The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-24

spent the night. The next day the city was ex.
cited with the approaching ceremonies The
streets were crowded, but there was no military
parade and no procession. Mr.. Cleveland would
not allow it He walked from the executive
mansion, accompanied by Mr.. Bissell, TO the
capitol, mile distant, making one of the
throng that was going that way. He entered
the building unrecognized, went to the execu-
tive chamber where be was met by Governor
Cornell The moment the inaugural ceremony
was over he passed out into the large reception
ordered that the doors should be opened to ad-
NIT everybody. and when the hand-shak-
ing wss over he went Immediately
public event 50 Completely Stripped Ddj spa
OF fuss and feathers, and never was a more
radical change effected in the official regime of
been all sorts of delays and impediments in the
path 10 the governors room. Cards had TO be
sent up, ushers conducted citizens into ante
rooms and lett them to cool their heels on The
states tesselnted floor. But the moment Grover
Cleveland took pos session he issued an order to
admit any body at once who wished to see him.
his return to republican simplicity was never
abused
Iii, popular administration brought him into
such prominence that the Democracy began to
consider his availability IS "a candidate for the
presidency. On the morning o. July II, 1891, at
Chicago, he was nominated, receiving 6s3 votes
or l26 more than the necessary two-,birds.
Thomas A. Hendricks was nom mated for vice
president On August Is he wrote his
Weiikuown letter of acceptance, addressed
to Colonel William F. Vilas. In the election of
that year he received 23,005 more of the popular
vote than Blaine, and in the electoral college
he received pig votes The stirring incidents of
that campaign, including the Rev. Burchard
incident, need cot be rehearsed, as they are
familiar to all. On December Is, 1854, he
wrote his "civil service" letter, addressed
to the National Civil service Reform League
He was inaugurated March A. 1881. after repair
Ing 10 Washington City in the same Unostenta-
tious manner that hal Characterized his inau-
guration governor. He was the first Demo-
cratic occupant of the White House since the
doors had closed on James Buchanan in the
dark days OF 1851
Cleveland was renom mated by the ST. Louis
convention in 1855, with Alien q. Thurman
vice president. In the election he was defeated
by Ben jamin Harrison, whose mate the
ticket WAS Levi +. Morton. Cleveland received
100, 476 more OF the popular vote than Harrison,
but Harrison had 233 votes in the electoral COL
lege
On June ., 1886, Cleveland was married at the
White House TO Frances Folsom, daughter OF
his deceased friend and partner, Oscar Folsom,
OF Buffalo. She was the youngest mistress OF
the White House since the wife of Madison n al
left the maneion in 1916 Mrs. Cleveland was
born in 1864. she is not, strictly speaking, d
her face vastly better than beauty. None OF
the photographs does her justice, because the
greatest charm OF her lace is its con-
complexion. Mrs. Cleveland never Uses cos
metics She never has used them in her life.
The consequence is that she nGs the glowing.
healthy skin of girl She IL five feet ak incnes
in height and weighs about 1i0 pounds. She is
not the social diplomat that she is CT adted with
being. Diplomacy suggests something that is
not altogether open and honest, aud Mrs. Cieve
land Is as frank as a child Her success in So
ciety and her national popularity are due solely
to the TACT that Mrs. Cleveland is honestly fond
of people She is thoroughly unaffected
and very simple in ali her tastes She dislikes
display and notoriety quite as much as her hus-
band does. Since she mas come TO BE- one of the
principal figures in New York society there has
been. an evident desire on her part not to give
herself prominence in any way. Shehas her own
circle OF intimate friends gives her little teas and
luncheons, looks after her pretty house in
Madison avenue, and Is altogether happier, liv-
ing in this quiet way, than when as Mistress OF
the White House the eyes OF the world were up
On her.
Mrs. Cleveland is said to be thoroughly
womanly woman. No mistress of the White
House ever made the part OF the second floor
looking toward the Potomac as homelike she
did. One of the doorkeepers, who ap-
pointed by President Lincoln, and has held his
post ever since, although grzZled veteran of
the navy. can never SPEAK OF Mrs. Cleveland
without culver in mis- voice and sus picion of
tears in his eyes I'D rather shed SHAKE hands
with me-" he said once, than to have the finest
present that money could buy. Somehow il
used to make me warm ali over. I'm good Re-
publican, but tell you was sorry 10 see Mrs.
Cleveland go away and then suddenly turn
ing to look out the window the old man added:
II hope she'll be happy wherever she is-God
bless nerl'
/, Governor Cleveland has a vigorous, robust
constitution. He possesses a large frame, is in
cliued TO corpulelcy, has a nervous, sanguine
temperament, light complexion, thin brown
hair with a tendency to badness, and his gen.
eral makeup IS what ladies would properly de-
eide to be good looking.
In the early part of this year the Clevelands
were made happy by the advent of a daughter,
the now famous Baby Ruth.
The summer home of the ex-president is at
Gray Gables, BuZzsrd's Bay, Mass, and il wes
here that the president received the paws OF
his nomination.