The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-02-03
Cleveland Longing for
Coming of March 4.
This Is the Statement Made
by Cabinet Officers.
He Is Making Efforts TO Clear the
Docket Of Important Cases.


four moro weeks of Grover. 1T Is difficult &c
realize that President Cleveland is within
short month of the end of his public ca
reer. Yet such is tho fact. In four week,
we shall have the Inauguration of q 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
i am told by his cabinet officers is anx
tously awaiting the day. He Is sincerely
glad to escape from the cares of office. He
looks forward To years OF ease and enjoy
mcnt. 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 occasionally do So He has for the
present abandoned his idCa of taking trlI
around the world. fancy however, that
will come later He docs not wish TO &C
at once, for the journey, II made so soor
after his retirement from Office, might look
like bid for acclaim. It might DC said
be was trying 20 initiate General Grants
tour around the world, with hopes of re
ceiving 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 pur
pose of receiving attention and exciting
curiosity would be distasteful to him.
CIeveisnd's Future.
One OF the members Of the cabinet tells
me Mr.. Cleveland has his own ideas as tC
the proper line of conduct for retired
president He does not think there is any
reason why an cx x-prcsident should strive
TO thrust himself into the background. Ht
sees no good reason why IA man who has
held the office of president should fail tc
take part in public affairs, in politics, and
such things, any more than man who
has held any other office Believing this,
tho president, when he has the ex before
his name, Is sure to be found active In
public affairs. l am told he will accept o
great many invitations TO public meetings,
TO conventions and dinners, and is likely
to develop into quite talkcr am also
told that he said few days ago:
II propose to have something to say in
politics too. No one need imagine that be
cause have been president have lost in
terest in the Democratic party"
II has not escaped notice here that Mr..
Cleveland, in arranging for his future,
carefully kept out of the state of New
York. just why ho should select New
Jersey as place Of residence is mystery
to most people. There arc politicians who
say he did not wish to go back 10 New York
to live because tho politics of that state IL
not in a satisfactory state, because there
are factions there, and the presidents fac
tion Is the smallerQ one. They add that If he
should decide TO emerge from the retirement
posed to rcposc and TO become an active
politician, perhaps candidate for office,
in Jersey he would have no difficulty in
getting or In doing pretty much what he
chose, while i'm New York there might bt
war from the jump. Whether or not ther,
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 n candidate for
Office.
Tho Cuban Question.
President Cleveland is making desper.
ate effort to close up all the important
parts of his work during the next foui
weeks. He has given instructions to his
cabinet officers to rush matters, and IL
possible To clear the docket Of all important
question is giving him the most ankle
ty. But tho president is still hopeful
that he will be able to accomplish some
thing tangible in the direction of bringing
about peaceful termination Of the You
bles in Cuba. AS write news comes that
Spain Is promulgating her reform scheme.
The Cubans say, and give facts and fig
ures 20 support their declarations, that,
Notwithstanding Spains apparent liberal
ity In conceding homo rule she really gives
UP nothing. The suffrage is not extended.
IL Is left within the circumscribed limits
which it has always been bound by. These
limits are SO narrow rs to amount of prop
erty, as 20 taxes paid, as To offices held,
etc, that few Cuhans are able To vote at
all. Such a small number of them arc able
10 exercise the right of suffrage that prac'
tically the Spaniards and their synpathiz.
crs elect all the officers They have done
so in the past in communities where the
Cubans outnumber tho Spaniards ten to
one, and there Is no reason To suppose that
they will not do 80 in the future. III spain
were really in earnest in desiring To give
Cuba homo rule, she would widen the suf
frago laws SO as to permit the Cubans to
govern their own country. For this reason
the Cuban leaders here are sure tho reform
scheme will not bc accepted by the insur-
gents, no matter what guarantees or pres
sure may be offered by the United States.
Social Activities.
From the social side, the present admin
istration Is not going ont in blaze OF
glory. 1t is the rule i'm Washington that
the receptions given hy n president who is
on the eve of retirement from Office are
moro generously attended than during the
middle of his term. This is explained by
the fact that nearly every ono wishes %
greet tho PRECEDENT and his wife once moro
before their departure. But in Mr.. Clcvc-
lands caro- the rule appears To work the
Other way. At the reception given last
wcck to tho judiciary and the congress the
small attendance Of judges OF the courts,
OF senators and Of representatives was al
most scundalous. There were by actual
count less than half dozen members of
the senate and house In the executive man
sion that evening. The reception was the
smallest IN point of attendance given I'm
the White House in recent years.