The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-30
THE PROPHETS LUCK.
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had as much fun as parcel of boys. Even
after Grover got to be governor he used to
run up to Buffalo to see us and we'd have
reunion. The only thing he was AFRAID
of then was the newspaper men: ne used
to dodge them to escape being inter
viewed
"A favorite resort of ours was Jake
acknowledgements where We used to so
Sunday nights for duck and sauerkraut.
Cleveland liked them both. and he also
liked old Jake Schenkelberger. and liked
him so well that he made him pension
agent, an office he still holds.
"A favorite game of Clevelrnd's was
pinochle' and he was great hand at 66,
sex -und-sexet' think the Germans call
it. He could eat wienerwurst and ham
sandwiches and play 'pinochle' ali night:
The old group of friends lost a well loved
member when Cleveland went into poll
tics.
Cleveland and Oscar Folsom were great
friends but very different sort of people.
Cleveland loved study. Folsom hated it.
| remember one day in Boyce's store, on
Main street. Folsom wanted to know some
thing about the charter on a certain point.
go and look it up, said Grover, and
then you'll remember what you learn
"Folsom turned with fine air of dis
dain and said. Il want you to understand
that practice law by ear. not by note
THAT story have heard Cleveland tell
hundred times. He thought it was
great joke. 1t was a clever saying, wasn't
it?" and Mr.. Miller went into a trance of
inward Renaissance and laughed over
some good story which he wouldn't tell.
1t is a matter of public gossip that Mr..
Miller might have had almost any Office
under Mr.. Cleveland had he wished, but
being modest man he didn't wish"
George Gorham is another man who
used to know Cleveland well, but rather as
a brother lawyer than as bosom friend,
like Mr.. Miller
81 remember the time the Erening Ners
was booming Cleveland for governor"
said he. "The nomination was to be made.
but Cleveland was out of town. up country
visiting his mother. who was very ill.
she had been sick long time and Cleve-
land spent SIX weeks by her side. was
in my Office opposite his here in the Weed
block one Sunday morning when Cleve-
land came in, grip in each hand, and
passing through the hall went into his
office. saw him through the open door.
Little did l think then l saw future
president of the United States. l hadn't
any great faith IN his election as governor.
went across the hall to see him in a few
minutes. He was sitting at his window
looking out on Main street.
Hello, Grovep / said; glad to see you
back. He turned and shook hands and
then we chatted on trivial subjects little
while and then went back to my Office
the same one we're sitting in now.
I'm few minutes Cleveland came in
and took chair. 'Gorham' said he, what
do you think of this nomination l hear
they are contemplating? The Nescs will
have it that must be the nominee and
what the Ne'os says goes, l suppose. Don't
you think it might be better if should
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GOVERNOR
"'No, DON'T said I. Il don't believe
my friend, Grover Cleveland. wants to pose
as the tail to any mans kite
HE thought minute and then said, 4
guess you are right; it must be the guber-
material nomination or nothing, and you
know l don't much care for it, either
II don't believe there was man alive
in those old days who had so little desire
for public Office as Cleveland. He not
only did not want it, he veritaby Stunned
1t, and think he had very little respect
for men who coveted such positions. l
used to often think of that when would
hear Of the reports OF rudeness shown by
President Cleveland to men who went to
him to ask for positions.
II knew him many years in many
phases. 1 remember one day during the
time he was mayor his coming into my
office in his shirt sleeves and asking my
$500 to the Grand Army of the Republic
for Fourth of July parade purposes. He
said he could find no law by which such
grant would be permissible, and yet,'
said he, suppose they'd never forgive
me if vetoed 1t. What would you do?'
"'Veto it, answered, and the veto was
duly made. l believe Cleveland then
headed subscription to raise the money.
"He used to come in here very often in
his shirt sleeves and chat, and l think it
was in this very room he conceived the
determination to interpose the veto to the
street cleaning contract steal, which might
very well be said to have been the making
of him politically.
II know he was great Sunday worker
and very thrifty man with money. 1
know he was poor when he became mayor,
poor when he became governor and poor
when he became president. presume he
saved something while in Washington.
but not as much as President Hayes, who
gave no entertainments at all and was
distinctly parsimonious. Cleveland had
stern sense of the value Of money and it
ran through all of his official life. He had
to economic when he was young and he
kept up the habit in mature years.
''Why, it was through Grover Cleveland
that / occupy this office we are in. l had
the middle room in the suite on Main
street when Bissell and Cleveland came
over here to join In partnership with with
Slcard. They wanted my room and the
room beyond it so as to have a range of
connected rooms. They deputed Mr..
Cleveland to breach the subject of their
desires to me- He was too delicate to
strike me with such proposition, so he
went at il in this way:-
George if you weren't occupying that
middle Office we could take that and run
right through. If you should ever want
to swap with Sicard and take his Office
across the hall let US know and we'll be
glad TO help you move. just to be neigh
borly. you know
"Weil, he got his center office and he
sat in it for years. Ex-Judge Brundage,
who came into the firm when Grover went
TO be president a the United States, oc-
cupies II now.
Surrogate Jacob Stern, who used TO be \
disciple of the disciples. says Mr.. Cleve-
land used to be a great joker in his less
serious moments. 81 remember going 20
see him once at Albany when he was
governor" said the surrogate, land the
governor said, I'D rather see q man from
Buffalo whom l know we'll even III ne was
only bill collector than n crowned head
from Europe, although he continued
parentheticaily, most of the Buffalo men
are deadheads,' referring to the notable
propensity of Buffalo people to travel ON
passes
81 have known Grover Cleveland since
he was 10 years old" said County Treas.
urer Saekett. "He was rugged in charac-
and yery firm in his