Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-06-06
the MARRIAGE.
The Most Popular Thing the Prssi-
dent Ever Did.
All Sorts Of Gossip About 1t, Good and
Bad-General Washing
ton Talk.


auds of friends in Washington. Many men
and women OF bread experience and bright
minds have yentured the assertion that if
he has IN his eye a second Presidential
term that his marriage will assist him
more than anything else nc could have
done. The condemnation IS probably
visible on account OF the long doubt which
existed in the minds of the people than 1t
would otherwise have bees. 1t was q
question for many weeks, even after
positive engagement was announced tnst
he really would get married
because be was such confirmed bachelor
Now that the thing is all over, and Grover
Cleveland is q domestic man and at the
head of a household, people are talking
about what kind of husband be will make
and what ne will do after he leaves hls
Presidential Office, if he does not get sec
ond term. They are also discussing the
reasons for his marriage, as though he was
not in love with the girl, and why she mar
ried him when there WAS such great dis
parity between their ages-he about 81, she
q.
A prominent Buffalo Democrat
who has known Mr.. Cleveland
for many years, aud who has seen CieVe-
land grow up from childhood, talking
about the matter, said today: i have no
doubt that in arriving at an ultimate con
clusion that he would marry and settle
down to a steady life, the President looked
all over tie problem as q man would a
question of business. he has looked into
the commercial aspect Of the case as well
as the moral. do not mean BY this that
he has paused at any time to consider
vbether be would better his financial con-
dition Immediately by his marriage, or that
he was selfish in any way, but he
realizes that he is largely a man
of destiny and that nls success
in ell respects has been phenomenal, and
he has been cautious not to take any step
which he feared would lose hun his won
derful good fortune. | remsmber only o
few years ago, that Grover Cleveland used
TO talk about the old bachelor who got
married in the crowd at Buffalo, and al
ways wished them we'll, but threw out
some remark about their being foolish and
about their regretting it someday."
"Why do you think the President got
marriei% inquired your correspondent.
There are two reasons. think, at
the back of it. Firat, Mr.. Cleveland
has grown tired of hunting new
,hums. At his old home ne helped to or
ganize number OF social crowds-in fact
he was always doing it-and he has seen
them drift away year by year, keeping
himself busy making new friends and com
psnions. While he was young and vlgor'
Gus he did not care very much and scarce
ly noticed the departure from his scenes OF
levity and enjoyment any number OF his
companions, but now he has arrived at an
sge when he does not want 10 keep up his
habits, aud be wants to settle down. Mr.,
Cleveland ia desirOus of the enjoyment and
the moral influence of a domestic house
hold. Then he has before MIN what may yet
be a long and brilliant public career. His
marriage will give him a settled condition
10 the public minds, and will cease the
wsgging Of scsndslOus tongues. Most all
men who have been pretty jolly in life De-
come grave and serious, if they do not be-
come reckless, after marriage II ls my
ooiuiou that Mr.. Cleveland will be much
better natured man hereafter, and that his
friends will be more enjoyable. l do not
mean that be has been man whose pres,
ence was burden to any one, bat be bs8
been somewhat sedate for years, and De
Geve he will now get his second growth.
Some of the Washington correspondence
have Kept scrap books Of newspaper gossip
which has been floating about for two
months on the point of the President )
marriage aud rumors to that end. lspsnt
an hour the other day looking over the
printed statements on two points-hrst,
who the President was engaged to, If any
one, and who he would marry, il any one;
second, the dsnials or evssious by the Pres,
ident himself OF the charge that he was in
love or engaged. Tnsre has been pco5.
ably City columns of matter printed in the
leading newspapers Of the country about
these two little things. At no time has
the President, it has been observed,
denied that he was going to marry
ANYBODY He has been as careful on this
paint as he has not to acknowledge thai
he vas really engaged. There has been
as much as twenty-five columns OF personal
sketches OF Miss Folsom printed, nearly
one third of which has been directed to bel
school life. 1t is not to be wondered at
however, that the:e should be so much tall
about Presidential marriage because
they are the most unusual things the
American people have ever witnessed. II
will be several months probably before an
entire cessation of this talk will come and
compilations OF old stories and history Of
their va affair will yet he present until
the p pie will have the whole case at their
tongUS 5 eud.
In sonnection with the purchase Of tie
Pres tents country home, aud the an
nouUSsment that he does not intend to live
there;at any time, comes the statement
that she purchase vas made as real es-
tate SPECULATION, and that behind all is q
comb ustion of no small magnitude. | sm
told that Secretary Whitney, who has q
hsndi0 ne and valuable country estate in
the direction of the Presidents place,
cosx&l Mr.. Cleveland into buying the
housb and ground on TeuallytoWn road,
and that it was for the purpose of making
moneY. II has also been related
TO ~ that Mr.. Whitney furnished
The money, which was about 81, 900, and
that he title to the place will never rest in
the uams Of the PresiIeut. There are
scores of shingles sticking along the fences
and he houses in thst uelgbborhood su
noun1,ng property for sale Quite good
deal 4 the property has been taken a. op-
ton -sthat il, spectators have given q GER
tain der cent. of the net value of the places,
for OPTIONAL sale, within a certain length
of time, and it is hoped that the purchase
by sohe one for the President, aud the c.
lebri.f that part of the District has gained,
will rush up the prices and
a speculation will follow. Should the
real estate out there advance in value, Mr..
Whitrey will make lot of money, if re
ports are true. This Is, according to re-
ports a second instance in the Presiden-
tisl family where monentary reucwn has
been taken advantage of for mercensry
purposes. The Presidents sister took &C.
cssion to publish book which found 3
large sale because she was the Presidents