New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-06-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, June 4, 1886
The day of doubt and surmise is over
The President is married. and Mis-
Folsom is the head of the Nation. Low
will rule the court, the camp, tn,
! Grover, and the White House is nj
longer under the social control of an &C
centuated blue stocking spinster, bu
has for it's mistress a young woman
with French frocks.
! Last autumn while driving in Sol
dier's home park your correspondent
saw the President driving with Mrs
and Miss Folsom and his sister Mrs.
Hoyt. The President sat on the back
seat by Mrs. Folsom, and Miss Folsom
sat on the front seat directly facing him
and riding backward. [ thought then
that the President ought to have given
that pretty girl the better seat, but
| then it would not have been good form
for the President to ride backwards and
doubtless the distribution was the best
that could be attained.
The marriage ceremony took place
on Wednesday evening in the historic
and handsome blue room where the
President receives the Diplomatic re-
representatives. of the efete monarchies
and where he has so often stood in the
midst of throngs of diamond and gold
lace. bedizened guests. The White
House was garden of roses and Of
other flowers the names Of which you
will find in your Botany. There was
plenty of gas. The Marine band play
ed an original wedding march as the
President and his bride descended the
broad staircase and intoned q soft ac-
compartment to the words of the Rev.
Byron Sunderland who pronounced
them man and wife.
The wedding party was a small one.
It had been the intention Of the Presi-
dent to have big wedding and invite
everybody, but the death Of Miss Fol-
SONS grandfather made q change OF
program necessary, and the guests
were only few relatives Of the con-
tracing parties, and the members of
the Cabinet, except the Attorney Cen
eral, who has made VOW that he will
never wear a wedding (swallow tail
coaD garment. The Cabinet ladies and
also Col. and Mrs. Lamont were present.
After the wedding ceremony there
was collation. set in the state dining
room, which had been made cheerful
with tropical plants and wealth Of
art flowers. 1t was plain wedding
without parade for the public, and
without any exhibition of elaborate cos
tunes or gifts.
Mr.. Cleveland will be the first Presi-
dent OF the United States to have
home. No wife of q President has ever
felt that the White House was anything
except place where her husband and
herself were on exhibition to the mill
lions. No true woman could be salts
fed with it as a place in which to
spend the honeymoon. For years it
has been nothing but a public office. 1t
is not and cannot be home. MI.
Cleveland has appreciated this tact and
has provided himself with a place
where woman, who is married to
President of the great Republic, can
live part of the time, at least. the
life of an American wife. Good taste,
even decency, demands that the Presi-
dents private life should be separated
from his official duties, and hope that
the move of President Cleveland will
result in securing for all future Presi-
dents at the public expense, that which
Mr.. Cleveland has attained by his pur-
chase Of country home. Our Chief
Executive too has the proud satisfaction
Of supporting his wife from his own
earnings. Congress does not feel call
ed upon to appropriate dollar.
The President and Miss Folsom we're
overwhelmed with congratulations.
Never did prospective bride and bride
groom receive so many honest wishes
for their happiness and prosperity be.
fore. There is no shadow Of alloy in
them for the reason that the act has not
u trace Of partisanship, offensive or
otherwise, about it. The fact that ''all
the world loves q lover may have
something to do with it.
Representative Spriggs of New York
remarked the other day, ''the Presidents
to be congratulated, Miss Folsom is to
be congratulated and the country is to
be congratulated d. And | may add,
that the White House itself is to con-
graduated that its experience as Ba-
chelor's Hall is over and has resumed
its normal career of stately family
mansion.