Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-08-14
FRIENDLY ADVICE TO cLEvELAND
a Letter of Bill Nye's Which Has Just
Seen the Light.
HUDsoN. Wis, June 3, 1886.

seen the Light
HUDSON. Wis, June 3, 1886.
The Hon. Grover Cleveland, Wash
ington, D. G.
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sumed a new duty and taken upon
yourself an additional responsibility.
Not content with the great weight of
national affairs sufficient to crush any
other pachyderm, you have cheerfully
and almost gleefully become a mar
ried man. While / cannot agree with
you politically. Grover, [ am forced
to admire your courage.
This. morning a new life opens out
to you-the life Of a married man. 1t
is indeed a humiliating situation. To
be a president Of the United States,
the r%oustabout Of a free people, is a
trying situation; but to be a newly
married president, married in the full
glare Of official life, with the eye Of a
divided constituency upon you, is to
place yourself where nerve is absolute
" essential. [ am surprised, Grover.
honestly, as between nan and a
that YOU should have tried to add
housekeeping to all this other agony.
Had you been young and tender under
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but you must admit, in the quiet and
sanctity of your own home, Grover,
that you are no gosling. You have
arrived at mans estate. You have
climbed the barbed-wire fence which
separates the fluff and bloom and
blossom and bumble-bees of impet-
nous youth from the yellow iel,ts
and shadowy orchards Of middle life.
You now stand il the full glare OF
LIES meridian. You are entering
upon a new experience. Possibly you
think that because you are president
the annoyance peculiar to the life Of
anew green groom Will not reach you.
Do not fool yourself in this manner
Others have made the same mistake.
Position. wealth. and fame cannot
shnt out the awkward and trying cir
cumstances which attend the married
man even as tie sparks are prone tc
fly upward.
1t will seem odd to YOU at first, Mr..
President, after the affairs of the ma
ton have been put aside for the day
and the government freproof safe
locked up for the night, to go up to
your boudoir and converse with 4
bride with one corner Of her mouth
full Of pins. A nan may write a
pretty fair message to congress, one
that will be accepted and printed all
over the country, and yet he may not
be fitted to hold 4 conversation with
one corner Of a woman's mouth while
the other is filed with pins. To some
men it is given to be great as states
men, while to others it is given to be
fluent conyersationalists under these
circumstances.
Mr.. President, I may be taking q
great liberty in writing to you and
touching upon your private affairs,
but [ noticed that everybody else was
doing it. and SO l have nerved myself
up to write to you, having once been
d married man myself, though not
under the same circumstances. When
/ was married [ was only a plain jus
tee of the peace, plodding quietly
along and striving to Go my duty.
You was then sheriff of your county.
Little did we think in those days that
now you would be a freshly married
president and [ the author of several
pieces which have bean printed in the
papers. Little did we think then,
when / was a justice Of the peace in
Wyoming and you a sheriff in New
York, that today your timothy lawn
would be kicked all to pieces by your
admiring constituents, while [ would
be known and loved wherever the
English language is tempered with.
So we have risen together, you to a
point from which you may be easily