Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-26
PLANS TO CAPTURE CLEVELAND
Hopes That He May Yield to social Ii
s-Arthur's Roy al Disregard f.


Hopes That He May Yield to social In
fuences-A rthur's Roy al Disregard for
Others.
The social powers connected with this
administration. says Washington spe-
cial to the New York World, give up their
hold with the greatest reluctance. A
number Of them will do the best that they
can to capture Cleveland and bring him
under the sway Of the social influences
that have so long controlled without any
regard 10 party politics. In the society
which has acknowledged Arthur as one Of
It's leading members there have been
nearly as many Democrats as Republi-
cans. The people who have been so sue
cesstul with him hope to control MIR.
Cleveland in the same way.
The Erelinghuysens will not retire from
w ashlngton at once. They may remain
here. 1t is there present intention to
| show the greatest kindness and courtesy
to the incoming President. They have
launched one President in what they are
pleased to regard as good society, and
now they are determined to take his sue
| cessOr in hand and to show him the Open
gateway and the straight road to the very
heart OF the best society OF Washington.
The FrelInghuysens are planning a grand
reception to be giNen within day or two
after the inauguration. This reception is
to surpass anything that they have yet
given. 1t is Ostensibly in the honor of
Mr.. Arthur. Mr.. Cleveland is to be in
vlted, however, and is to pose as the lion of
the evening in the house of the Freling-
huysens. Some of the Democrats who
know Mr.. Cleveland have an idea that he
will not care to make his first appearance
in Washington society under the auspices
M "a Arfh
not regard the reception as at all in good
taste. The Frelinghuysens should resign
themselves TO the inevitable and not COOL
lshly attempt to hang on to a position
they cannot possibly hold with the change
OF affairs after March 4. In the first place
it is very improbable that Mr.. Cleveland
Will accept their invitation. 1t is well
enough for the President to give dinner
to his successor the night before Inaugural
ton, but L dare say that Mr.. Cleveland
would forgive HIM If he omitted the GUS
tom, as ne will have a great plenty of
business to transact that evening and a
number of consultations with leading
Democrats.
The President has been subjected to a
great deal of criticism for his rude con-
duct last Saturday at the capitol during
the dedication ceremonies of the Wash
ington Monument. The procession, made
up Of visitors from abroad and military
representatives Of the army and the mi
lltla companies of Washington, was kept
waiting In the severe cold in front of the
reviewing stand for over an hour. The
Senate was kept waiting in its chamber
during the same time. In the House the
Speaker and his associates and the prOmi-
nent guests were also kept waiting for
the President. 1t was only after the cere-
monies were all over that it was learned
That Mr.. Arthur had stopped upon the
Senate side and had ordered a lunch.
This he leisurely enjoyed with one or two
friends during the long hour he kept thou
sands of people waiting upon his cOnVe-
nlence. Not one of them had any OPP
pOrtunity for going to lunch, as he was
expected every moment. If he had taken
the trouble to send out notice that he was
going to devote an hour to stutfing himself
then others might have availed them
selves OF the same opportunity. All of
the principal people connected with the
affair of that day went without eating
from breakfast until in the evening.
None of them were disposed to be very
patient when they learned of the Presi-
dents disregard for their comfort. The
incident, however, is only part and parcel
OF the rule of the administration this Win
ter. The President ard his familiars have
appeared to regard themselves as above
all obligations to people with whom they
have come in social contact. 1t was at
one of the last card receptions of the
President that he committed the unpar-
donable rudeness of continually taking
out his watch during the last half
hour of the reception in the face
of guests who were being pre-
sented to him. This was regarded
by these guests as plain notification to
them that the hour of feeding was APP
preaching, and that when the admins
tration's stomach was empty, every form
Of social duty must be dropped. Added
to this rudeness was the fact that ne sim
gled out perhaps a dozen of his guests
and carried them Off to a supper-rOOm
almost in the face of his other invited
guests. Those who were invited to stand
and wait were driven out of the house in
as direct fashion as if they had been
taken by the collar and requested to 90.
Those who had been invited to feed were
OstentatiOusly selected by the Lord
Chamberlain, McMichael, and gathered
into superciliOus, insolent group behind
the President, who stared alternately
with dead eyes at his guests, who were
still coming before him, and then, with
the eyes of a gourmand, looking upon the
face of his watch.