Show SILvEIITToTHE FORE t George Fred Williams Heroic Fight In Massachusetts PLANS OF THE GOLDBUGS + PROPOSE TO ELQrnrATE1 THE SILVER ISSUE Williams Will Hold Big Democratic Meeting at Boston at Which Prominent Silver Leaders Will SpeakSenator Heitfelds Birthday Birth-day Party and Miss Shoups Debut t Special to The Herald Washington Jan S = George Fred j Williams the New England silver Democratic Dem-ocratic leader has invited Representative Representa-tive Hartman of Montana Governor Osborne of Wyoming and other prominent prom-inent Democratic and silver leaders to address big Democratic meeting to beheld be-held in Boston early in February At this meeting it is proposed to once more plant the silver standard squarely at the front in New England It is fully understopd here < < that the gold Democrats Demo-crats of New England intend to make I a strong effort to cause an abandonment abandon-ment of the silver questionin the plat iocms of this year with a view to influencing in-fluencing action in next years national convention I It will ba remembered that the Connecticut Con-necticut Democratic state convention took this courser last year and the I Massachusetts gold Democrats hope to profit by their example in the conventions conven-tions this year Thus it appears that I the big Boston meeting may have an important bearing on the course of New England Democralts in the next national I na-tional convention There is no doubt of the positiveness with which the gentlemen gen-tlemen who will participate in the Boston j Bos-ton meeting will present the silver I question as the paramount and overshadowing j I I I over-shadowing issue of the next presidential i presiden-tial campaign They are all ardent silver I I sil-ver men and are all very anxious to I be of srvice to the gallant Williams in I his effort to keep silver to the fore in j New England The meeting is certain jto possess national significance owing i held to the conditions under which it will be I HEITFELDS BIRTHDAY On Jan 12 Senator Henry Heitfeld of Idaho will be 40 years old and a number num-ber of his friends have arranged a birthday dinner in his honor at the Hotel Chamberlin Among those who will be present on this occasion are Senators Sen-ators Shoup Mantle Turner Harris and Parkins Assistant Land Commissioner Commis-sioner Mondell General Stanton Colonel Colo-nel Ainsworth and Major Muhlenberg of the army Representative W C Jones of Washington and others well known in Washington life MISS SHOUPS DEBUT The Washington papers give extensive exten-sive accounts of the debut of Miss Laura Shoup at the Hotel Normandie The Star said A senatorial bud I bloomed last night The handsome re ce > ton given by Senator and Mrs Shoup in honor of their second daughters daugh-ters debut gave a delightful evening tp a large company of their friends and a ball for the younger set The main parlor at the Normandie was set with palms and the mantel massed with La France roses and maidenhair fern Senator and Mrs Shoup stood in front of this mantel to receive their guests to whom they presented their attractive attrac-tive young daughter The hostess was gowned in black lace and the debutante debu-tante wore a ball dress of white embroidered em-broidered chiffon and carried one of the big bouquets sent her of pink roses Miss Shoup Mr and Miss Henderson Mrs Ainsworth Mrs Richard A Johnson John-son Mrs Heywood Mrs Knapp Mrs Abner Taylor Mrs Charles C Bassett Miss Stellwag the Misses Stewart Miss Burdette Miss Evan > und Miss Gorman Gor-man formed the receiving party who met the guests in the different rooms of the parlor suite The dining room of the hotel was the ball room of the occasion aJd was lighted with shaded electric lights and adorned with palms and flowers In a smaller room adjoining ad-joining a buffet supper was served The company was large and included senators sena-tors and families especially the western west-ern and northwestern contingent as well as many others prominent in official offi-cial and resident circles |