File No. 14279.
[Untitled]
Department of state,
Washington, June 24,
1908.
To the diplomatic and consular
officers of the United States.
Gentlemen: Your attention is invited to the
President’s proclamation of to-day’s date announcing the death of
ex-President Grover Cleveland, and directing proper expressions of honor
to his memory.
You will cause the flags of your respective offices to be displayed at
half-staff for a period of 30 days from the day of the receipt of this
instruction or from the day on which you may have received advance
information by telegraph.
I am, etc.,
Alvey A. Adee,
Acting Secretary.
[Inclosure.]
Announcing the death of Honorable Grover
Cleveland.
The
White House, June 24,
1908.
By the President of the United
States.
A PROCLAMATION.
To the people of the United
States:
Grover Cleveland, President of the United States from 1885 to 1889
and again from 1893 to 1897, died at 8.40 o’clock this morning at
his home in Princeton, New Jersey. In his death the Nation has been
deprived of one of its greatest citizens. By profession a lawyer,
his chief services to his country were rendered during his long,
varied, and honorable career in public life. As mayor of his city,
as governor of his State, and twice as President, he showed signal
power as an administrator, coupled with entire devotion to the
country’s good and the courage that quailed before no hostility when
once he was convinced where his duty lay. Since his retirement from
the Presidency he has continued well and faithfully to serve his
countrymen by the simplicity, dignity, and uprightness of his
private life.
In testimony of the respect in which his memory is held by the
Government and people of the United States, I do hereby direct that
the flags on the White House and the several departmental buildings
be displayed at half-staff for a period of thirty days; and that
suitable military and naval honors, under the orders of the
Secretaries of War and of the Navy, be rendered on the day of the
funeral.
Done this
twenty-fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and eight and of the independence of
the United States of America the one hundred and
thirty-second.
[
seal.]
Theodore Roosevelt.
By the President:
Alvey A.
Adee,
Acting Secretary of
State.
