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And, gentlemen, now, after eighteen | judgment and iron will, but they love him months' service there, the Democracy of most for the enemies he has made.

the State of New York come to you and ask you to give to the country, to give the Independent and Democratic voters of the country, to give the young men of the country the new blood of the country, and present the name of Grover Cleveland as the standard-bearer for the next four years. I shall indulge in no eulogy of Mr Cleveland. I shall not attempt any further description of his political career. It is known. His Democracy is known. His statesmanship is known throughout the length and breadth of the land. And all I ask of this convention is to let no passion, no prejudice influence its duty which it owes to the people of this country. Be not deceived. Grover Cleveland can give the Democratic party the thirty-six electoral votes of the State of New York on election day. He can by his purity of character, by his purity of administration, by his fearless and undaunted courage to do right, bring to you more votes than can anybody else. Gentlemen of the Convention, but one word more. Mr. Cleveland's candidacy before this Convention is offered upon the ground of his honor, his integrity, his wisdom, and his Democracy [cheers], upon that ground we ask it, believing that, if ratified by this Convention, he can be elected, and take his seat at Washington as a Democratic President of the United States.

General BRAGG spoke as follows: GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: It is with feelings of no ordinary pride that I fill the post that has been assigned to me to-day

Grown gray personally fighting the battles of the Democratic party, I stand to-day to voice the sentiment of young men of my State when I speak for Grover Cleveland, of New York. [Cheers.] His name is upon their lips. His name is in their hearts. He is the choice not only of that band of young men, but he is the choice of all those who desire for the first time as young men to cast their vote in November for the candidate nominated by this Convention. They love him, gentlemen, and respect him, not only for himself, for his character, for his integrity, and

This broad nation witnessed the disgraceful spectacle of a Senator of the United States trading his proud possession for gain. Mahone and Riddleberger would scarcely be allowed to stand upon this platform to teach you whom you ought to nominate. Go to the Senate of the State of New York since Governor Cleveland has been Governor, and there you find two worthy conferees playing in a small theatre Mahone and Riddleberger over again. And why? Because the Governor of the State of New York had more nerve than the machine. They may speak of him, aye, the worst of the species may defile a splendid statue, but they only disgrace themselves. Wherever the thin disguise can be reached, you will find it covering nothing but personal grievance, disappointed ambition, as a cutting off of access to the flesh-pots to those who desire to fatten upon them. I do not assume here to speak for labor. The child of a man who always earned his daily bread by his daily labor, brought up for more than a quarter of a century, from boyhood to manhood among laborers that have made the great Northwest what it is. I do not assume to speak for labor Labor is not represented in political conventions by the soft hand of the political trickster, no matter where you find him. The men who follow conventions and talk about the rights of labor, are the Swiss contingent who place their tent wherever the prospect of profit is greatest-while honest, intelligent, horny-handed labor will be found following the old Democratic flag, thanking God that its self-styled leaders have gone where they belong. They come here to talk of labor! Yes, their labor has been upon the crank of the machine (immense applause and laughter), and their study has been political chicanery in the midnight conclave.

Governor Cleveland's Ancestry.

Governor Cleveland's great grand-father was Aaron Cleveland. He was born on the ninth of February, 1744, one hundred and forty years ago, in the town of East Haddam, the principal of the numerous

Haddams that lie along the Connecticut | in which he was a deacon for a quarter of river a short distance from Middletown. a century. In the latter part of his life he During the greater portion of his life he retired from business and removed to carried on business in the town of Nor- Buffalo, New York. He died at Black wich, where he followed his calling as a Rock in 1857 hatter. The records of the place make Richard Falling Cleveland, the second frequent mention of him, not as a hat son of William Cleveland, and the father maker, but as an active participant in the of Stephen Grover Cleveland, the nomipublic affairs of the town, as a versatile nee, was born in Norwich, June 19, 1804. speaker, an able writer, and an active poli- He is described as a pale, intellectual tician. He was one of the early opponents youth, who had a passion for reading and of slavery, and he became notorious by study, and he was entered at Yale College introducing a bill in the Connecticut Leg-in 1820, and graduated with honors in islature, in which he represented the town 1824. The graduating class consisted of of Norwich, for its abolition. The bill sixty-seven members, but few of whom are provoked a prolonged and exciting discussion, in which Aaron Cleveland bore a conspicuous part, and was finally defeated, as he expected; for he presented it without the most renote idea of success, but merely to put himself and the other members on the record. Apart from his business, and his political ventures, he found time to prosecute the study of divinity, and abandoning the hat business, and leaving the politics of state and town in other hands, he removed to Vermont, and became a somewhat noted Congregational minister From thence he returned to his native State, locating at New Haven, where he died in 1815. Throughout his life he had openly opposed the institution of slavery, and was well known as the Anti-Slavery Agitator. His son, Charles Cleveland, was born in Norwich in 1772, and at an early age removed to Massachusetts and settled in Boston. There he became a noted city missionary, and was known throughout the State as

