The morning call., 1892-05-15
LIVE WASHINGTON TOPICS.
The Statesmen Discussing Presidential
Chances.
Some Gossip About the Families Of the
Numerous Possibili-
ties.
Correspondence OF THE MORNING CALL

Just one month heEce the conventions
meet and at the rate the political pot boils
now, what can it do for the next four weeks
The Worlds Fair has not a penny In its
pocket to pay the day laborers at work on
the Enclosure. but the name OF Chicago only
suggests that Of Cleveland and Hill, and the
other poor patriots who are clamOring TO be
defeated in the November election. States
men sit and talk about the Presidential
chances, forgetful of rollcall and the bills
the clerk reads in tLat weary, mechanical
voice, all day at the Capitol, and they con-
tInue TO talk until bedtime, and repeat il all
over again the next day. No one adds to
the sum Of knowledge and no prophet is
absolutely believed. The leaders from all
parts Of the country come here 10 look over
the field, make up their minds and TO take
close survey of the candidates most in
danger Of the conventions lightning-since
they are nearly all OF them living in Wash
ingt0n.
This Washington. which is always so
ready to hail the rising sun, knows not
which way to turn-whO TO court and pro-
pitiate beforehand-and views bewildered
the numbers OF women who may preside IN
the White House for the next four years.
There is the dev0utly wished for contlnu-
anee Of the present OCCUPANTS first bocl-
ETY. has never found its welcome so cordial
and its opportunities in the White House so
many as during Mrs Harrison's stay
THE sHERMASs.
Senator and Mrs. Sherman receive more
cordial greetings every afternoon they drive
abroad But this is 30 new thing 10 them.
Before many another convention the hedg
ers have Yisbly warmed IN their feelings to
them, and after IS years Of public life at
Nc hot a,
know the beating OF the social pulse to a
nicely. Mrs. Sherman has gone her way
serene unruffled and unassuming through
too many political revolutions, cyclones and
earthquakes to be at ali disturbed by any
chances or possibilities. These years which
they have spent beside the White House,
knowing all its occupants. and some
OIL them very intimately, have shorn II
OF its glitter and dazzle. The record
OF Senator Sherman's career is sufficient
without the Presidency. Mrs. Sherman IS
punctllious 10 all matters Of courtesy and
etiquette, but society pleasures are to her
only the inevitable duties of her official
position Equally as quiet and retiring. as
simple and unaffected is her daughter, Miss
Mary sherman, fraglle-loOking young girl,
who, while assisting Mrs. Sherman in all
that deyolYes upon her socially, has never
gone in for the hard dancing, the real dis
sipatlOn and drHdgery Of society. OF the
three, Senator Sherman perhaps cares most
Tor society, Tor entertaining In his own
home and exercising hospitality. TO Mrs.
Sherman it has always seemed to be an
effort and an ordeal, and she shrinks from
everything On a large scale.
Mr.. AND MRS. LINCOLN.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lincoln are fOrtu-
nate in being away while their names are
being banded about as possibilities. But
both could come TO the White House pre-
pared by the associations and acquaintances
of half their lifetime. Mrs. LincoIn's father,
Senator Harlan of Iowa, left the Senate to
fill chair In the Lincoln Cabinet. The
two families were always intlmates, and
Robert Lincoln did half his counting in the
blue paTlor OF the White House during state
levees while the parents OF the two young
people were in the front line shaking hands
with that army Of people who used TO press
In to see Mr. Lincoln.
On the other side there are the Clevelands.
Even breathing the same air as MeAllis-
ters -Four Hundred cannot make Grover
one Of them. But Mrs. Cleveland is always
charming, and If she came back to The White