Show OUR PRESIDENTS WORK In view of the fact that an eminent Washington physician has said that Grover Cleveland was killing himself by overwork a brief resume of the labor method of this faithful public servant will be pertinent In the case of Mr Cleveland Cleve-land the soverign is the people and the ruler the slave Constant and laborious attrition fill the measure of the time of our Democratic President Ninety percent per-cent of the people who visit the White House in search of official favors know that their mission is a doubtful one that there is no foundation for their demands And yet these people have all to be met and their claims investigated These investigations are patiently and conscientiously con-scientiously made by Mr Cleveland for I it is one of the chief aims of his Administration Ad-ministration to employ merit in the public service The ordinary man of business would not tolerate for an instant the drudgery which the President thus meets daily Even in the pursuit of personal gain very few men devote so many hours to labor and so few to rest and recreation as President Cleveland He takes nothing for granted Everything Every-thing is submitted personally to the minutest examination and the most laborious scrutiny No clerk or Cabinet officer decides for Mr Cleveland The President breakfasts privately at 8 a m The meal is hearty but plain After its discussion ivir Cleveland proceeds to his desk where his secretary has laid his private mail This mail and the morning papers occupy the Chief Executive until 10 oclock when the official day begins Mr Cleveland rarely uses the services of a stenographer Not only does he write all of his private correspondence but also many official letters His patient method is here illustrated by the fact that he not only addresses all of his own letters but also stamps them himself His inaugural address all of his messages the one hundred hun-dred and ten vetoes he has sent to Congress Con-gress and every published paper from his pen have been written I by his own hand many of them after midnight Mr Cleveland has an appetite appe-tite for work and only his laborious and patient method could bring results satisfactory to himself At 10 oclock in the morning official callers are admitted Matters of importance are quickly recognized recog-nized and business is transacted promptly and efficiently After the graver matters of the morning are ar ranged the President sees the lesser crowd which is always large The people who come to see him are seated around the library in the order of their arrival and the President either invites them to take a seat beside him or goes to them standing as he talks Some whose business calls for morecare ful consideration he asks to remain and see him privately and if his quick eye notes one who is evidently pressed for time the person so noted ia accorded an immediate audience Thus his time is spent until half after 1 oclock except on Cabinet days when the interviews close at noon Three times a week Mr Cleveland holds a public reception in the great East room where come those who are curious to see a President or any who may wish to pay their respects At these receptions a pleasant greeting I meets every one unless indeed some im portunate public smtor attempts to broach politics or office in which case a brusque and curt dismissal follows At half after one the President goes to luncheon after which he immediately I returns to his desk attending personally to official matters and conferring with his cabinet on current business At half past four or five oclock the President goes out to drive with Mrs Cleveland or Colonel Lamont and is usually absent an hour and a half or two hours Returning Re-turning from his drive he dines reads the evaning papers and then the Democratic Chief Executive returns this t-his official desk and remains therein in the service of the public until midnight Before he was married Mr Cleveland often worked until 2 or 3 oclock in the morning Mr Cleveland administration of the affairs of his high office is in marked contrast to those of his predecessors whose official lives have come under the observation of the present day and generation Grant delegated much of his authority to i subordinates and in consequence was called upon at the bar of public opinion to answer for the shortcomings of his camp followers Hayes slunk through the White House He assented to aU demands made upon him and purposely failed in the performance He had a book in which he entered all requests made him and then threw both book and I requests aside Garfield could refuse nothing His short executive career was made up of promises which were impossible of fullfilment Arthur came nearer to Mr Clevelands conscientious con-scientious standard than any of the Democratic Presidents immediate predecessors prede-cessors But Arthur was intensely sensitive sensi-tive as well as conscientious When it i was necessary to refuse he was more hurt than the unsuccessful applicant nnd making mountains out of the common molehills of Presidential Presi-dential life wasted his time and wore himself out in empty and needless expressions of regret Arthurs administrative admin-istrative career was courteously apologetic apolo-getic Grover Cleveland is of tougher fiber He can say no not like Grant because he is too taciturn to give utterance utter-ance to the word but because it is called for Mr Clevelands Hno is solidly based and final and like the man displays no unnecessary gilding A tWashington this is beginning to be thoroughly understood under-stood and cranks are daily bestowing less of their attention on the Chief Executive Ex-ecutive Mr Clevelands character appears ap-pears in strong colors in the events of the last days of the Fortyninth Congress His predecessors in office had the habit of going to the Capitol on the last day of the session to sign bills on faith as fast as Congress passed them This Mr Cleveland absolutely refused to do If Congress could not submit measures to him on time he would sign nothing he was refused an opportunity to carefully care-fully examine Consequently several bills failed to become laws It is Congress Con-gress however on whom the responsibility responsi-bility rests and not Mr Cleveland We venture the prediction that the next Congress Con-gress will give the Nations Democratic President ample opportunity to consider Congressional measures |