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Show iEXP RESIDENT CLEVELAND IS EULOGIZED BY PRESIDENT TAFT At Cleveland Memorial Exercises, Speaker Refers to Many Public Problems Prob-lems Dealt With During Grover Cleveland's Administration Enumerates Enum-erates Dead Statesman's Chief Characteristics, Simplicity' and Honesty, Courage of Convictions, and Sense of Public Duty i i 1 New York, March IS. President ' Taft, who arrived here from Washington Washing-ton today, made an address at the Cleveland memorial exercises at Carnegie Car-negie Hall this afternoon. Mr. Taft s oddress was not only an eulogy of ex- i President Cleveland, but it Incidentally Inciden-tally referred to the many public ques-ilons ques-ilons which were dealt with during Mr. Cleveland's administration. j Mr. Taft said in part: "Fellow citizens: Grover Cleveland was as a completely American In his character as Lincoln. Without a college col-lege education, he prepared hlmseit Cor the bar. His early life was con-flued con-flued to western New York. His vis- ! ion of government and of society was not widened by foreign travel. Ho was a public product of the village and town life of the middle states, affected by New England ancestry and the ntmosphere of a clergyman's home, i J!ls chief characteristics were simplicity sim-plicity and honesty, courago of his convictions, with a sense of public duty that has been exceeded by no statesman within my knowlodge. it iiws so strong In hi mthat he rarely wrote anything, whether in the form of a private or public communication, tbat the obligation of all men to observe ob-serve the public good was not his chiet theme. "His career was a most remarkable one. By his administration of the affairs af-fairs of his city, as Its mayor, ho J showed his power of resistance to, tnd overcoming the influences that made for corruption and negligence in city government, both In his own party par-ty and In the part of his opponents. His reputation in. this regard spread over his native state of New York at a time when such an attitude of his seemed exceptional, and his standing before the community became an asset as-set of the Democratic party, that even . those who had but little sympathy with his principles, were glad to seize j upon him as a means ol getting Into I power. According, he was nominated . for the governorship and was elected by the votes, not only of his own party, but of thousands of the Republican Repub-lican party. The discharge of his duties dut-ies confirmed and strengthesert tho reputation that ho had acquired as a mayor. Before he had ceased his of-flco of-flco as mayor, he had boen elected governor. Before he had ceased his office of-fice as governor, he had been elected President of the United States. HB presidential campaign of 1SS4 resulted result-ed in slander, scandal and. abuse, but came through It retaining the conli-, conli-, dence of the American people in his ' courago and honesty and his single purpose to better the public service. ; Mr. Cleveland was a Democrat; he was a partisan. He believed in parties, part-ies, as all men must who understand the machinery essential to success of popular government." |