The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1903-05-06
HE ONLY SMILES
ON NEW BOOM
EX-PRESIDENT SEEMS PLEASED
WITH ATTENTIONS THAT HAVE
BEEN SHOWN HIM.
Steers Clear of Politics in Pleasant
interview With a Newspaper
Man.-Does Not Say lie is
Out of Public Life.


Princeton, May 5.-Former Pres
ident Grover Cleveland reached his
home yesterday evening somewhat ia
tigued by his journey from St. Louis,
but highly pleased with the demon
strative welcome accorded him in the
west. After he had dined he received
a reporter for the New York Herald in
the reception room of the comfortable
old-fashioned house in which he is liv-
ing happily here within a stones
throw of the Princeton University
campus
In the course of the pleasant con
versation which followed Mr.. Cleve-
land was given half dozen oppor-
tunities to declare his attitude toward
the presidential nomination of 1904,
but he skilfully parried all questions
bearing directly upon his own polit
ical future or that of his party.
II he regards himself as permanent
ly out of the field Of available pres
idential candidates he studiously re-
Trained from saying SO or even from
limiting that he prefers the classic re-
tirement of his Princeton. home to a
re-entrance into the activities OF public
life
Ii one might judge by the smile
with which Mr.. Cleveland greeted the
reporters frank reTArense he,
lsE.l.! we -. = g, g -
of Buffalo, as fairly placing him in the
field as the hope of the new Democ-
racy, then it is fair inference that Mr..
Cleveland regards himself-to use the
time-worn phrase of politics--as in
the hands of his friends.
Gratifying to Him. 3.
Mr.. Cleveland spoke with sincere
warmth of the magnitude of the st.
Louis Exposition that is to be and OF
the hearty spontaneity of the ovation
he received there last Thursday
Everywhere" he said, l met with
a cordial reception, which of course
could not be but gratifying to a man
who had long been out of public life.
AS for the prospects of the exposition,
they seem to me most flattering. The
enormous crowds that attended the
dedication ceremonies attest the great
interest the west is taking in, the en-
terprise The buildings give every
promise of being completed in time,
and it is evident already that the af-
fair is going to be an epoch marking
one in the grandeur Of its conception
and the magnitude of its scope.
1t was remarked by Mr. Cleveland
that here in the cast Democrats and
Republicans alike had been in the ire
mendous demonstration for him in ST.
Louis, hotbed, as it is, of the eXplod-
ed doctrines of Bryanism-a political
significance greater in its meaning
than a mere tribute to his PERSONAL
ty as former President OF the United
States.
"You must have observed was said
to him, that such an ovation in Mis-
souri, is now being interpreted as max
ing you a formidable factor in the next
Presidential campaign
The sage of Princeton smiled. as if
the suggestion were not at all dis
pleasing to him; but he was on his
guard in a moment.
"Natural to Americans"
'Oh, I attach little significance to
that" he said at is natural for
Americans to show their respect and
approval in these demonstrative ways
when they meet one who has held
high official posts of honor through
their preferment. OF course ii IS
pleasant and gratifying to be the OBJ
ject of such a spontaneous welcome
l next asked the former President
if he had seen The Herald of today, in
which he was hailed as the party lead
er, as the "sun OF the new Democra-
cy," for 1904.
'Yes, said Mr.. Cleveland, with an
other of his gracious smiles, which
seemed indicative of anything but dis
pleasure Yes, read that while on
the train today, but surely you cannot
expect me to discuss the fattering
tl..aa- Tat watz. friends ere partial
enough to say about me-
1T will occur to many Herald read