The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 13, 1884, Page 1

The Butler Weekly i = BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY AUC Y x UST 13, 1884. NO 37. trict Attorney ot E county | ’ {ye STANDARD BEARE | qualities neeessary to success as a lawyer. His first 4 Briet Sketch of Groyer Cleve- | a appearance laud and ‘Thos. A. Hen- politics on his own account was dricks. made in 1865, when he was nomi- —_———_—— deteated at the election. His next ‘ th : ce Honorable and Clean pu “a Bo | venture was in 1869, when he made public and Private—Good Serv— |» successful race tor sheriff, the du- ice to the Country im Critical Times. ———_——__—— ties of which office he discharged | with customary faithtulness. | HIS CAREER AS A REFORM MAYOR. When his term of office ended he turned his attention to the practice a ot his profession. He took an in- sproves the old assumption that | terest but no part in politics until sew men have no chance in politics. | 1881, when his neighbors, casting When the last Presidential election | about for a strong and available man gas held this man was a plain citi- | to nominate for Mayor, pitched up- zen of Buffalo, quite unknown either} on him. Buffalo was not a great 3s politician or @ professional man | city, but in the matter of municipal qutside of his county. t course of events brought him to the | have given points to others front and each advancegnent showed many times its number of people. that he had the ability and character |Tt was ring-ridden. Its to sdapt himse! e nents of his new surroundings. His | had been found tor many years who zareer, like that of Tilden, proves | had at once the ability and the bold- that men of strong sense who have | ness necessary to attack these abu- always maintained an intelligent and | ses. active interest in politics, may sately be entrusted with great responsibili- to this position by a majority of 5,- ties without preyious experience 1] 00, entered cheerfully and earnest- tolding office, if they are thoroughly }ly upon his work. He had not grounded in honesty. : sought the position. The obvious result of making poli- been an active political worker in tics and public office purely business | the accepted sense of that word. enterprises is that the public gets the | He knew nothing about the manipu- advantages of all the business expert: | Jation of caucuses and conventions. ence and common sense of the com- | He was connected with no halls or munity. Thus something of surprise | other organizations — for extorting expressed when such men_ spring | public plnnder from the officers up with apparent spontaneity and | chosen by the popular voice, and his sore a success in politics. They | political experience had been con— sre taken up without effort on their] fined to a single term in the com— own part, Many times they are] paratively unimportant office of forced to the front by events Over | Sheriff of the county eleven years which they have slight control. Pub- | before. he or party exigencies, the oppor- umty to make a striking record, the | had faltered or failed. And gamfestation of a strong reserve | w; thie power enables them to seize use the occasion for their own and | day he became Mayor of Buffalo in the public benefit. This is the se- ret of Grover Cleveland’s rapid} Efe did not enter upon its duties to rise over the heads of men grown | register the edicts of a party caucus ray in party and public service. or to obey the orders of party bos- iis ORIGIN AND EARLY TRAINING. |ses, He looked upon the office of His family was of New England { Mayor as the business agency of the GROVER CLEVELAND. + Cleveland’s political career Grove what s the secret of success ? origin, from the neighborhood of} people ot his city. He attacked } Haddam, Connecticut, and for many corrupt combinations in a manner generations haye not failed, after the | which soon convinced the trading "i old-tme New England style, to} members of a City Council that he produce a Congregational minister. understood each item of a_ bill and The Governor's father was a grad-| that he had determined to reject all uate from Yale College in 1814, Te- | corrupt or unnecessary expenditure moving soon after to Baltimore, | and administer the city business as where