The Hîimminçr Bird. 



GROVER CLEVELAND, 



The elected President of the United States. 



Mr. Stephen Grovcr Cleveland, who will take office in 

 March, 1893, for four years, as the twenty-fourth President of 

 the United States, was President from 1884 to 1888. He 

 was born at Coldwell, New Jersey, March 18, 1837, ^^^ father 

 being a Presbyterian minister. Before he began to study 

 law at Buffalo in 1855, he had been a clerk in a village store, 

 and a book-keeper and assistant-teacher in a Blind Institution. 

 He was called to the Bar in 1859, was elected Sheriff of Erie 

 county from 1870 to 1873, and in 1881 was elected Mayor of 

 Buffalo. In this post he introduced various reforms in the 

 administration of city affairs, which led to his election in the 

 following year as Governor of the State of New York. He 

 was nominated for the Presidencv at the National Democratic 

 Convention at Chicago, in 1884, and in the following 

 November defeated Mr. Blaine, and was elected. Being 

 defeated at the 1889 election, he resumed the practice of the 

 law in New York City. 



The main reasons a-iven for the Dem.ocratic success are 

 dissatisfaction with the McKinley tariff, and opposition to the 

 Force Bill, combined with a continuance of the desertion of 

 the Republicans in the Western States to the People's party. 



We have every reason to believe that one of the first 

 acts of the Democratic Government w^ill be the repeal of the 

 McKinley tariff, which will be replaced by a new legislation, 

 more adequate to modern times. 



Now is the time when United States ought to take the 

 lead of Nations, and p-ive a fair trial to Free Trade in its 

 entirety. 



By so doing, I am convinced that a new era of pros- 

 perity and greatness (impossible to estimate) w^ould begin 

 for the United States, and give to that country a prominent 

 place among the Nations of the W^orld. 



