...perfectly responsible party and §50,000 higher than one made by Mr. Talbot within a very few weeks. ... .1 withhold my assent from the same because I regard...shameless scheme to betray the interests of the people to vorse 15 than squander the nubile money. ' During this year as mayor of Buffalo Mr. Cleveland made...

...thousand dollars and attracted national attention by a veto message describing the intended deal as "a most barefaced, impudent, and shameless scheme to betray the interests of the people." When, therefore, he resubmitted the names for his commission with the comment that "their rejection...

...affairs." 109 And then, dropping sarcasm, the mayor told the aldermen his veto power had been exercised "because I regard it as the culmination of a most...barefaced, impudent and shameless scheme to betray the interest of the people and to worse than squander their money." There is more of it, but these samples...

...granting of a contract to a man whose bid was $100,000 above all others constituted nothing less than "a most barefaced, impudent, and shameless scheme to betray the interests of the people."6 When words like these were read by Tilden men in Albany, who were looking despairingly for...

...street-cleaning company that included ample payoffs to the aldermen themselves; Cleveland called it "the culmination of a most bare-faced, impudent, and...people, and to worse than squander the public money." Cleveland also vetoed city donations to the Firemen's Benevolent Fund and to a veterans organization,...

...for plain speech," and then "plainly stated" his objection to the proposed contract, which he defined as "the culmination of a most bare-faced, impudent,...and shameless scheme to betray the interests of the people."5 "Rarely," the Buffalo Courier editorialized, "have we heard such a universal and unanimous...

...except the very flimsy one that thee lower bidders cannot afford to do the work for the sums they name. have no place in this selfish, sordid world, except...whose votes were given for this resolution whom I can not and will not suspect of a willful neglect of the interests they are sworn to protect; but it...

...of your honorable body, which would be more creditable if it were less expensive to the taxpayers. I am not aware that any excuse is offered for the...shameless scheme to betray the interests of the people and worse than to squander the public money. I will not be misunderstood in this matter. There are those...

...Mayor said: "I withhold my assent from this ordinance because I regard it as the culmination of the most barefaced, impudent and shameless scheme to betray...people, and to worse than squander the public money." Following his service as Mayor, Mr. Cleveland was elected Governor of New York State. His election...