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March 11.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
VICE PRESIDENT HENDRICKS AND
THE CABINET.
Ten and Pencil Sketches of the New Ad*
ministration—The Men Who Are to
Guide the Ship of State Tuder the
New Democratic Regime.
GROVER CLEVELAND, PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
In 1870, Mr. Cleveland was chosen sheriff
of Erie county, N. Y., and served a single
term. In 1881 he was elected mayor of the
city of Buffalo, in the same state, and on No
vember of the following year he was elected
governor of the state of New York by the
largest majority ever given to any candidate
for the same office in any state of the Union,
and on November 4 was elected president.
Such is tlie brief but remarkably brilliant
political career of President Cleveland. He
is descended from a New England family
noted for its religious zeal. His great grand
father was a Congregational minister of Nor
wich Conn. His. father, Richard Cleveland,
was a Presbyterian. He married a Miss
Neal, of Baltimore, and soon after settled as
" pastor of a little church in the town
of Essex, N. J.', where Grover was
born March 18, 1887, Receiving a
common school education and a brief
course of study at an academy, young
Grover determined at the age of eighteen to
go west and seek his fortune, so he started
for Cleveland, 0., being attracted to that
city because it bore his name. On his way
there he stopped at Buffalo to visit his uncle,
Mr. Lewis P. Allen, who offered him a clerk
ship in order to prevent him going further
west. This position he accepted, and soon
aftei*, determining on law as his profession,
he entered the office of Rogers, Bowen &
Rogers to study, fn 1859 he was admitted to
the bar. Four ’'ears later he was appointed
assistant district attorney for the county of
Erie, which position he held for three years.
In 1865 he was nominated for district attor
ney, but was defeated. In 1871 he became a
member of the law firm of Bass, Cleveland
& Bissell. Mr. Cleveland is one of a family
of nine children.
THOMAS ANDREWS HENDRICKS, VICE PRESI
DENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Thomas Andrews Hendricks was born in
Muskingum county, Ohio, September 7,1819.
In 1832 his father settled in Shelby county,
Ind. Thomas graduated at South Hanover
college in 1843, studied law at Chambersburg,
Pa, was admitted to the bar there in 1843, and
returned to Indiana to practice. In 1813 he
was a member of the legislature, and in 185 U
a delegate to the state constitutional conven
tion. From 1 851 to 1855 he represented the
Indianapolis distinct in congress, from 1855 to
1859 was commissioner of the general land
office, and from 1863 to 1809 was a member of
the United .States senate, in which he was re
garded as the democratic leader. As candi
date for governor of Indiana ho was defeater
in 1860 and 1868, but was elected
in 1872 for the term ending January 1, 1877.
as a candidate for the vice presidency. In 1876
he shared the defeat of Samuel J. Tilden. Mr.
Hendricks has a patrician face and bearing, a
ready voice and cold light blue eyes. He can
make a graceful speech and talks well always.
He belongs to the intellectual and rapidly in
creasing order of smooth-faced men. His
high forhead, squarely built face, Roman nosa
and thin, closely Compressed lips bespeak the
reserve and caution which are the dominant
traits f I his character.
Three generations of Bayards have occupied
exalted stations in congrass and our diplomatic
service. Grandfather, son and grandson have
all been distinguished members of the United
States senate. The two latter were members
of that body from (lie same state for a time,
which is the only instance of the kind that
lias occurred. The present member of this
illustrious family, Thomas F. Bayard, is in
liis fifty-seventh year. He is tall, well built,
healthy, has been sixteen years in the senate,
and is looked upon in Washington as a type
pf official purity. He lias been married
THOMAS F. BAYARD, SECRETARY OF STATE,
twenty-eight years, and has twelve children,
nine of whom are daughters. Mrs. Bayard
spends a part of each winter with her hus
band in Washington, though she much pro
:ers, as her husband does, their modest, old
fashioned mansion in the extreme southern
portion of Wilmington, overlooking Dela
ware bay. Mr. Bayard is probably worth
$100,OtX), SBO,OOO of which he inherited from
his father.
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DANIEL MANNING, SECRETARY OF THE
TREASURY.
What Mr. Manning is he owes to himself.
His boyhood was so hard and short that at
nine years of age he was forced to earn a liv
ing as office boy in The Albany Argus, where
ha learned to set typo, making his way into
William Cassidy, the editor’s, good graces.
He was a steady, bright-faced, active lad,
with a direct, simple way of saying things,
that soon made him available as a reporter.
Li time Cassidy made him city editor, and
on Cassidy’s death years afterwards he stop
ped into his place. Perhaps the rarest luck that
ever befel Daniel Manning was the liking
William Cassidy took to him. The editor of
The Argus was not only a keen politician, an
accomplished scholar and a brilliant writer,
but he was one of the most highly bred men
ever known in Albany society. From his
honest Irish parents young Manning got the
nigged constitution and powerful frame that
have been to him more than a fortune and a
college diploma. But from William Cassidy
he learned suave courtesy and easy dignity.
