Identifier: authorizedpictor00trip (find matches)
Title: The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Triplett, Frank
Subjects: Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Hendricks, Thomas Andrews, 1819-1885. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York and St. Louis, N. D. Thompson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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osy child, des-tined to be the next President of the United States, slakehis thirst, and no figure was a more familiar one than thatof this child of the people. Full of life and animal spirits,his hearty romps and childish pranks have often caused theadmiration of the honest burghers of Fayetteville, who couldnot but sympathize with the handsome, noble spirited boy. If the brilliancy of genius cast a halo about the boy, thecitizens of the village were too dull to note it, but it was amatter of remark to all, that he was the soul of honestyand fairness. Said an old citizen of the town, when toldof his career as Mayor of Buffalo and Governor of NewYork: ^I never knowed as hed ever raise to anything great—for you cant tell nothin about boys—but I always didknow that Grove Cleveland couldnt do a mean trick, andthat he was jest as honest as the day is long. A homely but noble tribute from one of the sturdy yeo-manry and one most truly deserved. The honorable train- GROVER CLE\^LAND. 35
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36 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF ing of that stern old Presbyterian sire had fixed in themind of the child, the principles of honor and honesty asfirmly and immutably as the rock-ribbed hills. He mightnever have developed the brilliancy of some of our states-men, nor might he have made so conspicuous a figure in thearena of politics, but he could do better, he could show us anoble example of Roman honesty and Spartan simplicity andhonor. The childhood of young Cleveland, like that of themajority of American born and bred citizens, was not lappedin soft luxury, nor pampered full with pride. It knewthe usual measure of boyish joys and boyish sorrows; ithad its successes and its reverses; it scored its victories andits defeats. Unlike his opponent, whose father, says oneof his biographers, prided himself upon being a gentlemanof elegant leisure, Grover Cleveland had no golden bulwarkto stand between him and the storms of adversity, and nounlimited purse of Fortunatus with which to purchase

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