The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06
The Causes Leading to the Marriage and It's
Probable Effect on the Political Aspira-
tions of the Chief Magistrate.
The Wedding mparts Life and Activity
to the Matrimonial Market.
How the President and His Wife Spent the
Time Yesterday at Deer Park-A Fishing
neutrality-suspicious. kilograms.
THE wHITE-HoUsE WEDDING.

THE WHITE-HOUsE WEDDING.
The Presidents Most Popular Act-Its Prob
able Effect ON His Political Aspirations.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, June 5-Presdent Cleveland
never did more popular thing in his life than
when he got married. Everything commends
the act. and he has won thousands OF friends In
Washington. Many men and women Of broad
experience and bright minds have ventured The
assertion that if he has in his eye second Presi-
Dental term, his marriage will assist him moM
than anything else he could have DONE The
count of the long doubt which existed in the
minds of the people than it would otherwise have
been. It was q question for many weeks,
even after positive engagement was
announced. whether he really would get married,
because he was such confirmed bachelor. Now
that the thing is all over. and Grover Cleveland
is domestic man and at the head OF house
hold. people are talking about what kind of
husband he will make and what he will do
after he leaves his presidential Office, il
he does not get second term They are also
discussing the reasons for his marriage, al
though he was not in love with the girl, and
why she married him when there was such
great disparity between their ages--he about
fifty lone, she twenty two.
A prominent Buffalo Democrat who has
known Mr. Cleveland for many years. and who
has seen Cleveland grow up from childhood,
talking about the matter, said to-day: IT have
no doubt that, in arriving at an ultimate con-
clusion that he would marry and settled down
to steady life, the President looked all over
the problem as a man wonld question of busi-
ness. 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 largely man of destiny, and that his success
in all respects has been phenomenal, and he
has been cautious not TO take any step which he
feared would lose him his wonderful good fort
une. / remember, only few years ago, that
Grover Cleveland used to talk about the old
bachelors who got married in the crowd at Buff
falo. 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
riedp inquired your correspondent
There are two reasons, think, at the back
of it. First. Mr. Cleveland has grown tired Of
hunting chums At his old home he
helped to organize a number of social crowds
in fact, he was algays doing it-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 of any number of his COM
panions, but now he has arrived at an age when
he noes not want to keep up his habits, and he
wants to settle down. Mr.. Cleveland is
desirous of the enjoyment and the moral
influence Of a domestic household. Then,
he has before him what may YET
be long and brilliant public career. His mar
riage will give him settled condition in the
public mind, and will cease the wagging of scan
dalous tongues. Most all men who have been
pretty jolly in life become grave and serious if
they do not become reckless after marriage 1t
is my opinion that Mr. Cleveland will be much
better natured man hereafter, and that his pres
ence will be more enjoyable. / do not mean
that he has been a man whose presence was
burden to any one but he has been somewhat
sedate for years. and believe 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 marriage and rumors to that
end / spent an hour, the other day, looking
over the printed statements on Two points-frst,
who the President was engaged to. if any one,
and who he would marry, if any one second, tho
denials or evasons by the President himself Of
the charge that he was in love engaged.
There has been probably fifty columns of matter
printed in the leading newspapers of the country
about these two little things AT
time has tho President, it has been
observed, denied that he going to marry
anybody He has been as careful on this point
as he has not to acknowledge that he was really
engaged There has been as much as twenty
Ave columns of personal sketches Of Miss Folsom
printed, nearly one-third of which has been di-
rected to her school life. 1t is not to be won
dered at however, that there should be so much
talk about presidential marriage. because they
are the most unusual things the American peo-
pie have ever witnessed. 1t will be several
months, probably, before an entire cessation Of
this talk will come, and compilations of old
stories and history OF ther love affair will yet
be present until the people will have the whole
case at their tongues end.
In connection with the purchase of the Presi-
cents country home and the announcement
that the he does not intend to live there at any
time, comes the statement that the purchase
was made as real estate speculation.
and behind all is a combination of no small mag
nitude. am told that Secretary Whitney. who
has handsome and valuable country estate in