Recollections of Grover ClevelandCentury Company, 1909 - 427页 |
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able accept administration Albany Albany Convention appointment asked association attention Augustus Schell Bayard became began Buffalo Cabinet campaign candidate career carried character Cleve close Colonel Lamont command Committee Congress convention deal delegates Democratic devoted duty effective election Erie County executive fact Fanny Crosby favor free silver friends George F Government Governor Grover Cleveland Hoke Smith Horace Boies idea important inauguration insisted interest JOHN GRIFFIN CARLISLE knew known lawyer leaders letter looked Mayor ment mind movement navy necessary never newspapers nomination opinion Parker partizan party perhaps political position President Presidential Princeton principles public sentiment question reached relations Republican responsibility result Richard Olney Secretary Senate sent showed soon speech spite success suggested tariff thing thought Tilden tion took trust United vote Washington Whitney William WILLIAM FREEMAN VILAS William L York
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第iii页 - For ever silent ; even if they broke In thunder, silent ; yet remember all He spoke among you, and the Man who spoke; Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor palter'd with Eternal God for power; Who let the turbid streams of rumour flow Thro...
第208页 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
第47页 - When cool judgment rules the hour, the people will, I hope and believe, have no reason to complain of the action of your honorable body. But clumsy appeals to prejudice or passion, insinuations, with a kind of low, cheap cunning, as to the motives and purposes of others, and the mock heroism of brazen effrontery which openly declares that a wholesome public sentiment is to be set at naught, sometimes deceives and leads honest men to aid in the consummation of schemes which, if exposed, they would...
第62页 - It is manifestly important that invested capital should be protected, and that its necessity and usefulness in the development of enterprises valuable to the people should be recognized by conservative conduct on the part of the State government. "But we have especially in our keeping the honor and good faith of a great State, and we should see to it that no suspicion attaches, through any act of ours, to the fair fame of the commonwealth.
第151页 - If we have developed an unexpected capacity for the assimilation of a largely increased volume of the currency, and even if we have demonstrated the usefulness of such an increase, these conditions fall far short of insuring us against disaster if, in the present situation, we enter upon the dangerous and reckless experiment of free, unlimited, and independent silver coinage.
第226页 - ... policyholders, and the present condition amounts to a public misfortune. In the hope of putting an end to this condition and in connection with a change of the executive management of the Society, I have . . . purchased this block of stock and propose to put it into the hands of a board of trustees having no connection with Wall Street, with power to vote it for the election of directors — as to twenty-eight of the fifty-two directors, in accordance with the instructions of the policyholders...
第382页 - The Bible is good enough for me," he said; "just the old book under which I was brought up. I do not want notes, or criticisms, or explanations about authorship or origin, or even cross-references. I do not need or understand them, and they confuse me.
第229页 - I cannot rid myself of the belief that what has overtaken this company is liable to happen to other insurance companies and fiduciary organizations as long as lax ideas of responsibility in places of trust are tolerated by our people. The high pressure of speculation, the madness of inordinate business scheming, and the chances taken in new and uncertain enterprises, are constantly present temptations, too often successful, in leading managers and directors away from scrupulous loyalty and fidelity...
第212页 - There never was a man in this high office so surrounded with difficulties and so perplexed and so treacherously treated and so abandoned by those whose aid he desired, as the present incumbent.
第221页 - ... peculiar tenseness familiar to every man who has dreamed of national political power; and the hopefulness which had carried him through so many apparently desperate political battles began to return, despite his physical condition. On March i4th, he bared his heart to his old friend, E. Prentiss Bailey: "I cannot rid myself of the idea that our party, which has withstood so many clashes with our political opponents, is not doomed at this time to sink to a condition of useless and lasting decadence....