The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-06
HOW CLEVELAND WAS GUARDED.
Such Preparations Never Before in This
Country for Protecting an Individual.

Such Preparations Never Before in This
Country for Protecting an Individual.
Washington Post. .
Chief Bell of the United States Secret
Service has denied the published story
that he, with a force of detectives, was to
guard General Harrison on his way from
Indianapolis to Washington. That revives
the memory of the precautions that were
taken for Mr.. Cleveland's safety on his
journey from Albany to Washington four
years agO. The true story of those precau-
tiOns and of some of the results has never
been printed. The knowledge of the facts
is still confined to q few men.
All the arrangements for the personal
safety of Mr.. Cleveland were given over to
Mr.. Byrnes of New York. No such prepara-
tons were ever before made in this country
Mr.. Cleveland started for Washington he
was surrounded by detectives in all sorts
of DISCUSSES. Not for a single moment was
it possible for an individual to approach
the President-elect without his every
When the time came for Mr.. Cleveland
to leave for Washington the force of detect
ives was increased, and throughout the
journey Hawkshaws surrounded him at
every turn. Every carriage which he
entered was driven by a detective; every
servant who waited upon him was a detect
i've.
On Inauguration day these precautions
were. III DOSSlDlt. again increased. a detect
i've drove the carriage in which MI. Cleve-
land and Mr.. Arthur rode down the avenue.
At the Capitol, as Mr.. Cleveland delivered
his inaugural address, he was completely
surrounded by, a Gordon of Inspector
the crowd and ON its outskirts. 1t is
scarcely an exaggeration to say that every
man within pistol shot of Mr.. Cleveland
waA watched.
NCt even the Gear of Russia, surrounded
- a of Nihtliofo a 70 foHo HE
life. was ever watched with more solicitude
than was the President of the United
States surrounded by a loyal people, with
no more genuine cause for alarm than
might aa'ise from the possible action of a
crank.
Whether Mr.. Cleveland was actually
alarmed is known only to himself. A theory
which has adherents is that Inspector
Byrnes, in lis frequent interviews with Mr..
Cleveland, had talked SO much to him of
the dangers which surrounded him that
apprehension was aroused III his mind.
People can see proof in the Presidents sub
sequent conduct that the feeling which
the detective excited in him did not dis
appear for a lonN time, if, indeed, IL is even
now wholly goue. Mr.. Cleveland is the
only President OF the United States who
has never been seen on foot on the streets
of Washington. Mr.. lincoln, in the troublous
times of the civil war, was occasionally
seen walking alone on the avenue.
He has been the most secluded, II not the
most exclusive, of the chief magistrates OF
the Nation. This fact has often been men
toned as a proof of his modesty and dis
inclination for display. Was it, possibly,
the result of an apprehension aroused by
Inspector Byrnes's warnings and sugges-
tons. and which has never been quite
effacedf
Another result of that astonishing use of
disguised detectives is more interesting in
that it deals not with conjecture, but with
facts, although they are here first made
known to the public. That result relates
to the bills for the detective service, which
bills were sent to the committee which had
charge of the inaugural ceremonies, and
included the most prominent Democrats of
was simply appalled,. The billl were en-
ormous, but they were paid.