The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-01-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Presidents Dread of Being killed
--senator Voorhees, Aspirations.

The Presidents Dread of Being killed
--senator Voorhees, Aspirations.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29, 1888. 1t is no
longer denied by those occupying posi-
tions which give them an opportunity to
know that Mr.. Cleveland is a badly
frightened man. He fears that some
man made desperate by loss of employ
ment or failure in business will attempt
to kill him for revenge. 1t is because
of this fear that Mr.. Cleveland has tried
SO hard of late to prevent the publication
in advance of his movements outside of
the white house. Some weeks ago SER
wants were sent to Lakewood, N. J., to
put the Cleveland cottage in order and
ansinvitation was sent to Mrs. Perrine,
Mrs. Cleveland's mother, to join the
Clevelands there several days before
Christmas and to spend the holiday
week with them. Somebody leaked, and
the newspapers published the pro-
posed programme. It was then aban-
doned, the cottage closed and notice
given that the Clevelands would not go
to Lakewood at all this winter.
It was then arranged that the Cleve-
lands should quietly steal away Christ
mas night and occupy for few days the
suite of rooms which had Eeen engaged
for them at a Lakewood hotel. Some
body leaked again and the publication of
the plan broke it up. Then new trip
was arranged and carried out SO quickly
that no advance publication could be
made. But mark the sneaking manner
in which the president of the United
States left the white house, and COM
pare it with the idea of how a courageous
man would have done it. The arrange
ments were perfected in Mr.. Cleveland's
private Office, only those who were to be
his companions on the duck-shooting ex-
pedition-Secretaries Gresham and Car
Isle and Commander Robley D. Evans
of the navy-being present. The three
gentlemen named strolled carelessly out
of the front door of the white house and
entered carriage without being speci-
ally noticed. At about the same time
carriage drove to the rear of the white
house and man heavily armed stepped
out and held the door open while an
other man enveloped in an immense
ulster with a storm collar coming well up
under the brim of a big slouch hat
stepped hurridly inside. The first man
was one of the body guards who never
lose sight of Mr.. Cleveland when he
goes outside of the white house, and the
other was Mr.. Cleveland himself. The
carriage was then driven rapidly to the
wharf and Mr.. Cleveland joined his COM
panions who were in the first carriage,
aboard of light house tender which
steamed away in two minutes
after he stepped on its deck. If any
thing could be more absurd or more in
dicative of cowardice than these acts of
the president your correspondent is at
loss to name it.
A new candidate has entered the race
for the democratic nomination in 1896,
in the person of Senator Voorhees,, of
Indiana. 1t would seem to ordinary
minds that his course upon the silver
repeal bill, which angered both the silver
and the anti-silver democrats, would
have been sufficient to have destroyed
any hopes entertained by him, but the
mind of Senator Voorhees, is not an
ordinary one, and he doesn't see it that
way. He thinks his bill for the coinage
of the seigniorage in the treasury and
the purchase and coinage of SO ,000, 900
worth of silver a month will make
friends for him in the west; he has
scheme to catch the south by favoring
the repeal of the tax on state bank cur
rency, and he expects to get solid with
the wage-earners of all sections by OPP
posing the Cleveland tariff bill. Repre-
sentative Martin, of Indiana, chairman
of the house committee on invalid PEN
sions, is chief wet nurse for the boom in
the house, and he will as far as possible
second the efforts that Mr.. Voorhees,
proposes making to bind the soldier vote
to him by opposing the pension policy of
the administration. He calculates that
his opposition to civil service reform
will make friends for him among the
practical politicians of his party. In
short, he proposes to utilize all the
methods known to an experienced, ,dema-