El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-08

Anxiety.
WASHINGTON, Feb. A. Special Only
four more weeks of Grover 1t is difficult
to realize that President Cleveland is with
in a short month of the end of his public
career. Yet such is the fact. In four weeks
we shall have the Inauguration of Il new
president In four weeks Mr.. Cleveland
will have an experience which no other
man has ever had-that of riding the sec
ond time to the capitol beside his successor
in the presidential Office Mr.. Cleveland, l
am told by his cabinet officers, is anxious
ly awaiting the day. He is sincerely glad
to escape from the cares of office. He looks
forward to years of Jase and enjoyment.
Mr.. Cleveland will practice law in quiet
way in New York city. He will resume
his old offices in William street, and there
act as counselor for his firm. He will not
often appear in court, though he may oc
caSlOnally do so. He has for the present
abandoned his idea of taking a trip around
the world. l fancy, however, that will
come later. He does not wish to go at
once, for the journey, if made SO soon after
his retirement from office, might look like
a bid for acclaim. 1t might be said he
was trying to initiate General Grant's tour
around the world, with hopes of receiving
similar attention from the crowned heads
and the great men of all nations. Mr..
Cleveland has little love for display. He
is without vanity. A tour for the purpose
of receiving attention and exciting curl
osity would be distasteful to him.
CIeveIand's Future.
One of the members of the cabinet tells
me Mr.. Cleveland has his own ideas as to the
proper line of conduct for retired presi-
dent He does not think there is any rea-
son why an eX-president should strive to
thrust himself into the background. He
sees no good reason why man who has
held the office of president should fail to
take part in public affairs, in politics and
such things any more than a man who has
held any other office Believing this the
president, when he has the ex before his
name, is sure to be found active in public
affairs. am told he will accept great
many invitations to public meetings, to
conventions and dinners, and is likely to
develop into quite Il talker. 1 am also told
that he said few days ago:
Il propose to have something to say in
politics too. No one need imagine that be-
cause have been president 1 have lost in
terest in the Democratic party"
1t has not escaped notice here that Mr..
Cleveland, in arranging for his future,
carefully kept out of the state of New York.
Just why he should select New Jersey as a
place of residence is Il mystery to most pco-
pie. There are politicians who say he did
not wish to go back to New York to live
because the politics of that state is not in
a satisfactory state, because there are fac
tions there, and the presidents faction is
the smaller one. They add that if he
should decide to emerge from the retire
ment in which an CX-president is popularity
supposed TO repCsC and to become active
politician, perhaps Il candidate for Office,
in Jersey he would have no difficulty i'll
getting or in doing pretty much what he
chose, while in New York there might be
war from the jump. Whether or not there
is any foundation for this gossip do not
know, but my personal opinion is that Mr..
Cleveland, while willing to take part in
public affairs, has not the slightest inten-
ton of ever again being a candidate for of
flee.