It is on this basis only that any superstructure of intellectual cultivation worth having can possibly be built." "I think he is a most extraordinary man," said John J.Ingalls, speaking of Grover Cleveland.

"While the Senate was in session to induct Hendricks into office, I had an opportunity to study Cleveland, as he sat there like a sphinx.

He occupied a seat immediately in front of the vice-president's stand, and from where I sat, I had an unobstructed view of him.
"I wanted to fathom, if possible, what manner of a man it was who had defeated us and taken the patronage of the government over to the democracy.

We had a new master, so to speak, and a democrat at that, and I looked him over with a good deal of curiosity.
"There sat a man, the president of the United States, beginning his rule over the destinies of sixty millions of people, who less than three years before was an obscure lawyer, scarcely known outside of Erie County, shut up in a dingy office over a livery stable.

He had been mayor of the city of Buffalo at a time when a crisis in its affairs demanded a courageous head and a firm hand and he supplied them.