now living. Within a few months after graduating, he located in Baltimore and pursued the calling of a teacher. He appears to have inherited the desire to enter the ministry, and whilst teaching he pursued his studies in that direction. In 1828, four years after he removed to Wilmington, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister and at once took charge of a Church near the homestead in Windham, near Norwich. He left his affections behind him in Baltimore, and in the following year he returned to that city and married the daughter of Abner Neal of that place. He did not return to Windham but preached in sundry places in the South, and afterwards settled at Caldwell, New Jersey From thence he removed to Fayetteville in 1841, and in 1847 he was appointed Secretary of the Home Missionary Society. Six years afterwards he was installed at Holland Patent, where he died, October 1, 1853, in his fiftieth Father year.

Cleveland." A daughter, the youngest of thirteen children, was married to the celebrated Doctor Samuel H. Cox, and his son, the Rev Arthur Cleveland Coxe, is now Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Western New York. The reader will notice that the third generation has remodelled the name by the addition of a final e.

Mrs. Cleveland, mother of the Governor, died at the same place, July 19, 1882. They had nine children, four boys and five girls, as follows: Anna, (Mrs. Dr. Hastings) missionary to Ceylon; William N., an Alumnus of Hamilton, teacher in the New York City Blind Asylum, now a Presbyterian Minister at Forestport, N. Y., 1832; Mary, (Mrs. W E. Hoyt), 1833, William, the second son of Aaron Richard Cecil, 1835, Stephen Grover, Cleveland, and the grandfather of the (Governor of New York and Presidential presidential nominee was a silversmith, nominee), 1837; Margaret, (Mrs. N. B. and plied his vocation at Beacon Hill, Bacon), 1838, Lewis Frederick, 1841; adjoining Norwich. Like his father, he Susan, (Mrs. S. Yeomans), 1843; Rose, belonged to the Congregational Church, | (unmarried), 1846.

His Birth-Place.

ciple of the Blue Stocking faith, one of It was during the stay of the family in those strong, severe characters, which New Jersey that Governor Cleveland was would have perished at the stake for born, and the old, dingy, obscure town of tenets he would not forsake." The mother Caldwell is the place of his birth. The is also readily recalled as a positive force little, unpretentious two-and-a-half story in this pious household. The blood of a house, with a dirty white coating and clumsy shutters, still stands to mark the place where, in 1837, he first became an actor on the busy stage of life, and from whence and when he has matured and advanced until now he is the honored Governor of the Empire State. Less than a thousand souls live in this quiet hamlet, which but for the accidents of politics would probably never have been heard of outside of the records of Oneida county It was made famous in a day by the nomination of Governor Cleveland for the Presidency True it is that neither the place nor its humble people ever knew much of him, either as boy or man, for his life there can be spanned by the circle of a few months. It has held the family hearthstone for many years and that now makes it a place of note. The father died here, when he had said his long prayers and given good old doctrinal sermons to his slender flock only three weeks. His mother made it her home until her death, soon after her son was elected Governor of New York. The only maiden sister he has, still keeps up the humble cottage, which will now figure in song, story and picture as the early and only real home of the Democratic Presidential nominee.

Recollections.

