Bismarck Weekly Tribune

PURELY A PLOT.

Col. Lamont Declares the Alleged Interview With the President to be False.

Grover Feels Ashamed and Don't Like Senator Vest a Little Bit For Talking.

He Won't Be Trapped.

WASHINGTON, April 23.--The interview in a St. Louis paper between President Cleveland and a prominent democratic senator, in which the former is made to decline a renomination, is ridiculed here. On the day the dispatch was sent, Senators West, Vest and Cockrell, of Missouri, and Jones, of Arkansas, were at the white house. Cockrell is not gushing enough to slop over on such a subject, and Jones, of Arkansas, would not claim to have been taken into the president's confidence. A general guess as to the origin of the dispatch gives Senator Vest all the credit. This is the opinion as to its authorship at the white house. Colonel Lamont, of course, denies the alleged interview and says there is no occasion for the president to express himself at this time on the subject of renomination. The interview is very annoying to Mr. Cleveland, because it makes him appear a self-glorifier and conceited sprig. "Mr. Vest's secret dislike of the ways of the administration and his outward adulation of the president are well known. If the president ever declared that he was tired of being in office, he meant no more than other eminent office-holders have meant when they complained of the hardship of public duties. The interview is believed to be a job put up for the purpose of forcing Cleveland to commit himself. He refuses to be trapped.