St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-07
WHY CLEVELAND MARRIED..
Speculati0ns as to the Cause of His
Committing MaIrim Ony.

committing MairimOHy.
Special tn the Globe.
WASHINGTON, June 6.-Now that the
thing is all over and Grover Cleveland is a
married man and at the head of a house
hold, people are talking about what kind
of husband ne will make and what he
will do after ne leaves the presidential
Office if he does not get second term.
They are also discussing the reasons for his
marriage. as though he were not in love
with his girl, and why she married him
when there was such a great disparity be-
tween their ages-he about 81, she o. A
prominent Buffalo Democrat, who has
known Mr.. Cleveland for many years, and
who has seen Mrs. Cleveland grow up from
childhood, talking of the matter, said:
O 81 have no doubt that in arriving at an ul-
innate conclusian that he would marry and
settle down to a steady life the president
looked all over the problem as man would
a question of business He has looked into
the commercial aspect of the case as well as
the moral do not mean by this that he has
paused at any time TO consider whether he
would better
HIS FINANCIAL CONDITION
Immediately by his marriage, or that he was
selfish in any way, but he realizes that he is a
man of destiny, and that his success in all re-
spects has been phenomenal, and he has been
CduL4Ou5 IOI ~ LdhG any cLCp WHiCH
would lose him his wonderful good fortune.
remember only a few years ago that Grover
Cleveland used TO talk about the OLD bachelors
who got married in the crowd at Buffalo, and
always wished them well, but threw out some
remark about their being foolish, and about
their regretting it some day.
Why do you think the president got mar
ried!" inquired your correspondent.
'Ihere were two reasons, think, at the
back OF, it. First, Mr. Cleveland has grown
Trnd Of hmm inc ~.
home he helped to organize a number of
social crowds, in fact he was always doing e
and he has seen them drift away year by
year. keeping himself busy making new
friends and companions. While he was
young and vigorous he did not care very
much, and scarcely noticed the departure
from his
SCENES OF LEvITY
and enjoyment any number of his compan-
ions, but now he has arrived at AN age when
he does not want to keep up his habits,
and he wants to settle down. Mr.
Cleveland is DESTROYS of the enjoyment and
the moral influence of domestic household.
Then he has before him what may yet be a
long and brilliant public career. His marriage
will give MIN settled condition in the public
mind, and will cease the wagging of scandal
lous tongues. Most all men who have been
pretty jolly in life become grave and serious,
if they do not become reckless. after mar
rage. 1t is my opinion that Mr.. Cleveland
VIII be a much Differentiated man hereafter
and that his presence will be more enjoyable.
do not mean that he has been Il man whose
presence was burden to any one, but he has
been somewhat sedate for years, and be-
heve he will now get his second growth
Some of the Washington correspondents
have kept scrap-books Of newspaper gossip
which has been floating about for two
months on the point of the presidents mar
rage and rumOrs to that end. The GLOBE
correspondent spent an hour the other day
looking over the printed statements on two
points-frst, who the president was en-
gagged to, if any one, and
WHO HE WOULD MARRY,
if any one; second, the denials or evasions
by the president himself of the charge that
he was in love or engaged. There has
been probably fifty columns of matter
printed in the leading newspapers of the
country about these two little things At
no time has the president, it has been OBJ
served, denied that he was going to marry
anybody. He has been as careful on this
point as he was not to acknowledge that he
was really engaged. There has been as
much as twenty-five columns of personal
sketches of Miss Folsom printed, nearly
One-third of which has been devoted to her
school life.