he married and entered into | taithtully as if it were his own the Preshyterian ministry. He re-| used the veto power with moved soon after to Caldwell, Essex | persistence. Schemes county, New Jersey, where he la special privileges or ma bored for seyeral years. Here the | extravagant or sentimental apy son, Grover Cleveland, ‘ March 18, 1837. With the peregrinating qua ot his class, the minister, in the dis- ng unwise, emor was about three years old. | something more than mere playspel with undue wealth, though he was | abroad. common to the times and his pro- fession. _ Hence the boy’s early opportuni— ties tor securing an education were not of the best. He was anxious to secure the advantages of an academ- ical training, but the narrow cir- cumstances of his famil this. He accordingly e¢ country store, where he discharged the various and ardui duties incident to his position to t ERNOR. and the worth of their man that Mr. Cleveland was nominated tor Gov. ntered a| competitors. faithtully | local as it had been, he | the State. academy. his tather’s death torcing | candidate im out into the world to do some- State in the thing for his family and himselt, Cleveland into Union, carried here | he soon showed that he had all the }a special study of them the easy aad had n r be upor to make conducted private establishments the anxiety to hold places would be rn x and the cause of civil service materially aided. The expenditure of money to ia- nonchalant do to Gubernato gmatism so cc nmon lack- | I messages was Se a orm j refc | ing. But when he came to action he | | nated for District Attorney, but was | made no serious misstep. He watgh- | fluence the action of the people at ed the course of the legisiature close- | the polls or to secure legislation 1s ly and pruned its work mercilessly. | calculated to excite t eravest tHe exercised the veto power with ajcern. When this prenicious apency wise discretion and was especially | is successfully employed a represen- intelligent and watchful in all legis- | tative form of government becomes 2 lation relating to municipal affairs. | sham, and leas passed under con- its Before the session was half over he baleful influence cease to protect, had secured the ill-will of the New] but are made the means by which York city managers in his own party the rights ot the people are sacri-| but had won in return the support of | ficed and the public treasury despo:!- the independent and retorm element, led. It is useless and foonsh to shut regardless of political opinion. Ev—| our eyes to the fact that this evil ex- ery detail of government has been jists among us, and the party which closely studied and watched. His | leads in an honest effort to return to But a rapid | corruption and combinations it could | formly creditable, with | consulted the efficiency of the public revenues | of insignificant politicians. It to all the require- | were stolen or wasted and no Mayor delt openly a But Grover Cleveland, elevated | an unusual degree. He had not | convicts than any of his recent pre-| ef those who prpfit by political oc- But he succeeded where other men | it) and | was simply due to the fact that the | name he became also Mayor in fact. | He} intelligent conferring { propri- | was born, j ations, or tor unnecessarily increas- a ing offices were relentlessly slaugh- | lities } tered. The people of Buffalo, ac- customed to the waste and profligacy charge of his duties, removed toj incident to municipal government, Fayetteville, Oneida county, New | discovered that they had at last found York, when his son, the future Gov- | a man who looked upon office as 1 Like most country ministers in that] or an opportunity to reward his lay, the tather was not burdened | triends, and they noised his fame able to indulge in the large famil¥ | ~oyu~aTION AND ELECTION AS GOW They made such a showing and so successfully convinced the demo- | crats of the State of their earnestness y forbade |erner over well-known and active His reputation, merely was still tound ‘ous | quite large enough to spread over The campaign was re—- for Governor in any | Mr. the Governorship- nominations haye been quite uni-| better and purer methods will re- because he has | ceive theconfidence of our citizens ; and secure