Show jJ c I Inc A r re ice I 4 Y he e l fl e m rj J kJ t w t A-t z r t 2 r A P ya by aY aYa a 1 a I B f fd d S Y Yr 1 Y P a kirI a t Roosevelt Lon worth SSI p tt k I f c 2 P S X f Ny Nya r ri i t it and her hery a af PU i y v By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HOUGH America Is a democracy be- be belIe Beres lIe es that It belle es firmly fir In that i phrase from the Declaration of In Independence Independence dependence which says all men meD are ted created free and equal l and has hns J f elected more than one President be- be bec because c cause cuse use he was as born born In i log cabin or some borne such humble dwelling place there h he hate e been times when It has erse to Intimations of ro royalty alty In af- af B government It has accepted tor dict J 6 sometImes despotism bene and not so-In so fact If not In ha name and other wars wa It has s departed rather far tradItion of pure democracy c IT 1 resist to the utmost the conferring of title as kang king or emperor upon Its but once upon a time It con con- cone e title of princess upon the gf bf a PresIdent and rejoIced In doing so son soa t oft n a time Alice daughter of Theodore Roosevelt w s is a sn c In j or of the American people quite quites s is much Ili Ilice ce of ales les Is a s symbol In the minds i rhe he reasons which could be as asI 1 2 I that fact are varIous J the test best one lies lD in the fact that th glee be I on n the scene at the turn of the cen as one 1 welter I ter has expressed It vas just beginning to feel Its so the public that idolized her fa t of Princess AlIce a heroine after the t own o desires and dreams And somehow v justified m in royalty ro alty j daughter of their President when hen n a nr ai r i later she went ent on a grand tour of fl and everywhere was s I ecel ed 11 like Ie n a b es an presented with Ith 11 latish Ish gifts explanation lIes In the fact a er father she was as n a t It h Id personality 1 rally attracts attention to Itself but buto o ains unspoIled by much lime lighting the common touch without conde- conde So the American n public accepts such ithe ty as one of our own kind and then 5 ly Iy c exalts alt It to i pedestal of hero wor Ivor It with Ith robes of royalty at attice Roosevelt elt was as a child she could lh s of tIme pretending I was a fiery cream colored like Cinderella's lIt tat at i boun bound to cotter er ast ast legIOns of dl st i d also able at WIll to turn Into some U different such as a princess with air or an e extremely martial m prince ething a bit prophetic about that for forr r rl 11 e e career she was s to CO corer COer er some of wa s to become a princess Lv by to talk with Ith CO cowboys boys and I kings Ings d empresses and gypsies to behold t of pageants and aDd all sorts of people So It s quIte appropriate that she I sheI t te e for the title of Be h ds Cron Cro ded flours IIO and t that book tt b by Chines Scribner s Sons cons gds Of of the crowded hours In the life or of orbi bins bi velt Long Longworth orth she who and was alit b inv nv Americans Ds Princess Alice N II tent a political history of the UnIt UnItt UnItIng t it U Ing ring the last quarter of a century as been a participant In n as well VeIl as asor or of f that history during that length of IOA ed Hours Is eten e more interestIng i of the great and near neal great greatt t s 8 encountered In that center of aU all allI I ity Washington D 0 Before her ft the White house she had mar for future polItical as Longworth n from eaker of the house of r an whose hose friendships among aU all po pomade made him unIque So as his wIfe pill Princess Alice Allce contInued long longer longer er had left the White House 11 lIce was Initiated Into politics x only oDly sIx Her lIer father was appoint vii servIle service commissioner antI she S th he White House to meet the first 0 was to the know small bearded later I 1 have a memory of Mrs q young re-young 10 ely and friendly of later Inter PI t Ladles Ladies are not Dot so 0 kindly but butU pInIons of a strong lity U kes as well as and likes Interest Interest- that as ai well ell as because they are arest st st hand knowledge the vivId memorIes of Princess I ed hours are arc of the SpanIsh Amer IL h was a sort of a glorIfied pIcnIc e e a other young J oung A vIsIt koff where her fathers father's lie was wai an exciting cIting experience In Inan an one At fourteen and a halt half e with one Rough nough Rider I wn was In ty eten en though I dId have a pig f dresses 0 I q dan p x Roosevelt The Hough hIder colonel returned