They could scarce realize at first that they were again in power.

The new chieftain proved more of an unknown quantity than had been suspected.

William Dorsheimer, a life-long crony, had brought the two of us together before Cleveland's election to the governorship of the Empire State as one of a group of attractive Buffalo men, most of whom might be said to have been cronies of mine, Buffalo being a delightful halfway stop-over in my frequent migrations between Kentucky and the Eastern seaboard.

As in the end we came to a parting of the ways I want to write of Mr.Cleveland as a historian and not as a critic.
He said to Mr.Carlisle after one of our occasional tiffs: "Henry will never like me until God makes me over again." The next time we met, referring to this, I said: "Mr.President, I like you very much--very much indeed--but sometimes I don't like some of your ways." There were in point of fact two Clevelands--before marriage and after marriage--the intermediate Cleveland rather unequal and indeterminate.
Assuredly no one of his predecessors had entered the White House so wholly ignorant of public men and national affairs.

Stories used to be told assigning to Zachary Taylor this equivocal distinction.