their support. It is wil- service, not the whims or demands | ful blindness not to see that the peo- He has |ple care but little tor party obliga- | nd above board. tions, when they are invoked to In the matter ot pardons his poli- | countenance and sustain traudulent cy of publishing a detailed statement | and corrupt. practices. And it 1s of his reasons made the impression | well for our country and for the pur- that he was exercising this power in | ification of politics that the people, 1 But on com-|at times fully roused to danger, parison with the records of previous | remind their leaders that party meth- Governors for the same periods :t | ods should be something more than was found that he had released fewer | a means used to answer the purpose decessors. In his prompt approval of the bills for retorming and reorganizing the city sefyice in New York he has shown his comprehension of the needs of municipal government and made himselt effectively the leader of the movement. The moral effect cupatjon. 4 A LAWYER AND A MAN. Mr} Cleveland’s rank at the bar 1s a high one. He 1s careful and me- thodical as a business man, which, united to his faculty of going to the bottom of all questions, gives him the principal elements essential to | his prompt action on the -one bill | successin his profession He pre- taking trom the despotic and trading | sents his case well and closely, | Board of Alderman the confirming | whether the argument is made be- ad throwing the ly upon the Mayor en- retorm element in the power bil e abled responsi- | fore a court or a jury. but does not {indulge in any exhibition pyro- technics. His vocabulary ic ample j but not overwhelming or exhaustive, ot the Legislature to continue their work with the assurance that everv neces- | as is so often the case with protes- sary and reasonable aid would be |sionai legaltaikers. He is a hard given them by the Executive. | worker, anda large, reliable and | | commanding practice is his reward. man, OPINIONS ON PUBLIC QUESTIONS. Because Governor Cleveland took no active part im politics until recent- | ly the conclusion must not be jumped Mr. Clevelund is a large somewhat above the medium h with a strong though not a { at that he came into effice a mere jlarly striking face. He has dark, tyro.- He was little accustomed to | penetrating eyes and heavy eyebrows His movements are deliberate and dignified, but devoid ot the heavi- ness which sometimes accompanies making speeches and writing letters on public questions, but when he began it was with some purpose. fees : App! ition of the business side of | ™€? ot his type. He isnot a rich office and politics has been a marked | ™4n, in spite ot his frugal bachelor = - . g o p. ~} ree “org feature of his utterances. In his _in- habits. He does much tree legal didate is due to his strong conserv- atism, his unsullied character, his sympathy with straighttorward, bus- iness methods in politics, his excep- tional standing with the independent, reform element the country over and in his ability to inspire people with the beliet that he may be trusted to payers have entrusted to us are di- verted to other purposes, or when by design or neglect we allow a greater sum to be applied to any mu- nicipal purpose than is necessary, we have, to that extent, violated our duty. ‘here surely is no difference in his duties and obligations whether | his resikence in Shel | byterian church in Indianapolis, of | taith the boy the inte 10r oO nd took u ) P | and opene 1 Ofhee, taking at once : county near | x leading place at the bar, forming the present site of the county seat f rel ea " preser -| a partnership with Oscar B. Hord oyville, as handsome and pro- | aft 2 r er ; > , 4 F afterward the Attorney-General o ductive a locality asthere is in the/ the State Ca dene State of Indiana. Here John Hen- The Laci : dricks built him «a substantial brick D ssi A, suena Of 1003-3) Was house, which is still standing, in}, bata ’ and | Jesse dD. Bright which his tamily was reared, amid este aa een expelled fr Di. SEAS : > : in th ited State t : | the best influences that could be en- Turpi = iste wee ts ae ’ ahs S- ihe ‘ | 1e was elected to f nut 18 joved 1 »se pioneer days. In- ee ee dia is had just been laid out and Ss ae ee d term, while