Mr. Grover Cleveland, who had held the Presidency of the
United States from 1885 to 1889, and again from 1893 to 1897, died at Princeton, New Jersey, on Wednesday, in his seventy- second year. Mr. Cleveland, who was the son of a poor Presbyterian minister in New Jersey, owed his rise to his industry and strength of character. Called to the Bar at an early age, he settled in Buffalo, and, nominated for the mayoralty as reform candidate in 1881, made his mark so decisively that he was elected Governor of New York in 1882, and defeated Mr. Blaine in the Presidential contest in 1884. In both his terms of office he came into collision with England,— over the Canadian fishery question and the Sackville incident in the first, and over the Venezuelan difficulty in the second. Mr. Cleveland earned the gratitude of his countrymen by his independence in domestic affairs. Two of his sayings sum up his political philosophy with admirable point : "Public office is a public trust," and "The people should support the Government, not the Government the people."
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