. The Grover Cleveland memorial, the eighteenth of March, in the year one thousand nine hundred and nine, Carnegie hall, Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, College of the city of New York. Thursday evening at eight-fifteen o'clock. had no thirst for riches. He was sincere and outspoken, without the craftof the time-server or the false pretense of the dema-gogue. He was kindly and affectionate—a good husbandand father and friend and neighbor. He remembered always with touching interestthe undistinguished companions and scenes of hisyouth. Great station raised no barriers about hisheart
. The Grover Cleveland memorial, the eighteenth of March, in the year one thousand nine hundred and nine, Carnegie hall, Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, College of the city of New York. Thursday evening at eight-fifteen o'clock. had no thirst for riches. He was sincere and outspoken, without the craftof the time-server or the false pretense of the dema-gogue. He was kindly and affectionate—a good husbandand father and friend and neighbor. He remembered always with touching interestthe undistinguished companions and scenes of hisyouth. Great station raised no barriers about hisheart. He was loyal to his friends and to his idealsand to every cause in which he had enlisted. For a quarter of a century after he was raised topower, in office and out of office he stood conspicu-ous before the world, a great figure of exalted citi-zenship, an evidence to all the young men of Amer-ica that in this free republic the greatest success,high station, power, fame, can be won with truth,honor, and self-respect. To honor him is to be lifted up in spirit, to re-member him is to be grateful for our countryshappy fortune and to be possessed of a cheerfulhope for the future of a people that can bring forthsuch sons. [52]. The Chairman then presented the Hon. GeorgeGray, Circuit Judge of the United States. JUDGE GRAY Ladies and Gentlemen: I deem it a privilege to participate in this demon-stration. It was a saying of a great Athenian phi-losopher that the character of the city is determinedby the character of the men it crowns, and we neednot to despair of a public whose people delight toacclaim the public life and character of such a manas Grover Cleveland. These meetings of to-daybear witness that the higher ideals of citizenship, ofpublic service and social duty, have not departedfrom among us. The things that best characterizedMr. Clevelands administrations are those whichmake for the honor of our national life, the eleva-tion of our citizenship to higher planes of thou
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