A Secret Life_ The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland - Charles Lachman [181]
293. “Don’t disturb me unless something decisive,” Summers, 9.
293. “Suspiciously slow,” ibid.
293. “The only hope of our opponents is a fraudulent count,” William Gorham Rice and Francis Lynde Stetson, Was New York’s Vote Stolen? (New York: The North American Review Publishing Co., 1914), 83.
295. “I believe I have been elected president,” Summers, 11.
295. “Cleveland is elected,” King declared. Horatio King to his father, also named Horatio King, 8 November 1884, Archives and Special Collections, Waidner-Spahr Library, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, MC1999.9, Box 1, File 11.
295. The air was so thick with tobacco smoke. New York Times, 14 November 1884.
296. “An ass in the shape of a preacher,” Summers, xi; 296; 301.
296. “Opened his mouth and swallowed a presidency,” Summers, 282.
297. “It’s quite amusing to see how profuse,” GC to Bissell, 13 November 1884, Nevins, Letters, 47–48.
298. “I can see no pleasure in it and no satisfaction,” ibid., 13 November 1884, 47–48.
298. “I feel this moment I would never go there again,” ibid., 5 December 1884, 50–51.
299. “I wish you a very ‘Merry Christmas,’” Ibid., 25 December, 51.
15. ROSE
301. Rose was a creature of rigid habit. Washington Post, 14 January 1887.
301. Grover Cleveland’s announcement naming his sister. Ibid., 28 December 1884; 18 January 1885.
302. She could conjugate ancient Greek verbs. Ibid., 14 January 1887, quoting Laura C. Holloway’s The Ladies of the White House.
302. “Well, Dan, if you won’t go, I won’t, that’s all,” Nevins, 198.
303. “How d’ye do, Mr. President?” Washington Post, 4 March 1885.
304. Rose moved into a bedroom on the second floor. Ibid., 26 April 1885.
305. Mrs. Hendricks won the evening’s accolades. Ibid., 5 March 1885.
305. Rose held her first reception. Ibid., 8 March 1885.
306. When Rose invited a delegation: Ibid, 14 March, 1885.
306. “It is only a strong man who can keep his wine glass upside down,” ibid., 10 May 1885, quoting Rose Cleveland’s 1882 article from Youth’s Temperance Banner.
307. Ms. Annie Van Vechten arrived at the White House, ibid., 23 April 1885.
308. “I can’t realize it is Washington,” Lewis L. Gould, ed., American First Ladies (New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1996), 247. Sue Severn, whose husband, William I. Severn, had researched an unfinished biography of Frances Folsom Cleveland and conducted extensive interviews with her youngest son, Francis G. Cleveland, and other family members, wrote the chapter.
308. They playfully calculated how many times they had to walk from one end. Robar, 15.
308. “Very romantic,” Robar, 17.
309. “Decided favorite,” Washington Post, 29 March 1885.
309. “She’ll do! She’ll do!” Nevins, 311.
309. “Handsome matron,” Washington Post, 30 May 1885.
309. “How perfectly ridiculous it is to talk of the president,” ibid., 30 May 1886.
310. “Rumors afloat,” ibid., 17 November 1884.
310. “Have you come to think that your oldest grandchild,” Frances Folsom to Col. John Folsom, 23 March 1885, Nevins Collection, Columbia University, Box 106.
312. It was not unusual for President Cleveland to answer the phone. Alyn Brodsky, Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 157.
312. “That man who cooks,” New York Times, 3 April 1911. The quote is from Alexander Fortin’s obituary.
313. “Plenty more in the box,” Washington Post, 7 April 1885.
313. “Capable of great development,” ibid., 9 April 1885; 6 June 1886 (“Echoes of the Wedding.”)
314. Equated upper-crust society to a salivating and servile dog. Ibid., 10 May 1885.
314. “Rather terrifying,” Nevins, 300.
314. “Romanist peril” and “annoying,” ibid.
315. “She’d had a pretty hard time here,” GC to Mary Cleveland Hoyt, 30 April 1885, Nevins, Letters, 63.
315. This “scurrilous” story. Washington Post, 26 January 1939, from an interview with Charles A. Hamilton.
16. THE BRIDE
317. Frances and her classmates planted the ivy. Robar, 16.
318. “Frank made a hero out of him. Dunlap, 4.
318. Not subjecting