The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-03

of his Democracy. Pullman step was
provided by the porter for the President to
stand on. That little carpeted step was
knocked from under him the moment Mr..
Cleveland stepped upon it and away the
crowd went with him His hat was gone in
another moment and in another he had
been swept ten feet from the car, whose in
mates were filled with hopeless alarm.
"Howdy, madam" the President would
cry, as he grasped an elderly woman's
hand; come along here, sonny" to boy,
as he would whirl him by, and so the scene
ran, until a way had been cleared back to
the car steps. The President quickly
mounted them, and then the train resumed
its journey. Its chief occupant was good
deal the worse for the hustling of the eager
mob He never again trusted himself to
the decorum of a station crowd. Afterward
he always greeted his demonstrative and
curious constituents from the car platform.
At times the crowds would become so un-
comfortable that no one could get his hand
up to the Presidents. Mrs. Cleveland soon
devised remedy for this choking. When
ever she saw the people packing together
TOO tightly or scufiiing too excitedly, she
would leave the Presidents side, and, going
into the car, would seat herself by a win
dow almost at the opposite end from the
President Instantly she would be discov-
cred, and here she is, - would never fail
THE PRESIDENTS HAND
would be ignored by those in reach of it,
and to all the people in the crowd the rival
sights presented a maddening perplexity.
The starting Of the train was always a
source of danger to the curious throngs and
OF worriment to Mrs. Cleveland. AT such
times she would show a most earnest solicit
tude for the safety of the people. The
women and children especially were the OBJ
Jects of her watchfulness, and often she
would cry to the train men: Take that
child away" or "PleaSe look out for that
ladyln The President would never take a
hand outstretcAed to him after the car was
in motion.
mo, no." he would say, "you must go
away now or somebody may be hurt. "
The hunger of the Westerners for
ghmpses and grasps was unbounded. In 1.-THE
Palmer House at Chicago men came to
where the President and Mrs. Cleveland
stood, with their hats crushed fiat, their
coats ripped up the backs, their collars torn
off, and the perspiration pouring down
their faces. Women lost their bonnets in
the mash, and the floor beneath was strewn
with ribbons, buttons and pins Some of
the women came up smilinglY with their
hair streaming over their shoulders
On the morning of the partys arrival in
the windy metropolis of the breezy West
Portable in the procession that, with Col.
Lamont, she broke the ranks and took a
circuitous route to the hotel. When they
came within a square of their destination
their carriage was stopped by the great
crowd that was waiting there to see the
President and his wife come. No one recog-
nized the occupants of the unattended car
riage. They left their seats in it and edged
their way through the crowd to State street,
but it did not seem possible to move another
step nearer the hotel.
MRS. CLEVELAND HEARD THE PEOPLE
on all sides discussing her and her husband,
and enjoyed the novelty of being the most
talked-about person III crowd of which
she was an unobserved part. In front of her
was cable car at a standStill. The con-
ductor was not trying to go ahead. Col.
| Lamont asked him if he could not carry
them a few yards down the track and leave
| them opposite the hotel entrance. A gruff
negative was the response to this request,
but when the highest card was played and
| Mrs. Clevelands name was mentioned the
startled and delighted conductor fairly
| lifted his new passengers aboard and set his
alarm gong at work furiously. In a
moment he g1ipped the cable, and the
blockade was ended He did not feel that
he had done his full duty until he had
struck and knocked over several obstruc-
tionists in the pathway from the car to the
| hotel door.
Wherever during the journey the Presi-
| dent discovered a scheme to make his recep-
| tiOns exclusive card affairs, he would
| smash the barriers without moments hes
| itation. Nothing in his public life impresses
him more deeply than the popular interest
in the Chief Magistrate While sitting on
the rear platform of his car he would often
be whirled over a cross-roqd, where, under
the familiar warning of: Look out for the
engine when the bell rings small group
of cheering men, women and children had
gathered from the neighboring farms. He
was always most demonstrative in his salu-
tations at such times | was told that tears
had more than once come TO his eyes in
response to these simple and honest mani
festations of the universal desire to see the
man who just now happens to wear the
most exalted dignity in the nation.
MORGAN
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