It has often been said that no man could as
sociate with Cassidy and not learn to behave
like a gentleman. Mr. Maiming has been the
president of a bank, a leader in the enterprise
of Albany and the greatest single power in
his community. Ha has great common sense
and business sagacity, qualities that have
made his paper a power and turned the oppor
tunities it threw in his way into the roads to
an honest and a handsome fortune. He is an
adroit and imperturbable politician, who
uses candidates rather than others in
his game. He has never until now
held an office, though he has disposed of
many. He has long been a disciple of
Samuel J. Tilden, and as chairman of the
democratic state committee he has a national
reputation.
WILLIAM CUOWNINSHIELD ENDICOTT, SECRE
TARY OF WAR.
ExMudgo Endicott was born in Salem
about 1827, He graduated from Harvard coR
lege imtho class of 1847 and married his cousin,
a daughter of George Peabody. He has two
children, a son and a daughter. Judge Endi
eott was admitted to the liar about 1850. Gov.
Washburn appointed him to a seat on the su
preme bench in 1873, which he held until 1882,
when he resigned. He is a member of the
Massachusetts Historical society and of the
board of overseers of Harvard college. Judge
Endicott is a direct descendant from Gov.
John Endicott. Until the Bell and Everett
campaign he was an old-line whig. At that
time he came into tlip-democratic parly. Aj
a lawyer lie has beeu very thorough, and in
pleading a case very dignified. As u judge he
stood high in funk. He has never been prom
inent in politics, until he was the nominee of
THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST.
the democratic party of Massachusetts foi
governor last fall, and although defeated he
received a very handsome vote.
W7L ,IAM C. WHITNEY, SECRETARY OF THB
NAVY.
William O. Whitney was born at Conway,
Mass., forty-five years ago. He is the son of
Gen. James 8 Whitney, of Boston,
snd son-in-law of Henry B. Payne,
of Ohio. He graduated at Yale it
1863, ' and then at Harvard lan
nchool. Coming to New York he took a desli
in the office of Judge A. R. Lawrence. Here
Whitney became familiar with the intricate
laws of Gotham, which it afterwards liecann
his duty as corporation counsel to enforce
His admission to the New York bar tool
place in 1864. His business for some tim
was chiefly in connection with corpora
tions, in which he obtained a large.practice.
Prior to his first appointment as corporation
counsel of the city of New York, whirl
took place in 1375, at the time when thi
Tweed ring affairs were still dragging through
the courts, he held the office successively
through the admin istrati on of several mayori
till 1882, when he resigned, as he said, foi
personal reasons. It is not to be presumed
that because lie proved the exception to An
drew Jackson’s remark about officeholders—
that few die and none resign—that the offic<
was not an important one. The salary wai
$15,009 per year. The suits in the courts m
which the city was concerned seldom involved
less than $15,000,000 to $20,(MX),000, Mr.
Whitney is tall and lean, with a free am
easy juvenile manner. He is fond of goon
dinners r.nd good society.
AUGUSTUS H. GARLAND, ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Though a native of Tennessee Senator Gar
land's family removed to Arkansas when he
was but one year old. He received a collegi
ate education in Kentucky and was admitted
to the bar at the age of twenty. He was a del
egate to the state convention that passed the
ordinance of secession and subsequently
served in both houses of the confederate con
gress. He was elected to the United States
senate from Arkansas in 1866. In 1874 he was
elected governor of his state, took his seat in
the United States senate in 1877 and vjas re
elected in 1883. Garland is one of the ablest
men in the senate. He is one of tha finest
southern gentlemen in Washington. Senator
Palmer says he will be a credit to Mr. Cleve
land’s administration as far as ability goes.
He is indefatigable in committee work; his
legal knowledge and judicial impartial
tiy have made him an invaluable
member of the judiciary committee.
He does not pay much attention to
his personal appearance. He is a widower
and has three children. He has a pleasant
home on Massachusetts avenue in Washing
ton and one at Little Rock, Ark.
LUCIUS QCI NT lUS CUUTIUS LAMAR, SECRE
TARY OF THE INTKHIqU.
Lucius Q. (J. Lamar U n typical sontlloruar
in appearance, birth and training, and is one
of the brainiest man in southern poli
tics. 11c is in his sixtieth year, and hud a
diversified and extremely interesting career.
