Show CU = YI LAXJ IN BUFFALO Came lobe Elected 3Iayor He 110w oWU Washington today Hon Grover U duly inaugu Buffalo was of imd o CJ Sntot the United States He rridcnt d rttecl ltcl twentyfifth President and the ReelS Ree-lS the t Buffalo who has attained cit1Zfl t of 0111 1 Cl oIl office the first one being the tbat great President f Millard 1illniore who became rOSl late t x the death of President Taylor 1 in dell t Oil iS5OOnly ago the new President Only three years March 4 Jmavor of Buffalo and on i wts 1tyor would have said lmpossI 11 lo 1SS2 he would who 4licUlostoany one Sve wf ridiculous dieted to him the event of today predicted imepreu of his public career The C ICU ivondcrf l tances political fortune area are-a his but little reminiscences well know Il 5 advancement ancen denK bearing on his at bcarm Sri 1 en t 11 n 01 pace urny not be out fact that m the fall I It i S wdlknowll were at 51 I l si the local Jemocracy of ISS1 for mayor 1ir I in regartl to a candidate his law pr1ctllc ClevClaIId was bUSY so far of politics 1 as out 0 rcardel 8nd was c oflice was for any a5 1eflg a caiidithite hancock IHc5idential lii the coucerlIel little part and he tool very lmIugn One two S1CCClt I inalC ouly one before or the city conycn lon afternool just rhO hal heen busy IlI ClevCIflfll Lawyer cntered tIle reSttUrLI1t of in court ilI Michael tIav 1011 At one of the lwit frielul of Democratic pohti 0111 J 0 ait a group ties Bussing the mayorality 1 question C als Cleveland entered one of them t Theres the man we want SKi invited to join the circle On Zf he down jfl it was suggested to him that jttin the Democratic candidate for iie become lie 1 ror Mr Cleveland laughed the idea inavor I What do I want to be mayor forlc to corn said Ive got all I can attend i to ami besides if I wanted an ofiice I it would not be that of mayor of Buffalo The conference broke satisfied that Mr Cleveland up Cleve-land could not be induced to run Then came the celebrated starchamber city convention at Tivoli hall engineered hr 1 the late Tames G Mnldoon who was chairman of the city committee Admission Admis-sion could only be had by ticket and the Commercial that afternoon headed its report of the convention Muldoons 1iciiic a name which always stuck to it Mr Cleveland was unanimously nominated for mayor and a committee oi three was appointed to see if he would accept If not they were instructed to offer the nomination to Aid George W Patridge In order to facilitate Mr Clevelands acceptance John C Sheehan who had been renominated by acclamation I acclama-tion for comptroller was withdrawn and < 1 Timothy J Mahoney substituted I It was about 5 oclock in the afternoon when Mr Cleveland appeared in the convention and made a short speech in which he said that he accepted the nomination Ii nomi-nation with reluctance but would do so because he was a democrat and as such could not fail to respond to the call of his party The famous veto of the streetcleaning contract swindle as it was called Mon I day June 25 1882 did more than anything j any-thing el e to make Mr Clevelands reputation repu-tation as mayor but as a matter of fact I its effect was entirely discounted by the I aldermen whoas was said at the time nearly tumbled over one another in their haste to rescind their action in the matter before the mayors veto came in i This they succeeded in doing but the veto iias afterward read and ordered re ceired and filed Its effect of course lad been entirely forestalled On the Morning of the day it was sent in a re jflrfrr of The Commercial called on Mayor Cleveland to ask for an advance copy of the expected veto to print in the third I edition Well said the mayor Ive I lJt1 veto prepared and I think it a I pretty stiff one but I dont want to give it to you because I am afraid they wont receive it It makes a man sick he continued to think of their action and I have used some plain language The reporter suggested that the council was Inund to receive an official communication communica-tion from the mayor and after some per 11a11l His Honors scruples about allow cj in advance copy to be taken were rome on the pledge however that if I 1 document was not read it should not tinted may say that Mr Cleveland was iiruTs wry clever to the newspaper men Vunj out his public documents all of uluhho wrote himself after consulta hun with IIH clerk Hon Harmon S Cut 1111g V t > notice a dispatch from Washington Wash-ington siys that he intends to declaim his iI au iul address from memory This is jhanutiTHic and it is an old habit with hun to Ante out and memorize what he has to H y He did FO at the meeting of the bar rallol to tike action on the death of Ins fiicml Oscar Folsom when he jnado a touching and beautiful speech Jt t us thought to be impromptu but the r1ortr knn jeportor otherwise as they already hat the manuscript word for word us he aclivwvil it When as Mayor lie was jailed upon to deliver the address at the Jajinjr of the cornerstone of the new YOUng Ilns Christian i Association build in g on Mohawk street a reporter for the t11 iv iLipproached him to obtain a Jiusaoi time manu ciipt after the ad rl t7 mts < < ellVMed Oh here it is von frotn It now salt 1 the 1 Mayor I Wrote It out but I know it by heart H It imi tIll Hlmt way wIth his speech at the RmimIiteimnial mniycrary of the city iieil iulv 1 d 1882 and also his speech at ti1 dediatjoim or the Filch lnstitut c lIuflalo t omnwrdal |