Mr. = eched othe future (capital of | PSRREATT as unanimously chosen : 4 eiges ne fu . ; sia the State, and Mr. Hendrick’s house | joo, ep Shi poren years. He was one ofthe principal centres of | 41, the en oe ve - atone meant > 5th of March, && anc educated and Christian refinement in the central part of Indiana. the father and founder ot the served until 186g—tour years as the colleague of Senator Lane and_ for two yeats with Senator Morton. With Mr. Hendrick’s Senatorial ser- vices and record the country is fa- miliar. He became in great meas- He was Pres- in that reared the good Scotch type, and Thomas was and nurtured. ure the leade ' EDUCATION AND POLITICAL TRAIN~ | . “ . : : hot the small Demo- oa cratic minorityin that body. While The lad attended the village school fA ene E Cre reen eee again nominated him for governor, until of sufficient age to enter the college at South fanover, near} Madison, graduating trom which he began the study ot law with Judge Major, the leading member ot the bar ot Central Indiana, then andstill residing in Shelbyville. The final period of his study was assed in |_ suas : the effice of his uncle, pa ase Thom- | — ents — competence son, of Chambersburg, Penn., and eee acquired Dy his shrewdness he eas thenladminedto the ‘bar at|~°r Poe . Shelbyville. His success was not at io 1872 the State was again rent ull rapid, but his habits ot close at- with a political contest. The Lib- tention to and study of histcases, his aah pir fic ‘S oe the correct habits, his pleasant manners, Peeve : betehnady = Republicans gave all conspired to make him a favorite | '° empcracy at ADP RISe. Cnr the Republicans nominating Con- rad Baker. Afteran exciting cam- | paign Baker was elected by about Soo majority, and Seastor Hendricks again went to his law office. His firm was one of two or three leading ones in the city, and Mr. Hendricks and inthe end he gained a_ high Rey aah paces Rad ake oe a ieea inline irotession andea\ lucra® State Convention nommated Mr | ple s . 4 : Hendricks for Governor. His Re- tive one. He was an impressive public speaker, having early given himself much to the arts of Oratory, and this fact at once directed toward publican opponent was Gen. Thos. M. Browne. As the result of an- other remarkably close election, Mr. endric was chosen Gove him the choice of the people for | Hend icks v ee chosen Governor by a eeie like | a plurality of 1,200 votes, while all I Aes hve years’ practice in 1848 the other officers of the State, ex e see . id 9 | ce . erintende: om «ie young Hendricks was elected to the cept the Superintendent of Public 7 = , Instruction, were Repubhcans. In Legislature, when not 25 years Of cimext month Grants a tak age. He was not parucularly well ona “i y pong aie ae & rele _ le pl ed with that service, and de-| pci y fk ae 1H sgt Y- ‘ € —_ clined a re-election in 1850. In the | 2, a ae a nd Fat qoreeaeed wi meantime a constitutional conven- ares sae 5 e { peti oe he a tion had been called, and though so | Gig, PRED OCE OR Baro . young, the votes ot the Senatorial | | CAREER SINCE THE GREAT FRAMD. district in which he lived elected him a member, he being one among the younger members of that body, with Schuyler Coltax and William Ss. Holman. Mr. Henaricks took a prominent part in the deliberations of that convention, as an examina- tion of the debates show, and so ad-| \ The circumstances of the nomina | tion of Gov. Hendricks on the ticket | with Gov. Tilden by the St. Louis | Convention are tresh in’ the public | mind. He was a candidate for the ! Presidency, as he aiso was in 1568 at the New York Tammany Hall Con- Idress as Mayor ot Buffalo, work for poor clients and has.a way| ded to his reputation, that at the | vention, but there he was antagon- : of assisting them which, though | election in August, 1851, ‘ie was | zed py a part of his own state dele- We hold the mony of the people | ost creditable to his conscience, | elected to a seat in Congress from | gation. Ot couse, the inauguration in our hands to be used for their pur- does not put money 1 his purse. | the central district of the State, then | of Hayes and Wheeler settled the poses and to further their interests He is tlso a liberal benefactor of all| stretching from Brown county on future