After his admittance to the bar at the age ol
twenty-two, he spent many years as a tutor in
various colleges. He was a member from
Mississippi of the 35th and 3(th congresses,
prior to the breakiug out of the war, but re
signed to take jMirt in the secession convention
of his state. In the confederate army he won
a colonelcy. After the war he was elected to
the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses,
and then elected to the United States senate
in 1877, aud re-elected in 1882. The eulogy ol
Charles Sumner, delivered by Mr. Lamar in
the house of representatives in March, 1874,
was the advance step toward healing the sec
tional differences that existed between the
north an and south. Mr. Lamar is a widowei
and lives in furnished lodgings in Washing
ton. Ho knows and cares as little about
mop >•-•,sinking as a child, aud is consequently
poet
W. F. VILAS, POSTMASTER GENERAL.
Mr. Vilas was born at Chelsea, Orange
county, Vt., July !), 1840. When he was
eleven years old lie went to Wisconsin and
entered as a pupil of the university of that
state, and was graduated there in 1858. After
which he studied law in Alliany, N. Y., and
was graduated from the law school of that
city in 1800. Being admitted to the supremo
court of New York he removed to Wisconsin,
and iu 1800 he made his first argument before
the supreme court of that state. Upon the
outbreak of the war Mi - . Vilas entered the
army as captain in the twenty-third Wis
consin volunteers, and rase to be major ami
lieutenant-colonel. He resigned his commis
sion and resumed the practice of the law Janu
ary 1,1804. The supreme court of Wisconsin
appointed Col. Vilas one of the revisors of the
statutes of the state in 1875, and the revision
of 1878, adopted by the state, was partly
made by him. In 1879 Mr. Vilas refused the
use of bis name as a candidate for the gover
norship of Wisconsin. He has persistently
declined office, but went to Chicago as a del
egate to the convention of 1884, which hon
ored him with its permanent chairman
ship.
I By midnight the number of persons in tilt
city was greater than ever before in its his
tory. President-elect Cleveland called at tht
white house and spent nearly two hours in
conversation with President Arthur in th<
red parlor, and was then driven back to the
Aldington hotel and the stream of callers re
commenced. President Arthur returned the
visit, accompanied by Marshal McMichael.
The visit was a brief one and at its conclusion
Mr. Cleveland and party dined in the private
dining l oom.
INAUGURAL SCENES.
WASHINGTON’S GRAND GREETING TO
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Xlie City Dressed in Diluting and Flowers.
Gorgeous Scenes of Pomp and Pa
geantry Illustrated—The New Ad
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THU INAUGURAL PfiUdqWHlQ}?,
To a nun) on top of the Washington i tonu
nient the capital must have looked as it did
in the spring of 18:15, when the vic'.jrious
armies and the multitude behind, with
them gathered here. Again the multitudes
poured in from every side of the city. Great
squares of moving musket barrels gleamed in
the sun, banners, Hags ai. 1 transparencies
rose above the compact masses of marching
civilians. Gorgeous hands formed resplendent
squares here and there, and so closely packed
were the shifting multitudes of spectators fill
ing the spaces between the car tracks and the
buildings that the very ground seemed alive.
The sight of the marching troops, ascending
Capitol Hill from all directions was a grand
one, and different strains of music from
many bands had an inspiring effect upon the
multitude. By half-past 10 o’clock the space
east of the main entrance of the capitol was
literally packed with human beings. Many
persons took positionss on th§ steps of the
house wing as early as 7 o’clock in order to
have a good view of the proceedings. Nearly
as far as the eye could reach from the capitol
in all directions the streets and avenues were
crowded with military organizations. Both
sides of Pennsylvania avenue from
Eighteenth street to the capitol were lined
with a surging mass of humanity. The stands
erected along the route were crowded and the
greatest enthusiasm prevails.
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THE PRESIDENT TAKING THE OATH.
| After the organization of the senate was
completed, those assembled in the senate
chamber proceeded through the rotunda ta
the platform on the central portico of the
capitol.
At noon the oath of office was administered
to the president-elect by the chief justice,
and President Cleveland delived bis inaugu
ral address.
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THE PRESIDENT READING IIIS INAUGURAI
ADDRESS,
The tide of people that flowed to the capito
to hear the inaugural address was a perfeo
flood. Without and within that building al
was animation and bustle. Crowds of peopli
not tortunate enough to secure tickets or ad
mission to the senate lounged about, as if ad
mission were to lie won by waiting. Thci
number of passes Issued, however, was not
small, each senator receiving five and each
representative two. As soon as the doors
were opened the galleries of the senate rapidly
tilled. Many holding tickets to the senate
w - ing, hut not to the galleries, filled the wings,
and corridors. The military organizations,
assembled iu the cross streets about the Caja
tol park, where they remained while the pres
identelect delivered his iuaugural address.
THE AV THE WHITE H<V '
At 1 o’c\opk, op the conclusion of the cere-
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