The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-13
CoNDOLING WITH CLEVELAND.
Bill Nye Nerves Himself Up and Sends the
President Letter.

Chicago News.
It will seem odd to you at first, Mr.. President,
after the affairs of the Nation have been put
aside for the day, and the government fire-proof
boudoir and converse with bride, with one
corner of her mouth full Of pins. A man may
write 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 a
conversation with one corner Of woman's
mouth while the other is filled with pins. TO
some men it is given to be great as statesmen.
while to others it is given to be fluent converse
tionalists under these circumstances.
Mr.. President, may be taking great liberty
in writing to you and touching upon your private
affairs, but noticed thateverybody else doing
it, and so have nerved myself up to write you,
having once been a married man myself, though
not, as | said, under the same circumstances.
When was married was only plain justice of
the peace, plodding quietly along and striving to
do my duty. You were then sheriff of your
county. Little did we think in those days that
now you would be freshly-married President
and the author of several pieces which have
been printed in the papers. Little did we think
then, when l was justice of the peace in Wv
oming and you a sheriff in New York, that TO-
day your timothy lawn wonld be kicked all to
pieces by your admring constituents while l
would be known and loved wherever the English
Language is tempered with.
So we have risen together, you to point from
which you may be easily observed and fayed
alive by the newspapers, while l am the same
pleasant. unassumiDg, gentlemanly friend of the
poor that was when only justice of the peace
and comparatively unknown.
l cannot close this letter without expressing a
wish that your married life may be a joyous one,
as the paper at Laramie has said, land that no
cloud may ever come to mar the horizon of your
welded bliss" This sentence is not my own. /
copy it verbatim from wedding notice of nv
own, written by Western journalist who is
now at the Old WOmanS Home
Mr. President hope you will not feel that I
have been too forward in writing to you per-
sonally over my own name. l mean to do what
is best for you. You can truly say that all l
have ever done in this way has been for your
good. / speak ia a plain way sometimes, but
don't beat about the bush. l see that you do
not want to have any engrossed bills sent to you
for a couple of weeks
That's the way was ] told all my creditors
to withhold theft engrossed bills during nv
honeymoon, as was otherwise engrossed. This
remark made me great many friends and
added to my large circle of creditors. 1t was
afterward printed in foreign paper and ex-
planned in d supplement of eight pages.
We are all pretty we'll here at home I may
go to Washington this fall if can sell block of
stock in the Paupers Dream, rich gold claim of
mine on Elk mountain. 1t is very rich claim,
but needs capital to develop it. This remark
is not original with me. | quote from an ex-
change)
If I do come over to Washington do not let
that make any difference in your plans If |
thought your wife would send out to the neigh
bors and borrow dishes and such things on my
account. would not go STEP
just stick your head out of the window and
whistle as soon as the Cabinet is gone, and / will
come up there and spend the evening
Remember that have not grown cold toward
you just because you have married You will
find me the kind of friend who will not desert
you just when you are in trouble Yours as
heretofore, BILL NYE
p. ST. send you to- day card receiver 1t
looks like silver Do not let your wife bear on
too hard when she polishes it. / was afraid you
might try to start into keeping house without a
cardreceiver, so l bought this yesterday When
l got married / forgot to buy a card -receiver,
and guess we would have frozen to death be-
fore we could have purchased one but friends
were more thoughtful, and there wore nine
of them among the gifts If you decide that it
would not be proper for you to receive presents,
you may return the card -receiyer to me put it
in the celar-way till come over there this fall
Il, n.