Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

According to the dispatche < from Washington President Cleveland is making plans for an extensive Western trip this summer: There is every reason to believe that the promise which the President recently made to the St. Louis delegates that he would, if he could, visit their city next fall will be kept, ana that the visit to that city will onlv be a comparatively small feature of a great and extensive trio which he has been planning and the arrangements for which will be consummated on his return to the White House. The President has never been in the West, but he has made up his mind of late that it will be to bis personal and political advantage to make an elaborate journey this year. His wife has persuaded him to do so as a matter of pleasure, and several Democratic politicians, chief among whom is Postmaster General Vilas, hav« urged him to do so. It was on the contemplation of such a trip as this that Mr. Cleveland made his promise to the Bt. Louis delegation. Tbe fact is that he intends to go a great deal farther in the direction of the setting of the sun than St. Louis. If the President can make his arrangements he will leave in the first week of August, and will probably remain away until the first of October. He will travel in a special car containing the members of his immediate household and two or three Cabinet officers. The intention is to go clear across the continent to the Pacific coast. The President is curious to explore the Territories along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and it is now on his pian to go as far as Portland, Oregon. It is probable that in going and coming on the long two months' journey the President and his party will visit Philadelp ria, Pittsburg, Chicago, 'St. Paul, possibly Portland and San Francisco, Omaha, St Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati. The President is determined that this journey shall be mode entirely at his personal expense. He does not intend to accept any favors, but will pay for everything he gets in the way of transportation and fiersonal service. The trip will cost him not ess than $3,500 for the sixty days over which it will extend. A leading member of the administration said that the President is anxious to know more about his country than he does, and that he often finds his imperfect knowledge in this respect a source of embarrassment. He has also been moved to make the journey in order to gratify his wife’s love of travel. He fears, however, that the South will be jealous of the fact that a Democratic President has gone into tbe West instead of spending more of his time in the Southern States. A Saranac Lake (N. Y.) dispatch of Saturday says: “The President, when asked about a story that he intended to make an extended Western tour this summer, said he was glad to learn that ho was con’emplating a possible visit to Alaska. He had never heard of it'befora”