The President and his Cabinet, indicating the progress of the government of the United States under the administration of Grover Cleveland

Charles Benjamin Norton

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) ", ._-^_-_i.TSkN' ^ \V^ CHAPTER II. CLEVELANDGROVER AS MAYOR. REFORM was the watchword which elected Mr. Cleveland of the of Buffalo. This electionmayor city was in itself an almost demon-unparalleled triumph, had in histhe confidence which thestrating people and his fitness to out thespecial carryintegrity, in and itneeded reforms the city government, was tosettled the issue of the that ithour, possible secure a election that kind ofby popular integrity and that would administer the people'ssagacity was nec-affairs with the and discretion thathonesty histoessary good Upon inaugurationgovernment. as he took occasion to reiteratemayor, immediately the of action which he had affirmed in hisprinciples the nomination. So soon as hespeech accepting was he devoted his time to a carefulelected, study of the of the and hedepartments city government, made it that in all of these and in all sub-clear, too, ordinate he was determined that thefirmlypositions should behe had laid down for himselfprinciples mes-others. In hisimplicitly byobeyed inaugural to the of oncommon council Buffalo,sage January he set forth these in the2, 1882, principles following and direct :vigorous language 29 CABINET.PRESIDENT AND HISTHE jo THE CITY OFTHE COMMON COUNCIL OFTo THE HONORABLE BUFFALO.

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• United States
• Cleveland
• Statesman

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C. B. NORTON,
"EDITOR OF CIVIL SERVICE CHRONICLE."
Illustrated with Portraits and Views.U0NAR?
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,'THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS
CABINET
THEINDICATING PROGRESS OF THE GOV-
ERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
UNDER THE ADMINISTRA-
TION OF
GROVER CLEVELAND
BY
C. B. NORTON
Editor the Civil Service Chronicleof
1'A PUBLIC OFFICE IS A PUBLIC TRUST
ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS AND VIEWS
BOSTON
CUPPLES AND PUBLISHERSKURD,
1888COPYRIGHT, 1888,
BY C. B. NORTON.
All Reserved.RightsDedicated to
aProsper Bender, M.<D., warm and con-friend
siderate adviser, by
C. B. NORTON.CONTENTS.
x PAGE
INTRODUCTION -9
CHAPTER I. CLEVELAND'S EARLY DAYS . .17
ASCHAP. II. CLEVELAND MAYOR . . 29
CHAP. III. AS GOVERNOR , . 39
CHAP. IV. CLEVELAND AS PRESIDENT . . 55
CHAP. V. THE STATE DEPARTMENT . .103
THECHAP. VI. TREASURY . 117
CHAP. VII. THE WAR DEPARTMENT .. 139
CHAP. VIII. THE NAVY . . 153
CHAP. IX. THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT . 161
CHAP. X. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR .
171
CHAP. XI. OF DEPART-JUSTICE
MENT OF AGRICULTURE
MENT OF LABOR GOVERNMENT
PRINTING OFFICE U. S. CIVIL
SERVICE COMMISSION , .191
CHAP. XII. ALLEN G. THURMAN . . . 211
CHAP. XIII. OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS . . . 229