PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3291, 2 December 1892, Page 3

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.

Mr. Grover Cleveland, President elect of the United States, never took aoy interest in national politics until he was elected president, and bis administration waa too " clean" to suit the political hacks ' of bis party, to wbose discontent in 1888 'bis defeat at the polls was unquestionably due. Mr. Cleveland is a native of the State of New Jersey, but has always lived in the Empire State of New York. He waß born in 1837, and is the son of a clergyman— a profession which seems to 1 have been united to his ancestors, or, as a Yankee admirer quaintly expresses it, ." the ministerial habit became fastened 'on the Cleveland family," who were always turning np as ministers of some kind, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, or Oonerecationalists. His family were poor, ana at the age of fourteen the fature president wns put behind a grocer s counter at the lordly wage of £10 ft year. When bis father died in 1853, the boys had to look further afieia. Young Grover soon tirea of the grocery and starred west, but stopped with an uncle at BuflaJo, who gave him some literary work. Then he obtained a footing in a lav? office, and in 1859 ma admitted to practice, and ia 2868 obtained an bumble appointment. Somewhat against b\B will he wae nominated for the office of Mayor of Buffalo in 1881, ana eleotea. Having made a markea success ac Mayor of Buffalo and aa Eeform Governor of the State of New York' in 1884, the Democratic Convention at Chicago nominated him as their candidate for the presiaency, ana in the following November he defeated his opponent, Mr. Jameß G. Blame, at the noil Presiaent Clevelana's ioreign pohoy Wless markea by bluster than is, usual with American presiaents. But on the ' whole his management of foreign affairs was aignifiea ana patriotic, an 3bw administration was respected abroad. Although he did not cater to the spreadeagle tenaencies of his countrymen as Preßident Harrison and Secretary Blame have done, he inaugurated a movement which has raisea America considerably in foreign estimation. In 1888, when Mr. Whitney, his Secretary of the Navy, was appointea, United States did not possess a single war vessel which couU have kept the seas for a week, and they were entirely dependent upon English manufacturers for cun forcings, armour and secondary batteries. At the close of his administration the register oarriea the names of five war vessels, first-class not only m name. tout in reality, ana the founaation was laid of what haß since become a teatty fotmidable navy. But it was in the matter of Civil service ana tariff retorm that Mr. Clevelana gainea hiß chief olaim to the suffrages of his fellow citizens. When he enterea the White House he founa that at least ninety per cent of the ■civil servants haa receivea their appointments as a rewara for political services, ana he set to work to do •way as far as possible with' what be called "offensive partisanship" in the Government offices. In this attempt he was remarkably successful, and he gained the approbation of all gooa citizens, although at the expense of incurring the hostility of the "heelers" ana other bangers-on of the political "machines. Vetoes of obnoxious measures, in which be imaginea he found a "job" Unking, were frequent, and coached in plainBroken language; and these two reforms have maae bim many fnenas among the voters at large, who have no axes to grind in politics. In the recent election, however, tariff reform has been the prinoipal question. In his first message to Congress in 1885 President Cleveland insisted on a revision of the tariff. The -BorplQß was a menaoe to the welfare and fioanoial stability of the country, and he declared for a reduction of the uneeessary and exorbitant taxes which bad prodaoed it. la' 1887 he devoted his annual message a^ost altogether to the revenue system of the country. This system had been devised and adopted to meet toe exigencies of the civil war, and dow that that danger had long since aißappeared, he pointed out that the excessive taxation led to unlimited corruption ana extravag. ance He aavooatea a tariff wbioh would be sufficient to meet the expenses ot the Government only, and this is really the basis of the free-traae for which President Clevelana contenas. Of course, protection lor the sake of buiiaing up nascent industries finas no part in his scheme.— From Melbourne Age.

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