that the house of every gentleman 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 ono else and he was nominated. This time he was beaten, but a partnership was tendered him In a firm of great New York lawyers. law-yers. 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 Ids official career. He exerted all his bulldozing personality to kill sliver as money, his friend Wilson drafted a free trade measure and crowded It through "the House, which, had not Gorman throttled throt-tled It and amended it out of all likeness like-ness to its original self In the Senate would, had It become a law as It went up from tho House to the Senate, have absolutely prostiated the business busi-ness of the country. When he went out of office there was a sigh of relief throughout tho Republic. But hi the meantime though business was prostrate pros-trate along a thousand lines, he had managed to accumulate a foi tunc variously estimated at from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. Ho was in the full vigor of his manhood man-hood when first elected President, but he knew nothing of cither the tariff or tho silver question. Lamar and Wilson schooled him on the latter subject: they dug up the free tiade plank from the grave of tho dead Confederacy Con-federacy and convinced him that it could be disinfected and polished and It would be a beauty, and he believed them. Dan Manning, a New York national banker, poisoned bis mind on the silver question. Though eight j cars President he has never been in any portion of tho western half of the Republic over which ho was so long chief magistrate; lie could not bound Idaho or Wyoming to save his life, and yet it Is clear enough that lie believes lie Is a profoundly wise man and wo suspect he secretly calculates upon the lightning striking for a third time and that ho will again bo nominated for President. What Ills hold Is upon his party no man can explain, but wives should pray that If they ever become mothers Grover's star may shine above the crado of their offspring. Goodwin's Weekly. v-w - |