The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland Paperback - 1201
by Grover Cleveland
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF GROVER CLEVELAND. CHAPTER I. SPEECHES AND LETTERS ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS. Speech before City Convention, Buffalo, October 25, 1881. Gentlemen Of The Convention: I am informed that you have bestowed upon me the nomination for the office of Mayor. It certainly is a great honor to be thought fit to be the chief officer of a great and prosperous city like ours, having such important and varied interests. I hoped that your choice might fall upon some other and more worthy member of the city Democracy, for personal and private considerations have made the question of acceptance on my part a difficult one. But because I am a Democrat, and because I think no one has a right, at this time of all others, to consult his own inclinations as against the call of his party and fellow-citizens, and hoping that I may be of use to you in your efforts to inaugurate a better rule in municipal affairs, I accept the nomination tendered me. I believe that much can be done to relieve our citizens from their present load of taxation, and that a more rigid scrutiny of all public expenditures will result in a great saving to thecommunity. I also believe that some extravagance in our city government may be corrected without injury to the public service. There is, or there should be, no reason why the affairs of our city should not be managed with the same care and the same economy as private interests. And when we consider that public officials are the trustees of the people, and hold their places and exercise their powers for the benefit of the people, there should be no higher inducement to a faithful and honest discharge of public duty. These are very old truths; but I cannot forbear to speak in this strain to-day, because I believe the time has come ...
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- Title The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland
- Author Grover Cleveland
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher General Books
- Date 12012
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780217898997 / 0217898998
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.41 in (24.61 x 18.90 x 1.04 cm)
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