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AS A MAN, THE NOBLEST AND PUREST OF HIS TIMES.

AS A CITIZEN, THE GRANDEST OF HIS NATION.

AS A STATESMAN, THE IDOL OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.

THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES

OF

THE GREAT REFORM GOVERNOR,

Hon. Grover Cleveland,

OUR NEXT PRESIDENT.

EMBRACING A FULL ACCOUNT OF HIS EARLY LIFE; HIS STRUGGLES WITH
POVERTY AND EFFORTS TO OBTAIN AN EDUCATION; HIS AMBITION
AS A STUDENT; HIS EARLY POLITICAL CAREER AND RAPID
ADVANCEMENT; HIS ABLE AND PATRIOTIC RECORD AS
MAYOR OF BUFFALO AND AS GOVERNOR OF THE GREAT
EMPIRE STATE; HIS MANFUL BATTLES WITH
RINGS AND CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES.

BY COL. HERMAN DIECK,

OF THE "PHILadelphia democrat," the DISTINGUISHED AND POPULAR writer.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

The Life of Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks,

The Statesman Elected in 1876, and Counted Out by Fraud.

The work also contains an account of the election and administration of every President from Washington to Arthur, and fine portraits of all of them, with a history of the National Democratic Conventions from 1832, and a large amount of valuable statistical matter, giving the returns of the votes cast at all our Presidential elections.

Embellished with Fine Steel Portraits of Cleveland and Hendricks and Numerous Illustrations on Wood.

NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.,

PHILADELPHIA, PA., CHICAGO, ILLS., ST. LOUIS, MO.,
AND ATLANTA, GA.

COPYRIGHTED, 1884.

TO THE VOTERS

OF THE

Grand Old Democratic Party,

THE PARTY OF WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, JACKSON AND THEIR
ILLUSTRIOUS COMPEERS;

THE PARTY THAT HAS ALWAYS BATTLED FOR PRINCIPLES
AND OFFICIAL INTEGRITY;

THE PARTY WHOSE NAME IS SYNONYMOUS WITH ALL THAT IS
ENNOBLING IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY;

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED,

IN THE HOPE AND WITH THE SINCERE CONVICTION THAT IN NOVEMBER, 1884, ITS ILLUSTRIOUS STANDARD-BEARERS,

GROVER CLEVELAND

AND

THOS. A. HENDRICKS,

WILL BE ELECTED TO THE HIGHEST OFFICES IN THE GIFT OF THE PEOPLE, THAT CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES MAY BE SUPPLANTED

BY HONESTY AND INTEGRITY.