It is not easy to find out much about Mr Cleveland's early life, although he spent most of his boyhood days within a dozen miles of this neat little city. Over at Clinton, a secluded village some ten miles across the flat country from here, he went to school some time before his parents moved up to "the Patent." But he is remembered there only as the son of a poor Presbyterian preacher, who wore shabby clothes and was always ready to fight, not only for himself, but for his younger companions, when he or they were nagged by the older or more fortunate boys. There are not many reminiscences of his father to be had there or here. He is remembered as a rigid dis

His re

good, Southern Maryland family runs in
her veins, and it was a good strain with
which to warm the frigid qualities of the
cold New England stock which was top
in the head of the household. Hence
the ten strong children who were born of
the union, were offspring equipped with the
qualities of body and mind for a stiff
battle with the world. Not brilliant, but
able, substantial people, were all of them.
Whether or not it was the Southern blood
that changed the temper of the children
I cannot say, but I believe that out of the
five boys none of them turned to the
ministry as their ancestors in the male
line had done for generations before.
One or two of the girls married preachers,
but most of them chose to look for
a better material chance in life than can
be found in the product of mite societies
and of donation gatherings.
collections of his native town must be
very meagre and the associations very
vague and shadowy, for he was but three
years of age when he left there. His
father was a Presbyterian preacher whose
salary was small and whose family was
large, and keenly feeling "the wants that
pinch the poor," and desiring a larger field
of labor, with an increased income, he
removed, by way of the Hudson river and
the Erie canal, to Fayetteville, which was
then a thriving straggling country town
about six miles from Pompey Hill, the
birth-place of ex-Governor Seymour. In
those days the means of transportation
were slow and limited, and the appearance
of this humble family as it slowly floated
to a new home, would not have indicated
to an observer the probability that one of
the urchins composing the party would
become the Mayor of an important city,
and the Governor of the greatest State.
The struggle for life is filled with muta-
tions, but by means of its friction the sparks
of latent genius fly upward and onward.

"Greatness and fame from no positions rise,
Act well thy part, there all the honor lies."

His Early Education.

At Fayetteville, Grover Cleveland, as he was called, commenced his education in an old-fashioned country school, where he very probably fell into the ways of the village boys, and exhibited the usual compound of good and evil that distinguish the average school-boy. That he availed himself of the poor opportunities then offered in a common school is evidenced by the fact that before he had reached fourteen years of age he had mastered all the studies that the schoolmaster taught, and feeling that a longer continuan e there was useless, he urgently entreated his father to send him to an academy not far from there. But the elder Cleveland thought that inasmuch as his son had mastered the curriculum of the school, he did not need an academic finishing which would consume time and money that might be more profitably invested. So the son's aspirations were nipped in the bud, and the academy project was abandoned.

Clerk in a Country Store.

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Cleveland, the Democratic candidate for
president, was to become far more widely
known than any of his preaching and
rhyme-writing ancestors. Stephen Grover,
for whom the boy was named was a Pres-
byterian minister, who preceded preacher
Cleveland as the occupant of the Presby-
terian pulpit at Caldwell. Perhaps the
best known Cleveland, after Grover, is his
cousin, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Episcopal
bishop of Western New York.
A grand
uncle, Charles, city missionary of Boston,
who was better known as "Father" Cleve-
land, lived to be one hundred years old,
lacking seventeen days.

Grover, as he was always called for sake of euphony, was the fifth of nine brothers and sisters. His brothers Frederic and Cecil were lost at sea in the burning steamship Missouri, October 22, 1872, off Abaco, the chief of the Bahamas. Frederic was the lessee of the Royal Victoria Hotel, at Nassau, New Providence.

The Rev C. T Barry, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church, lives in the old parsonage, in good old fashioned style, and The father s income was small, and he in unostentatious simplicity. The house sets intended that the son should support him- back from the road about a hundred feet sel: without delay So he was placed in and two noble ash trees stand like senticountry store to deal out the thousand nels before it. The grounds which contain and one articles contained in such an in- about two acres are well kept, and the sutution, for which he was to receive one whole place has an air of neatness and dollar per week for the first year, and if respectability The house itself is a twohe proved active and honest his wages to story and a-half, with a front porch and be doubled for the following year Here low windows. The front door opens into in this village center he dealt out molasses a spacious hall and the rooms and mackerel, soap and sugar, and ex-side of it are cosy and comfortable. The patiated on the cotton prints to the vil- ceilings are low The doors are very wide lage girls, proving himself a valuable as- and the whole place savors of antiquity. si-tant until the expiration of the second

year.

