Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-10
The NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Presidents Marriage The Chances
for the Dawes Sioux Reservation
RiIl-Other Dakota Matters.
Bureau correspondence Press and Dakotaian
Washington, June Git is hard to let
the wedding pass without some men
tional though realize that you want
Dakota matters, especially, from this
quarter. You will therefore pardon me
for taking up little space in referring
to the great marriage business which
has been going on here recently. You
see, and yet you don't see, accurate ac-
| counts of it in oil your teleg-aphio dis
patches. The gist of it all is this Grover
Cleveland was the guardian of q little
girl who was very good and very smart.
She liked her 'guardy," and sua upon
his knee from the time she was old
enough to remember anything. He took
fatherly interest in her. until few
years ago, when he suddenly awakened
| to the fact that she was young lady,
and he an old bachelor, who needed (if
he did not want wife He began to get
Jealous of the little girl, who had no par
| ticnlar beauty, but who had that pecu-
| liar and indescribable beauty which be-
longs to youth alone. He saw young
gentlemen making love to Eer, and he
got as jealous as 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 80. She didn't know what to
make of it, at first; for she had always
looked upon him as an older brother, or
as father. But, she knew that she
loved the man, and she didn't want to
say no, 30 she just waited awhile, and
let the other fellows slide. While she
was thinking it all over, the governor
became the president. Still she kept mp
mighty big thinking and finally con
clude1 that he was the fellow she
wanted. She told him SO; and 10, there
has been wedding in the white house
| Mr.. Cleveland probably knows as well
as any one else, that his bride is not q
beauty, in strict sense of the word.
But ne believes she is the girl he loves
and he don't care any more about the
opinion of people concerning his wife
than he does about the opinions OF his
administration In words, as we say far
out west, he is "as independent as hog
on ice." He didn't marry to suit any
one but himself, and he doesn't care a
continental what others think. That is
the true story; and the whole story. The
people will talk about, and write about
it, and print stories about it; but Mr.
and Mrs Cleveland don't care.
This IS the last week for the chances
of the Dawes bill. 1t is week OF slim
chances The bill will not pass. 1t is
i almost impossible for it to do 80. There
is so little time for its discussion by the
house and there are SO many things tc
discuss in it, in order TO satisfy the
average CONGRESSMAN, that it is hardly
possible for it to go through. Neverthe
less, Mayor Mcclure is working for the
bill as though he were confident o
winning the game although all the cards
seem to be running the other way.
is however life and death struggl,
!, with him. for if the reservation be no
opened, business at Pierre will stagnat,
and the men who have capital ther
i invested will feel like Jonsbs in tn
bellies of 80 many whales Chamberlain
has done almost nothing for the success
|. of the bill for She opening of the reserva
:; tioD. She has not pat her hand into he
) pocket as Pierre has, and ahe ought t.
! suffer seven years famine for her apathy
3 Pierre. and very few Others have take
I, an active part and interest in the mattel
! Chamberlain refused to pay cent t
r gentleman who visited her recently j
$ the matter, although she knew that i
: was as much TO her interest as to that
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