convention in St. Louis on June 6, 1888.  At the election in November he received 168 electoral votes, while 233 were cast for Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate.  Of the popular vote, however, he received 5,540,329, and Mr. Harrison received 5,439,853.  At the close of his Administration, March 4, 1889, he retired to New York City, where he reentered upon the practice of his profession.  It soon became evident, however, that he would be prominently urged as a candidate for renomination in 1892.  At the national Democratic convention which met in Chicago June 21, 1892, he received more than two-thirds of the votes on the first ballot.  At the election in November he received 277 of the electoral votes, while Mr. Harrison received 145 and Mr. James B. Weaver, the candidate of the People’s Party, 22.  Of the popular vote Mr. Cleveland received 5,553,142, Mr. Harrison 5,186,931, and Mr. Weaver 1,030,128.  He retired from office March 4, 1897, and removed to Princeton, N.J., where he has since resided.  He is the first of our Presidents who served a second term without being elected as his own successor.  President Cleveland was married in the White House on June 2, 1886, to Miss Frances Folsom, daughter of his deceased friend and partner, Oscar Folsom, of the Buffalo bar.  Mrs. Cleveland was the youngest (except the wife of Mr. Madison) of the many mistresses of the White House, having been born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1864.  She is the first wife of a President married in the White House, and the first to give birth to a child there, their second daughter (Esther) having been born in the Executive Mansion in 1893.

INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

Fellow-citizens:  In the presence of this vast assemblage of my countrymen I am about to supplement and seal by the oath which I shall take the manifestation of the will of a great and free people.  In the exercise of their power and right of self-government they have committed to one of their fellow-citizens a supreme and sacred trust, and he here consecrates himself to their service.

This impressive ceremony adds little to the solemn sense of responsibility with which I contemplate the duty I owe to all the people of the land.  Nothing can relieve me from anxiety lest by any act of mine their interests may suffer, and nothing is needed to strengthen my resolution to engage every faculty and effort in the promotion of their welfare.

Amid the din of party strife the people’s choice was made, but its attendant circumstances have demonstrated anew the strength and safety of a government by the people.  In each succeeding year it more clearly appears that our democratic principle needs no apology, and that in its fearless and faithful application is to be found the surest guaranty of good government.

But the best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen.