Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1896 — The President as an Entertainer. [ARTICLE]

The President as an Entertainer.

“I recently saw a statement,” said a Washington gentleman, “that President Cleveland is tired of official life, and that the lonesomeness of his office is sometimes almost unbearable. I have been told that the President has few friends Intimate enough with him to sit and tell stories and have a good time. I know of two men, both of them commercial travelers, who find the latch string to the President’s home open to them- at all times. They are jolly good fellows, great hunters and fishermen, and when they go to see the President there is a long and interesting chat about the rod and line and sport with gun and dog. There is nothing which the President enjoys better than stories of this genuine sport, for which he has an unquenchable love. I also know that men who go to see the President for the pleasure of the visit and who are not In search of office are kindly received and warmly tx-eated. The President’s two terms In office have given him a perfect disgust of office hunters, and it ls a great reHel to the chief executive when some one visits him for purely personal reasons."