port. The friends of Garfield wished his defeat. The friends of Conkling wished his defeat; and to these discontents, added to Democratic enthusiasm, the friends of President Arthur could make but little resistance. The Republican treasury was without funds, and had the canvass lasted two weeks longer, the Republican cause would probably have been practically abandoned. The election resulted in a majority of one hundred and ninety-two thousand for Grover Cleveland; in the election of twenty-one Democratic members of the House of Representatives, and of a large majority in the State Assembly. The wisdom of those who had advised Mr. Cleveland's nomination was abundantly vindicated by this overwhelming victory.

In that hour of triumph there was one man whose mind was filled with anxiety. The Democratic candidate had, during the canvass, borne himself modestly, and had passed his time in the duties of his office. He heard the news of his success with joy, indeed, but it was a joy tempered by a sense of the undefined responsibilities which lay before him. This feeling showed itself in the speech which he made the night of his election at the Manhattan Club, and even more strongly in the address which he made upon taking the oath of office.

To many, the governorship thus attained suggested the presidency. If this high anticipation

came to him, as it did to others, it made no change in his demeanor. Deliberately and calmly he began to prepare for his departure, and performed the preliminary work in the composition of his message and the selection of his staff, as unostentatiously as if they were in the ordinary course of his daily employment.

"If chance will have one king, why, chance may crown me Without my stir."

CHAPTER V.

THE GOVERNORSHIP.

VETO OF THE FIVE-CENT FARE BILL AND OTHER VETOES.

MR. CLEVELAND entered upon the Governorship under certain disadvantages. The accession of a new Governor always excites public expectation. This expectation was greatly increased and quickened by the incidents of the canvass, by the unprecedented majority he had received, and by the fact that he was new to public life. The people naturally looked with exceeding curiosity for the first of his public acts in order that they might determine what manner of man he was, and how fitted for the great place into which he had so suddenly come. His acquaintance with public men was limited, and his acquaintance with the affairs of the State was probably only such as would be obtained by a lawyer in the ordinary course of his profession. He had never been in the Legislature, nor in any way connected with the State administration. He set about his work with a strong sense of these deficiencies, but with a resolution to do whatever he found to be his duty, so