Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-06-12
JOHN SMITH.
The Wedding and the Dawes Bill
and Soforth.

The Wedding and the Dawes Bill
and Soforth.
Special Correspondence of the I~SrER-OcEAN.l
WASHINGTON, June 9.-It is hard to let
the wedding pass without some mention,
although 1 realize that you want Dakota
matters, especially from this quarter.
You will therefore pardon me for taking
up a little space in referring to the great
marriage business which has been going
on here recently. You see and you don't
see accurate accounts of it in all your
t~elegraphic dispatches. The gist of it all
is this: Grover Cleveland was the
guardian Of little girl who was very
good and very smart. She liked her
"guardy," and sat upon his knee from the
time she was old enough to remember
anything. He took a fatherly interest
in her until a few years ago, when he
suddenly awakened to the fact that she
was a young lady and he an old bache-
lor, who needed (f he did not want) a
wife. He began to get jealous of the lit
tie girl who had no partic ular beauty,
but who had that peculiar and indescrib-
able beauty which belongs to youth
alone. He saw young gentlemen max
ing love to her and he got as jealous rs
he possibly could get, and he realized
that the only way to keep the fellows
away was to marry her himself. He
mustered up the courage to tell her so,
She didn't know what to make of it at
first for she had always looked upon
him as an older brother or as q father.
But she knew that she loved the man,
and she didn't want to say no, so she
Just waited awhile and let the other fell
lows slide. While she was thinking it
all over, the governor became the presi-
dent. Still she kept up q mighty big
thinking and finally concluded that he
was the fellow she wanted. She told
him so :; and 10, there has been a we'd
ding in the white house. Mr.. Cleveland
probably knows as well Us any one else
that his bride is not q beauty in a strict
sense of the word. But he believes she
is the girl he loves and he don't care
any more about the opinions of the
people concerning his wife than he
does about the opinions of the people
concerning Ills administration. In 9TH
er words, Is we say out west, he is
"independent as a hog on ice" He
didn't marry to suit anyone but himsel.
and doesn't care a continental what 9th.
ers think. That is the true story and
the whole story. The people will talk
about it. and write about and print sto'
ries about but Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland
don't care.
This is the last week for the chances
OF the Dawes bill. 1t is q week of slim
chances. The bill will not pass. 1t il
almost impossible for it to do 80. Their,
is so little time for its discussion by the
house and there are so many things tt
discuss in it, in order to satisfy the aver
age congressman, that it is hardly posi-
BILE for it to go through. Nevertheless
Mayor Mcclure is workingfor the bill a
though he were confident of winnin,
the game, although the cards seem to b
running the other way. 1t Is, however
a life and death struggle with him, for
the reservation is not opened business a
Pierre will stagnate and the men VIII
have capital there invested will feel lik'
Jonahs in the bellies of so many whales
} Chamberlain has done almost nothin,
for the success of the bill for the openin
of the reservation. She has not put lie
hand into her pocket as Pierre has, an
she ought to suffer seven years famin
!, fol- .her apathy. Pierre, and q very fe,
others, have taken IN active part an
interest in the matter. Chamberlai
, refused to pay Il cent to a gentlema
. who visited her recently in the matter
although she knew that it was as niue
to her interest as to that Of Pierre G
, any Of the other river towns. Such Sc
. fishness deserves q selfish reward. Th
failure to put those lazy, dirty, greasy
, worthless Indians on to smaller parcel
: of ground will work II great hardshi
. upon many deserving and working pee
: pie. If the congress doesn't care an
: more for the people Of Dakota than tina
t there ought to be a congress and il
. complexion ought to be changed.
The combination of my "politic:
3 puff machine has been broken and
:. Ifeel that l can assure you that it will M
f. soon be repaired. My paternal frien
L~ounsberry gave me some good advic
9 long ago, but | was not wise enough t
follow it. He said "Be a sutler, JOIN
8 and let the other fellows fight in tn
. ranks. If there are rocks to be throw
or bullets to be fired let others stand j
the way of them. Don't enlist to figl
e in the ranks. Be a sutler. Keep tn
9 kind of goods people will pay for an
keep the shop full of them, but he q su
Ter. When | was in the army the suite
made all the money and we poor devi
o got all the wounds. I'm in favor of til
suffer-" He was right. The man VIII
+ enters the political or journalistic aren
/ to battle for his friends get their &c!
pressions' Of gratitude. but they gene
e ally put him down as a fool whom the
can use, and they have no more graf
Q tude for his services than if he were
soldier in the ranks and they officer
winning laurels on his hard fighting
THE journalist who uses his brain, tim
and influence for others belongs to til
%fool-killer, and will be strangled soone
or later. After fifteen years expe,
fence as a generous and faithful SCI
til want of my friends l have just learne
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