to ride Into as governor of New York That was the first campaign In which tse e had harJ the Indescribable excitement e of our father runnIng for office It ItS was S t a purely personal and emotional Interest centered on m my fattier father lIe lIes w s as Right and Van the Democratic candIdate was as Wrong an and that was as all there was as to that Zhe of New York Is commonly regarded s is a stepping stone to the Presidency Pr nut But some ome of the trIed to sIdetrack Theodore Hoose elt b by sending hIm albeit un unwillingly willingly back to WashIngton s is rice Ice presIdent That meant more excitement for Princess AlIce and the other young noose I I remember how that night of the Inaugural ball I 1 perched on the arm of a chair lr untIl some some- someone someone one suggested that I ought not to as Mrs Irs Mc McKinley Kinley was as seated In It i fact of which I Is was s totally unaware are When I was as amused and hated by an occasion I was never ne very conscious of those whom I did not know who ho made up the occasIOn At father fathers s 0 own n Inauguration In In 1004 I stood In the front of the box and gesticulated exuberant greetings to the friends I In the cro crowd d until father rather firmly told me meto meto to Sit do down n I had not hid the slightest Idel tint that I was w making malIng i show sho of myself m elf I sat cat down feeling reproved and resentful ne He had been greeting gl friends whom horn he recognised In the cro crowd so so d-so why should I not do likewise Her lIer father s accession to the Presidency was no surprise to Alice Allee I I was as as superstitious as any swage sa age and as ruthless I had made malic from the time my father ther was as t d to the vIce presidency I made them as busIly and belie lS is any primitive e man so when hen the ne news nes s came though I had a proper sense of horror at the crime the assassination of rev lev on tho ch sIde on the sa swage age It brought i sense of fulfillment nut But she took tooh It so much as a matter m of course that she che af n t impressed by going to lIve In the bite hIte House IIo whose hoe InterIOr at that time was as both oth ugly l gl and She made her ber debut In the White House but the mustard colored carpet then on the East Bast room floor took some of the edge elige oft off her joy ily By this time the little pig tailed AlIce grown up Into Princess Alice Then carne came the coronation of KIng rd Edward In n England and tall talk of her goIng to England for the ent e nut But her family asked her not to go because there was so much absurd discussIon as to socIal precedence and aDd what hat rank she would take A trIp to the OrIent wIth a congressional l party headed by Howard Taft tl en secretary of war ar promised to be less spectacular as a atheme atheme theme for gossip but It got an aD amazing amount of newspaper ne space for those days It was n a series of delights for PrIncess Alice II She was presented to the emperor and empress of pan Japan and to the old empress do dowager ager of ChIna Bery B ery- ery where presents were showered upon her Alices loot lien her family called It when she brought It Ithome Ithome home trip had one Important result for Alice One of the members of the party was as young NIck worth Long of Ohio They were together a great deal and the amiable secretary of war ar was as much as to theIr status A plaint of hIs from time to time was Alice Allce I 1 think I ought to know Jr if you sou are engaged to Nick NIch to which my reply was as More or less Mr bar Secretary more or less and that ended that I had not been back long before Lefore hick Mcl and I decided that we were ere engaged I 1 felt shy and self conscIous about tellIng tellIng- the famIly Then Princess Alice became a White louse bride and the whole hole country 1 took a personal In Interest interest terest In every detaIl of her costume But she remembers that her hIde hIde- hIdeous hideous going away dress was ous and nd unbecoming I lime he wedding elidIng presents pre were ere about what any brIde might get only oDly more so bO the kaiser kaler sent a brae brall let wIth hIs miniature apparently hiving hwing forgotten that he had sent a bracelet wIth his miniature w hen Alice Allee chrIstened hIs yacht and the kIng of Italy sent a mos Ic table so large that she bIle has never found room to p i eats cholas Longworth display It In n an any house she his 11 used ed In since 1 the he campaign of l 1912 l was as a difficult one for this daughter of one leader le and wife fe of another Y who ho