Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-06-10
CLEVELAND'S WOOING.
The Presidents Bride-Elect Pre-.
pairing to Sail for Home.
"reminiscences of White House Weddings
f the Past-Mrs. Fillmore as a School
Teacher In the Town of Miss Fol-
SONS Alma Mater.

Ih'cres' III Che rumoreu approaching
marriage of the President is stimulated
afresh by the announcement that the
Folsom party sail for home May 1S.
Many circumstances combine to make
Washington people accept the matri-
monial rumor as fact, the most def
mite OF which is Rev. William Cleve-
lands admission of it at Utica, as tele-
graphed to several papers. The Presi-
dents family are models of discretion.
This ministerial brother had gone on
in the even tenor of his way and made
no aggressive sign of his existence
since the few days visit of himself and
wife at the Inauguration. am rather
glad to have him turn up once more,
with his simple ''yes' in this matter,
about which none of us feel Indifferent.
1t is only natural that the President
should be annoyed to find himself
standing ''in the bright sunlight of
publicity" as an expectant bridegroom,
but it will be noticed that no denial of
the soft impeachment emanates from
the White House. After all, it is
good-natured and kindly interest which
the public feel in the wooing and we'd
ding of a White House bride
That touch of nature which makes
the whole world kin comes out strongly
at the merest hint of such prospect.
Who blames a church for taking
stock in its pastors affairs of hearth
And to all intents and purposes the Ma
ton is but larger parochial flock, to
whom the lady of the White House is
nearer and more chivalrously dear than
any pastors wife to the members of
his congregation. l know a prom
inent Republican Senator who went up
to the White House Saturday morning,
meaning to congratulate the President,
but the presence of numerous other
callers made it seem indelicate to do so,
and he forebore. Still another of that
grave body dropped your correspond
ent line on the first publicity of the
rumor inquiring eagerly as to the fact.
There is about as much capacity for
gentle gossip in the United States Sem
ate as in any respectable body of old
ladies | ever knew.
Caterers to the public taste under
stand well that the prospect of new
mistress of the Executive Mansion re-
wives interest in her predecessors from
the foundation of the Government, and
the article in one of your Sunday con-
temporaries on Presidents wives was
timely and readable, but it has several
material errors of statement. In Civ
ing three weddings as the sum total of
those celebrated in the White House,
it understates their number by five,
there being eight recorded in our most
trustworthy social chronicles. 1t states
that the marriage of President Mon
roe's youngest daughter to her cousin,
Samuel l., Gouverneur, was ''the first
White House wedding" distinction
which belongs to the marriage of Miss
Todd, relative of Mrs. Madison, in
1911, with John G. jackson, of Vir-
glnia, who served in six of the early
Congresses, four previous and two sub
sequent to this event. Martha Mon
roe and Samuel l.. Gouverneur cher
fathers private secretary for short
time) were married in the east parlor,
In March, 1920, the bride being only
seventeen. Thirty years later she was
laid beside her mother at Oak Hill,
Virginia, the Monroe homestead, un-
der large pine tree in the garden.
The widow of her son, Samuel l..
Gouverneur, Jr., resides here, much
respected. and chaperons two hand
some daughters in society.
John Quincy Adams, Jr., in 1926,
during the Administration of his father,
married in the White House his cousin,
Miss johnson. Jackson's Administra-
ton saw two weddings there, first that
OF Miss Lewis, of Nashville, with Mr..
Paqueot, of Martinique, subsequently
French Minister to the United States,
and later that of Miss Easten, the Pres
ldent's niece, to Mr.. Polk, of Tennes-
see, kinsman of later President.
Elizabeth, the third daughter of
PRESIDENT Tyler by his marriage with
that lovely lady who was the only one
among the Presidents wives to die in
the Executive Mansion, was married
IN her nineteenth year in the east
room, January 81, lS42, to William
Waller, of Williamsburg, Va. grand
son OF the first secretary of the Amer
ican Colonial Congress. The oldest
son oil this marriage welded sister OF
the second Mrs. jefferson Davis in the
Executive Mansion of the Confederate
states at Richmond. and her second
son was killed in fighting against the
Government, which would argue that
White House nuptials do not insure
loyal blood in their issue. OF Elizabeth
Tyler as bride. it is said by one who
was present: Lizzie looked surnas.
singly lovely in her wedding-dress and
long blonde-laee veil, her face LITERAL,