for Mr. He ndricks, and he |as members of the municipality, and the charities ot Buffalo, ecity pecul-} the south to Tipton on the north, | procceeded quietly with bis law bus- it 1s quite apparent that when ar iarly active In this _— jand trom Marion on the east to | iness. Gov. Baker having: become part ot the tunds which the t Mr. Cleveland’s strength as a can- | Hendncks on the west. His oppo- | 4 member of the firm, which was of Hancock, | Baker, Hord & Hendricks. nent was Col. Rush, whom he defeated by nearly 4,000 | votes. By the terms of the new state constitution an election was held the next year, in 1852, and again he was elected from a new dis- trict, his opponent being Mr. Brad- ley, an able and brilliant Whig, be- Mr. Hendricks was again a candi- date tor the Pesidential nomination in Cincinnati, in 1880, and this time had the ardent and enthusiastic sup- port ot his entire State delegation. But his nomination was impossible. The result was the nomination of Hancock and, with the iaea_of pla- do nothing for purely partisan pur- poses. Few men unite in them- selves so many considerations of fit- ness and expediency. If elected he may be trusted to expose jobs, gturn out and keep out thieves and give the country a manly, conservative ad- ministration of his own. THOMAS A. HENDRICKS. a persen 1s entrusted with the money of one manor of many, and yet it sometimes appears as though the officeholder assumes that a different rule of fidelity prevails between him andthe tax payer than that which should regulate his conduct when, as an individual, he holds the money of his neighbors. It seems to me that a successful and faithtul minis- tration of the government of our city | may be accomplished by constantly | bearing in mind that we are the trustees and agents of our tellow—} A Western Man Who Has Made Him- self a Power :n Politics. Thomas Andrews Hendricks was born on a farm near Zanesville, to America betore the and bearing an spicuous part in that str t us elaborated in letter accept- g the nommation for Governor: subordinates in public place should uggle. Wher Revolution | nate honorable and con-} tween whom and Mr. Hendricks in | that campaign there was a joint dis- cussion, the first of that sort of cam- paigning in Indiana. On the 4th of March, 1855, Mr. Hendricks returned to his law office at Shelbyville, and in August of that year, while sitting on the porch of his home in the evening, a messen- ger stepped up and handed him an Official letter, autograph of President Pierce, making him the tender of the | offce of Commissioner of the Gen- eral Land Office. Mr. Hendricks was disposed to decline, but upon cating Indiana, William H. English. Mr. Hendricks made many speeches and took an active part inthe cam- paign, but in spite of this activity the State was lost by the aid of Dorsey's “soap.’? After the election of Gar- field, Mr. Hendricks was interview- ed, and in answer to the question whether he was out of pelitics an- swered that he should never be out of politics until he was in his grave. The Democratic party had been too kind to him to permit him to deaten his ears to its voice whenever it de- j " = iti holding their funds in sacred | » , sa i i , markable even for New York, with cmzens, Z i ‘ _ al 5 S as — of He employs = e fe Stee aad kaleidoscopic trust to be expended for their bene- | Muskingum county, Ohio, Sept. 7, | consultation with his ae BCCeR — ST ae Sie p acaptne. "som fal a ebanpestin politics Many of the fit, that we should at all times be|17S19. His father was John Hen- —— = in eae sae er | coc — See . Upo — {ck s eis Y ; : eo ee ; E on. Mr. Hendricks held | He s yb . i S Stz i ared to render an honest ac— <s, a native of Western Pennsyl- | 2 ashin . 1 Fates toa large and more important Aaa — a. Nae Paap | ae them tcuching the manner ae the first settlers of the | this office until 1859, when he re- |few words. Hewss married sess ar i s ranged themselves On the side OF) —. = coe sh a= i f res ee ° i ‘ a aCe — long — Cleveland's candidacy. The inde- | of its expendsture and that the af- | Ligonier Valiey, in Westmoreland | signed and a saan eit gama perigee = e ae gg Aa aunty eo Aa So ae ” | fairs of the city should be conducted | county, and an active participant in | of his profession in Shelbyville. 