. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. red 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 suresuccess from adverse circumstances. He was essentially a child of the people, around whomthe gaudy goddess of aristocracy had not wrapped the pur-ple of position to warn the masses from contact with herid
. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. red 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 suresuccess from adverse circumstances. He was essentially a child of the people, around whomthe gaudy goddess of aristocracy had not wrapped the pur-ple of position to warn the masses from contact with heridol. Handicapped with the dead weight of poverty, hiswas one of the noble souls born for success; one of thosegallant soldiers of fortune, who expect no favors and askno aid in their contest with the world. The odds wereagainst him, but this served only as a stimulus to renewedexertion, and rendered sweeter the fruits of each successivevictory. He was of the metal from which is forged the heroes, wlio from Low birth and iron fortune,Twin jailors of the daring heart, GROVER CLEVELAND. 37. 38 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF wring victory at the swords point of energy and perse-verance. Determination characterized him as a child and ayouth; that determination that afterwards enabled him toconfront and strangle fraud and corruption in the highplaces of his native State, and that, in the life struggle, haverewarded his patient toil with a full measure of success. What intuition gives to its favored darlings he acquiredby force of mind and native industry, and while so-calledgenius and talent lay in inglorious dalliance with indolenceand guilt, his noble mind scorned the luring syrens and everstruggled upward to its ideal elevation. At Fayetteville young Cleveland remained until he wasfourteen years old, by which time his bright mind, aided byuntiring industry, had mastered all that the village schoolcould teach, and with an unquenchable thirst for knowledgehe clamored for a course at som
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