Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-24
THE NEXt PRESIDENT.
How He Looks and what Fc says
Interview witt the Soon.Tu-Bc
EX.GUvcruur-His Private
Secretary.

what manner Of ioau this memorable cam.
paigu Of 1884 has crowned with the
greatest Of earthly hOnors, writes El.
mund Hudson, editor OF tho Washington
Capital.
At four O'Clock in the afternoon
found the governor sitting in tho vaaI
and splendid executive chamber in the
new capitol building How many king.
or emperoTs ever received their subjects,
| wonder, in such a noble apart.
msnt AS this, in which the chief
ruler of he Empire state meets
his fellow citi2enal The white house will
seem to him very poor and cheap IN com.
p%arison, when he comes TO occupy it.
Perhaps the contrast will be great enough
tomske him an earneBt advocate Of o nos
executive mansion, or a rebuilt one al
any rate. That would be something to
BIZ thankful for it it should happen. The
governor sits in q cane.geated swivel
chair, before one Of q number Of large
red-topped desks the others belonging
to his secretaries. Troops Of visitors are
constantly passing through the chamber;
and those who care to do 80 walk up to
him and pay their respects. He asks
no one to sit, but when there are
ladies in tho party he rises and
shakes hands and exchanges q few
pleasant words with them. Tho gov
ernor's greeting ID a pleasant one, but
very simple and with no excess of
cordiality of voice or N His
voice, one notices instantly, has none of
the suave and fascinating quality of Mr..
Blaine's. 1t is not q voice that has been
used to magnetic or attract men and
m 1t is not the voice of a man who
asks favors of others, nor is 1t the voice
OF an orator. But there ia criticism and
emphasis in il, and, while not a soft
voice, 1t Is not hard norrough.
The first impression one gets of Gov.
Cleveland is that he is q young man,
There is a bald place one sees afterward
that goes we'll down on tho back of his
head, but the face is tho face of a man in
the freshest health-a man full of life
who has never greatly abused himself nor
overdrawn upon his vitality. Tall and
stout he is, it must be confessed, but not
an obeae man, and while one would not
expect him to prefer an active life, his
power of work must De enormous. He
looks like a man who could work twenty
four hours without rest and then be-
gin a new days work, if need be, with
more vigor than the average man pos
sesses after q good nights sleep.
1 naturally fell to talking with the
about Washington, and asked
him if ir possibly be true, as reported,
that he had never visited the capital.
He replied that there was no truth in
that statement, as he had been in
Washington two or three times on busi.
ness, although never of course, since he
became governor of New York. He
said he had come to no decision as to
when he would give up his present off
ice and prepare to go TO Washington;
but l learned afterward that, in order to
give his successor the fullest advantage,
he would probably resign the governor
ship by the LIST of January. This would
leave him two free months in which to
of his cabinet and the administration of
national affairs.
/ remarked to the governor that his
election had been followed by some.
thing like-,a panic among the minor
employees of the government at Wash
ington, who are supposed to hold their
places in accordance with the new civil
service regulations, and [ inquired of
him whether 1t might not be worth while
for him to indicate in some way, if that
were his purpose, that the spirit of civil
service regulations would be adhered to
after the 4th of March next. To this the
governor briskly replied 81 think l
have said enough on that subject. 1t is
in my letter. 1t is in the platform.
There is no use of trying to beat brains
into peoples heads. Let them attend to
their business-let them attend to their
business" he said, repeating the words
in a very decided manner and with a
gesture of the head that indl ,ated more
han the tone In which he spoke.
In conversation the governor speaks
with a good deal of animation, and the
strongest impression one gets of him is of
great firmness and force in adhering to q
course once 1t Is adopted, One would say;
''Here is a man surely, who can not be
but who will do the driving him
self whenever it is necessary" One
ask a good deal of such a man, but
to demand, / should think, would be a
losing business. 1t is q pleasure to write
these words, knowing that they will
the eye of many who have been
and believing that Grover Glove
land was a weak man, and that he don't
know how to Withstand tho pressure that
inevitably bears upon the freshly chosen
occupant of the white house. There Ia
strength and decision In his ucterance,
which would seem to say that if any man
wanted to have q row with MI. Cleve.
land he could be accommodated
Immediately, and would not be
asked to postpone the ceremonie
until another day. His manner is no
that of a business man who conduct
large affairs without ~pretension, withous
circumlocution, without unnecessary talk
or labor, but with care and judgment.
In the course of the conversation tho
governor pleasantly remarked of he
newspaper men whom he had met in
Albany that his relations had al
ways been agreeable with them. He
had been accustomed to talk freely with
them, and it had never happened him
to have his confidence betrayed, and
things printed which he said, not mean.
log that they should be printed. Plainly
he is q man who meets hia fellow.men on
a common footing Of candor and fair
dealing, a man who has no deep schemes
to hide from the world, a man with
whom it would be easy to maintain rels.
lations of confidence and esteem.
Afterward / met Colonel Daniel S.
Lamont, the governors right hand
man," of whom 1t is a pleasure to say that
he seems to b, an ideIl private secretary
He has a perfect acquaintance with the
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