Origin.

The Church Record.

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In the old church baptismal record we find the record of the birth and baptizing of the Democratic nominee," and Mr. Barry pointed to an entry which read as follows: "Stephen Grover Cleveland, baptized July 1, 1837, born March 18, 1837

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Governor Cleveland is of Yankee origin and hails originally from "the land of steady habits." His father graduated at Yale in 1824, taught in Baltimore after the custoin of Jared Sparks and other college graduates of an early day, married a "During his six years' pastorate," said daughter of Abner Neal, of that city, after Mr Barry," Mr. Cleveland's father had a he had become a Presbyterian minister child baptized every year. When Grover and was pastor of the church at Caldwell, Cleveland was elected Governor of New N. J. March 18, 1837, the day when the York I wrote and told him that child was born, which was named Stephen I had these interesting facts, and he Grover Cleveland, and who as Grover sent me a very graceful reply Here is

the room in which Governor Cleveland was born, and Mr Barry pushed open the door and led the visitor into a room now used as a library The room was about fifteen feet square, with two windows and a low ceiling. An excellent steel engraving of James G. Blaine stood upon a table looking in the direction of the spot where his opponent was born.

Cleveland's Boyhood.

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Reminiscences of Him.

A person well acquainted with the Institution gives the following information as to Grover Cleveland's tutorship there. When asked at what time he taught in the Institution, he said: "About thirty years, | but there is not a single personal recollection of him in the institution. It seems that he and a brother were both teachers here about one year each and at the same The removal of the elder Cleveland to time." Have you looked the archives Clinton gave Grover the long-wished-for up?" "Yes and there I find the names of opportunity to attend a high school and he both the Clevelands. But there have been pursued his studies industriously and laid so many teachers in the institution that no the foundation of his future success so far record is left of these, but I suspect from as school knowledge and discipline sup- a Mr. Allen having been the secretary of ply the material, until the family moved this institution and that being the name of up on the Black River to what was then | Grover Cleveland's uncle, that they got known as the Holland Patent-a village their places through the influence of this of five or six hundred people-fifteen uncle. It was from the blind asylum that miles north of Utica. The elder Cleve- Grover went to Buffalo and settled there." land preached but three Sundays in this place, when he suddenly died. Grover first heard of his father's death while taught in New York was begun by Dr walking with his sister in the streets of John Russ, who came from Massachusetts Utica. But he went no farther than the academy, his father's death forcing him out into the world to do something for his family and himself. This event produced the usual break-up of the family, and we next hear of Grover Cleveland setting out for New York City to accept at a small salary the position of under teacher in an asylum for the blind, where at the time the since well-known Gus. Schell was executive officer.

A Teacher of the Blind.

In the city of New York stands an imposing structure of Sing Sing granite, fronting about two hundred feet, with buttresses and turrets approaching the Elizabethan style, in which has been expended more than two millions of dollars for the education of the blind.

New York took the first steps on this continent to educate the blind, and this society was organized more than fifty years ago. The building has been standing probably forty years, though the Mansard roof upon it has been added recently. When it was built it stood far outside of New York proper. The Ninth Avenue Elevated Railroad runs right before it and has a station at the corner on Thirty-fourth street.

Its History.

The institution at which Cleveland

and began to practice medicine in New York. Dr. Howe, of Boston, sent him in a ship to take supplies to the Greeks, who were fighting the Turks, as at that day the American people were not afraid to extend their help not only to South America but to Europe in the arms of tyranny After spending three years in Greece, where he established a hospital, Dr Russ returned to New York and began to educate blind boys. He refused to leave this great field for a blind institution which was afterward the trades here of making baskets, mats organized in Boston, and he introduced and carpets.

Dr. Russ had scarcely left the New York Blind Institution when young Cleveland came in to teach. It seems that Boston and New York started their blind institutions the same year, 1832, while Pennsylvania began the following year

Noted School Teachers.

Our Presidents present very peculiar contrasts in education and a very large percentage of our statesmen began at school teaching. Teaching school was in the first half of this century what writing for the newspapers is now-a method of

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