The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-03-11
THE BACHELOR PRESIDENT.
Cleveland Said to Bollcve that he is Des-
tined Never to Marry.
President Cleveland will never be

president Cleveland will never be a
married man-mark that" said Bufla.
lonian to your correspondent to day.
"Why? Well, 1 will tell you. He is q
social philosopher, or, in other words, he
philosophers on social matters. had a
long talk with him about household
affairs the other evening and l tell you
he has bushel of sense about them-all
practicable, too. But he won't marry.
He believes certain persons were born to
fill certain positions. He believes in
foreordination- least so far as being at
the head of a family is concerned"
"Does Mr.. Cleveland believe he was
born to be bachelor?"
"Precisely. He said it was all very
we'll for other people to get married and
raise families and all that, but as for
Grover Cleveland the idea was so foreign
to his tastes that he long ago concluded
to remain single man. The more he
saw and heard and, the more he thought
of it the more he was convinced of the
truth of the adage that 'our first thoughts
are our best thoughts He has mapped
out in his mind an ideal bachelor, maid
en-, wife, husband, and has his distinct
ideas about how they should live. My !!
what pious old husband he would make
if be would live up to his creed"
"Then he thinks there is reform in
being a husband?"
Eyes; he believes that the domesticity
of home is part of a mans religion
that there is something even more sacred
in the world than the church VOW, be-
cause in the former you link the life of
one with your own, while in the latter
YOU stand alone. Mr.. Cle7eland and his
sister both believe they must remain
single, but in this matter I think the
latter may be little selfish. There is
nothing selfish about him. He is very
companionable and he is generous. He
has system for everything, even to his
generosity, and guess be must be syste-
matte in his way of concluding that it
was decreed that he should be bache.
lor."
"Isn't he getting tired of life at the
White House?" inquired.
"s1r. Cleveland wouldn't get tired any.
where. He has the happiest way of ad,
justiug himself to the circumstances and
making himself comfortable and satisfied
of any man I ever saw. have gone
fishing with him up North. Now, peo'
may talk as much as they please, but the
man who can trudge along river bank
all day without catching fish and never
swear nor get drunk is good one. I
remember once to have walked fully ten
miles with him fishing, and along in the
afternoon, when we began to get tired
and had caught nothing, Mr.. Cleveland
drolled out in q way that made me roar
with laughter: 'Ob, let's sit down in
the shade and have little game and give
the fish rest. It's evident the suckers
are all away from home to o'day?'"
"The President bears up under his
burdens, does he not?"
"He tells me he has gained several
pounds on account of sitting so quietly
at his desk. suppose the thing he
he misses most is the exercise he was
used to even after he became Governor.
He was fond of putting his arm in that
of friend, after his six o'clock dinner,
and wandering away out on the unfre'
quented streets, and talking and staying
out till late. AS sat with him in the
White House the other evening, where
it was SO quiet you could hear a pin drop,
he exclaimed: 1T would seem like
Sunday here every day if 'twere not for
the Office. seekers I remarked that l
supposed the men who came to see about
offices were therefore q Godsend, when he
said: I think I prefer it to be Sun
day." Washington Letter to Pitsburg
Leader.