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Show TRIBUTE TO CLEVELAND Wilson Considers Him One of Most Notable of Presidents Washington. Mar. 13 President Wilson today declined an initation to be present on March IS, Grover Cleveland's birthday, at the dedication dedica-tion of the Cleveland birthplace in Caldwell, N. J , as a public memorial The president wrote to John H. Fin-ley, Fin-ley, president of the college of the ( ii of N'-w York, expressing his re-gn re-gn I end eulogizing the character of Mr Cleveland "I wish with all ray heart that It were possible consistently with the performance of my new duties hero to he present on tbe occasion of the I dedication of Mr. Cleveland's birthplace birth-place to the public as a memorial, but Inasmuch as I am bound here by obligations, ob-ligations, 1 cannot escape, and I must content myself with requesting that on will read this message to those assembled. "From the first I have been deeply Interested In the dan to acquire Mr. ! Cleveland's birthplace for the public I As we see him In Jusl perspective, he leoms up as one of the most notable , figures In our long line of presidents i I send these lines, therefore as a I sincere tribute of respect and admlm- !,,pn" . |