1845, to Mis za C. Morgan, | by : nted itselt. It was duly im ppcudene Gauss Le aaa ee | ae far as possible upon the same | ublic Eas serving in the State} TAKING HIS PLACE AMONG LEADERS. | whom he had one son, born in 1345, ve i i Ss rt: factions in his own; #5 °° © = es To i —— Ss i j Geiss pais } - “ay h ae and the soundaen oF oe tone denon Eee aoe ae | principle as a good business man | Legislature and in other positions of But he wa not allowed to seams | ee mee fae es — jor Meri ee cera | mmpeeiit ct ce eniet eel pete (ne aed cxrviee [tant “The mother was Jane Thom-| quiet. | His party was prepares Ji | on dits death greatly affected the F Coulocenory 3 s Leos 3 | ee = BS haeas esc: r and. | the great contest of 1560, 4 Mr. | 2 leath greatly atftecte e Week cee ae Fe hee than the | two thousand, the largest ever given) His views 0a civil gah reform re of age eae pel. orth eee ee ciatouily: Tome: | imiRee Hie. one arent cone : Se - were! >» emigi % apres . i * andonithe dangers ‘ob bribery Wer eae Je i ie d by the Democratic Convention | Presbytericzn faith, and was a mem- ber of that communion until the or-- ganization of St. Paul’s Episcopal urch in Indianapolis in the year ndidate for Governor, his op- being the late Col. Henry S. | ho had tor his lieutenant Ol- | ch as ca a | ponent » a = ' s the laj idin c Se f ‘Pis first venture was a teacher in _a| Thus the plain, plodding citzen of é 5 age = 1 his | Lane w ‘Pind asylum mn New York city. He | Bufigio. whose capacorees nedber | Te — —. val grape $0 pose a “7 “se a pos seat ver P. Morton, who had tour years 1862. He became a member ot that continued i 5 ispec t 2 use they may. father removed to Indiana, settling | ce ’ sescees J ee - J ‘fontinued in this work two years, | Serers r suspected = So ee : syiously made a brilliant but un- | parish and was elected Semor Ward- P SES sy.) Ee: agit i : plis 2 at Madi on the Ohio river. This | previously mac Ft ga ; “fvhen he turned his face to the west, de the limits of his community, ed to mplished partisan at } Jadison, o um Ss 4H ia el ceeeeeta nite ieee ‘Ashbel |en. He has never belonged to” but Etmth the intention of locating at| became one of the leading men ot} The people have a right to | was oe aang ape Gs 1 P. Willard. The ‘Vemocratic party one secret society, the Oddtellows, AUleveland, Ohio. On his wav he | the country in less than a year, alten hpett diececel Renin aoe seni ees ._|was split mto the Douglas and being a charter member of Mistopped to see 4 Hagia Set lhe had emerged trom his hiding- money be. or ot the new state, the first Repre- ease oatees fesce D. | Wellsville Lodze. but for a ae see an uncle at Buffalo. be re om oh Ss) render the | sentative in Congress, and afterward | Breckinridge factions. 2 Bi te inpatients: apne Ht. 5 which, as it turned out, became the | f : a eS bene fecessor ot more famous ; Bright. the leader of the latter, ¢vir | tin aaiieransce tea 2 “ ini carried out and that the the p a hic &* 7 sts work After the elect ‘mit of his western travels. He re- aes = = a =p sand tenure of such | nephew in ibe Un es Senate. | dently feeling the loss of his “‘grip”’ |p at swork. After the lect Sora there and entered upon the the simple ; pe gor ones ea ee John Hendricks held a minor office | On the party. while the Republicans | in 1576 Mr. Hendricks made an ‘i dy of the law, He began at the! ——— ated and adhered = = ses ie under the government as Surveyor were in the flush of hopeful vigor. | tensiye tour of Europe, rneeting with : oe réund of the legal ladder—an (er fits a5 gies ae sass al F Seats ¢ 3 2 gaa ok, Eee result was the triumphant elec- | cordial receptions everywhere and . ice boy. He worked hard, how- - It was evid that he 2 Pe atod Ee Pare character | tion of Lane and Morton. which | making the acquaintance of many of er, and when admitted tor the bar | sc-ireesy sground. The ; ee a Jae Pe eat ee eee ear= father of Tho sent Mr. Hendricks back to his law lost distinguished Eur 29 = Progress was rapid that in 363 he became assistant to the Dis- so ive and as were large and exte interests ot the State of New York he pd to Go work as those employed in prudent—: as conciut ied to move further i nto | books. cians. He removed to Indianapolis | polit 1