Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-21
senator Stewards Threat.

"And l will do it, too" he adds, with a
significant thump of his brawny fist upon
his desk. IL have filed away for many
years the speeches of Republicans and Dem
ocrats in the house and senate, and | have
at my fingers end now about q cord of
speeches in favor of free silver made by
men who are now trying to urge this iniq-
uitOus measure through the senate. When
| get ready, | will send speech after speech
of this kind to the reading clerk, and when
this clerk drops down in his tracks ex-
hausted | will send for another clerk; when
he gives up, we shall have Il third II and
how are they going to take me Off my
feet and reach Il vote? If it were necessary
could keep this up all wia1cr and fill the
hospitals with reading clerks, bat { d0a't
think that will be necessary. Public opin-
ion is changing, and the people who a few
weeks ago were rampant for passage of this
bill to destroy silver are now turning the
other way. Wen beat them yet"
The White House Baby.
There is n great desire among the society
ONE at the capital to sec the new baby
at the White House, but as yet only "a few
of Mrs. Cleveland's intimate friends nave
had the pleasure OF beholding Baby Ruth's
sister. President Cleveland has been very
much annoyed by the notoriety given to
the little stranger. The president is very
much opposed to newspaper gossip about
the members of his family. Mrs. Cleye-
land agrees with her husband in this. and
professional g~oSsipets as well as women
newspaper correspondents find a very cold
welcome at the White House now. Mrs,
Cleveland declines to be interviewed even
by the best women writer's and deliberately
discourages and frowns down all efforts Ia
obtain facts and incidents from the Whire
House home circle.
The contrast between the White UouSe
now and under the late administration is
very marked. During the Harrison regime
the women correspondents and letter yrris-
ers were made welcome at the cyccItiye
mansion. Mrs. Harrison and her daughter
n daughter-in-law were always w~fIlingto
afford help and suggestions to the bright
and industrious women who furnish the
public with news about the o~ccupants of
the White House. While it cannot be said
the HaTrisons courted notoriety of this sort
they sensibly recognized the fact that pub-
lie interest in the presidential family is aI-
ways very keen, and that no harm whatpyer
can come from satisfying this curiosity.
President Cleveland, however. thinks
much Of this cariosily is unwholesome. and
that any qualification of it Is to he su,,-
pressed. He cannot see why the birth of a
baby at the White House could attract
any more attention than the bisth OF a baby
III any other home in the land. The gem
eral opinion here is that the policv Of the
Clevelands in tbs respect is rat her extreme
and that the efforts made 10 conceal facts
n prevent publicity are wholly unncces-
sary. So risiaiy are the lines drawn az the
White House that the women writer's who
have described, or pretended To describe.
the appearance of the new baby and ward
robe have been compelled to draw very
largely upon their i~maginations for facts
and details.