were going separate sep ways I although h that neter nc made the slightest difference In the per personal personal relatIOns of the t two 0 men nor their respect for each e other Nick Long Longworth orth stayed on the stand pat Republican sIde of the fence to save sa his Ius 0 own n political lIfe and thIs fact made It more or less Impossible for Alice to campaign openly for her father Throughout her ber fathers father's career she was as a loy- loy loyal al passIonate and complete partisan p of his Those who succeeded cd hIm In the tho PresIdency were somehow usurpers In fn her eyes SO when hen the break between Hoose and Tart Taft came she took something of a sat sa age delIght In the defeat of Tart Taft In 1012 She regarded hIm as an amI able and goo good n Collo follower Colloer er of her father who ho had been quite outside his rIghts when he had broken away from T Rs R's polIcies To To me there was somethIng not quIte pleas pleas- pleasIng pleasing Ing In the Idea of my dear Mr Taft as a great greatman man n and still less pleasing as a great PresIdent rubbed In by my In laws too I 1 There Theres w s is also an b unmistakable ule attitude on the part of members of hIs f family of here he Is where here he ought to be and we wc don t owe oe so very velY much to noose an anyway any y he could have got along quite as well wIthout him r rIn In reply to an imitation to the White House Inaugural lunch Mrs Long Longworth orth e to Mrs Irs Taft that she might not be able to attend IS as she was as seeing her father off orr for New York at noon Mrs Irs Taft TaCt said s most cn lIly illy that was all allrIght allright rIght and In case I did decIde to come she would send me a ticket so that I should be able aLle to get Into the WhIte House I flew fiew shouting houtIng to friends and aull relatives with Ith the news that I Is Iw w s is goIng to be allowed to have a ticket to per per- permIt permit mIt me mu to enter the White House I tery ery large capItal I Indeed I gave ga m myself self over to a pretty fair Imitation of mIschief mak- mak lag In Woodrow Wilson was her fathers father's political polItIc en- en enemy enemy emy so co he was her ber enemy too and so when hen PresIdent Wilson got back from I went ent down to the station and parked on the outskirts of the crowd It was a sparse crowd there was very ery little cheering I hurried uptown D to see how many people turned out to greet gleet hIm as he entered the White House grounds ground There were ere not more than two or three hundred I got ot out of my motor an and stood on the curbstone fingers crossed making the sIgn of the evil eye and saying A A murraIn Olf hIm a murraIn on hIm a murrain on hIm As for succeeding Presidents and administrations administrations Princess Alice has s some rather acid com com- comment comment ment Harding was not DOt a bad man ne Ho was just a slob CoolIdge changed the atmosphere of the White House from that of the back room of a speakeasy to that of a New parlor I should say that hIs Hoovers Hoover's nomInation was as owing to the huge publicIty or- or organizatIon organization that he and hIs supporters had buIlt up and kept on the job for hIm Time The present President Roosevelt has the name of Roosevelt marked facIal resemblance to Wll Wilson on and aDd no DO perceptible a erslon to say the least to many of the policies of Bryan The much talked 1 of Gann Longworth socIal war she lays la s to a foolish mIstake by newspapers pers It was as not a matter of Bochl precedence between her and aDd Mrs Gann she says but n a question as to whether Mrs Gunn Gann as hostess for VIce President Curtis should precede wh wises es of forel foreign n ambassadors dors at officIal and semI official cial dinner dimmer parties It seems beems to me the word ord hostess has lost Its meaning mennIng or acquired n a new one since It has become assocIated with Ith night nightclubs nightclubs clubs and hotels hotels she adds by way ay of comment The Immediate cause of the whole affair was as wasa asa a dinner at the Eugene Meyers n a dry house house- and Speaker Longworth seized upon the Glnn Ginn precedent re quarrel as an c cuse for not going to thIs dry lIry dinner party Of Of course obvIously there never was as any row now anyone who knew me was nas aware that rank and conventionality were ere things I al a s fled from and shirked I could not very well tell the true that story hick Mck hid seIzed a straw to avoId a dry dinner so all I could Sly say was I hare ha Ie really to do with It e by Western Por Union |