Cleveland, past and present; its representative men: . ?ix •V ^I .^« ^ yf ^. f. -? i-. >\ ^ V >^ X X ^s-JV^ ITS REFRESENTATIFE MEN. 431 conduct has been his impartiality, his exemption from favoritismand partizanship, when in conflict with the public interests, andespecially his well-known hostility to cliques and rings, suchas resort to a city government as a rich placer, where they may workto enrich themselves at the expense of the people. The rigid dis-charge of duty which he has required of the police under his charge,and the avoidance, at the same time, of everything like oppression


Cleveland, past and present; its representative men: . ?ix •V ^I .^« ^ yf ^. f. -? i-. >\ ^ V >^ X X ^s-JV^ ITS REFRESENTATIFE MEN. 431 conduct has been his impartiality, his exemption from favoritismand partizanship, when in conflict with the public interests, andespecially his well-known hostility to cliques and rings, suchas resort to a city government as a rich placer, where they may workto enrich themselves at the expense of the people. The rigid dis-charge of duty which he has required of the police under his charge,and the avoidance, at the same time, of everything like oppression,or the exercise of undue severity in office, have received the publicapprobation. One of the most prominent institutions of Cleveland will be theHouse of Correction, now in progress of construction, and which ishumanely intended to reform and reclaim, as well as to punish, thevicious and the criminal. To Mr. Buhrer much credit will beawarded for the active and leading part he has taken in the establish-ment of such an institution. At the expiration of his t


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