Show OUR OUK m aa Lini licit ri Lit cit tir our own lorr pi was Wash hi luFt i i ton on ay D 0 jt auty kiy 8 issa about members of aeu lan ter der post no 5 grind army of he republic of lynn muss mass devoin by ladles called billed on oil the 11 arm ul tho y the post pent firmed lik in front of ina na na tl clouat u 1 hotel 1 te 1 alb about u u t fa five e 10 k and I 1 of i marcheil u t i r et ie t i t up ip t ihn t it i avenue u t to 11 the 10 whito white house where they were mat last by the ladien they formed a hollow equate about tho the eul efla room fit find when hen tho president upp earod david walker the commander of the post stel estelled led to the front und find said Cuin of general lander post N no 0 5 I 1 propose three aheard for grover cleveland president of the tie united states stales the cheers were given lie heartily y when they had subsided mr cleveland e naoke kid as follows I 1 cau can only say bay to you gont gentlemen lowen that I 1 urn am glad to meet you here I 1 have hava extended to you Ms its courtesy as 09 I 1 have lately with much suro to other posts of the alie grand army I 1 of the be republic on oil their why home from visits to their southern friends i I 1 want baut you to understand that ibal I 1 have lost no confidence in the grand army of the republic as aa an organization iza tion notwithstanding recent occurrences curren coa ces to which it Is unnecessary luither further to allude it la Is incomprehensible hen sible to me that men who have risked their lives to savo save the gov brement should return home to abate one jot or tittle of the respect und and support which every good citizen owes owea to the government and the constituted 0 authorities I 1 greet you then as aa cili zemas well as veterans and I 1 shall be pleased to take you all by the hand th the or president r esl dent t then hen shook hand 8 with each of them as aa they marched arched in past in single file the post formed iu in lino line again in front of the white while house Ilous just ejust iu in time to see the president end and mrs cleveland enter their carriage and start for oak view they thou marched back to their hotel it la Is pretty well settled that the president will not go west this year since he be will not go to st lout louis his bis plans a lo 10 for visiting 1 other western cities t 1 e must be changed og an god I 1 learned at the white house yesterday that the only plans that the president bad made for leaving the capitol during the summer arid and autumn are those for his visit to Clin clinton toa N Y on an the of this month which will probably not con consume ume more than a weeks time and for his bis visit to atlanta in october next during the aa of the georgia state pair fair last baat week a paper not in wash logton contained the simple announcement no mrs airs fish Flab wife ofel of ex secretary hamilton fish died yesterday 11 no washington Washl neton paper contained even a paragraph on 1 the subject during tho the eight yes years ra bof of grants administration the papers slopped over with adulation of mrs fish and the Washl washington aglon correspondent was never tired though his readers may have beena been of descriptions of the reception and enter talu ment t of the social queen now the death of mrs fish falls to elicit an item we may moralize that thai social official life la in washington Is and and we may infer that the time will come indeed is noar when mrs whitney and her baby and even mrs mra cleveland will be edito the oblivion the peaceful death in life to which wiloh all good und and common place people belong the good intentions of senator ransom of north carolina in corning to to do the honors bonon of tho the capital to a party of edcur Blon alon lata lats from ill bid a state have been construed into having another purpose it Is now said that he comes to confer with the president about the vacant seat in the cabinet to be left by the pr probable resignation of secretary lamar there Is a greater necessity than ever to invent dearth of news this report may be the result of some such necessity and have no foundation but it will serve to revive an old story they tell senator at his home in north carolina some neighbors and were gathered one evening a few years ago when the conversa eon versa tion lion tell fell upon the then approaching n ordination orLi nation of a democratic candidate for or president ah I 1 senator said one of the visitors you ought to have the all like toi to soe see you in the white house Hu iMph said guld ft a small son of mr was present if father was waa it to go in the white house hold hed avo a mortgage on it before hold hed been there six months perhaps the senator from north carolina may transfer his intention of mortgaging the white house to the intel lor for department if he gets there mid ai the public lands laud sare are under the tha control of the secretary of the Inter forit might he be a dangerous experiment peri ment to make him a cabinet officer the presidents determination not to go west seems to meet with very general approval here mr cleveland la Is not the man to I 1 swing awin around the he circle make speeches for every balcony and interchange repartee WI with th the tha small boys in trees and on lorup posts andy johnson could do this bit but not grover cleveland |