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Show r 5 BEFORE SENATOR S MARRIAGE CAUSES ASTONISHMENT AMONG FRIENDS PVBLIC EYE AGAIN HONORS Personal feuds have played their part, and a fateful one. In the history of the presidency. Had not Alexander Hamilton been the unyielding foe of Aaron Burr, the latter, and not Jefferson, would have succeeded the elder Adams; but t ven more momentous In Its consequences was the long battle between At drew Jackson and Henry Clay. When Jackson first ran for the presidency, m 1824, the candb dates opfiooing him were Adams, litic&l annals. Everything that rancorous partisan intention could concoct was spread broadcast by the Jackson Journals; nor were Clay and Adams the sole objects of the storm of slander. Charges of the most Infamous character were made against Jackson and inflamed his animosity against Adams and Clay to a degree that approached insanity. Jackson believed Clay callable of anything of whnh the latter could be art used, and he himself gave currency to the "bargain and cry, which was pruned, corruption placarded and harped upon throughout the land Clay, on the other hand, was unable on the stump to assume the line of dignified refutation; and his language, losing all restraint, became the vehicle of raving wrath. The result of the contest was a signal tri- - Veteran Statesman Presl dent Withcut Opposition. Boilin') 1.1.1 was, 011 July 1, for-r-u o cltcl-of the cess and the victory of the democratic party ln-it'o- v . not want any of your urine, I told that sir, w as the reply . damned waiter to say as much to you, And so saying, sir, a moment ago. Thurman turned his back abruptly on the man from Cleveland Payne nt ver foigot nor forgave this The quairi! thus begun public insult ever after Kept the two men apart, and three ami tvuntv years later thwarted '1 iiurroans highest ambition. In 1SSQ he was a c and. date lor the presidential nomination btfoie the democratic national convention. Had lie had the support ot tne Ohio delegation, there is little doubt that he would have been the nominee. The deKgation was solid for him on the lir- -t ballot. Then It broke and the chances of his nomination vanished into thin air Pay i e was behind the t break. The deb gates from the in which his influence was suit and won- strongest in the preme claim which stamp- ded the convention to a dark horse. As Ohio was then an October state and pi actually certain to go tor Gai field, the result would be disastrous to the dennx i at lc cause. That aigument dt tolled Thurman and nominated Hat cock, and the revenge of 1av lie vv as oiiiplc to. Bui the "most dramatic of all the political tends of the last forty years, both in Us inception and its sequel, was that between Blame and Hoscoe The two men entered the Colliding popular brant li of Congress at about the same tune, and both soon became leade-- s in that There was, body. however, little in common between them save the gitt of preeminent ability. Colliding made Blaine the object of Ins sale asm whenever oppor-tu- i lty offered, and the member from Maine was prompt to retort In kind Thus the enmity grew until, In the course of one of their many encounters, Blaine, stung to the quick by an unlust and ungenerous taunt, burst forth in an onslaught on lus tormentor which wrought the House into a high pitch of excitement and marked the lnginnug of a fitice struggle In the Kepublic.cn partv Cult elicit'd In the hunrliution of Conkl-nand the defeat of Blame for Pit xment. Here are Blame's words, and they are a model of c ( kition: As to the gentleman's cruel sarcasm, I hope he will not be too severe. The contempt of that gentleman Is so wilting, Ids haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, mpereminont, overpowering turkey go' filer strut has been so crti'l'lne to myself and all members of this House that I know It was an act of the gieatest temerity DIAZ. re-pi- '1 he c cf .u c c o formal elec-- 1 01 ct t! 1111. 11 Condi as v lee presi-ef- i t ot the was also anno it- - M I y the i n ctoi s file tkc'icui tc k j ! ic o two weeks a ;o and H letna ed Mini !y to "I do itjud'c r:is ys to the two The ui.cq ost d Co cite Poll tl e I'.esi- m a I 101 kuuauon that iht wcio tc r- do c I tw lit aunu t dls-tin- - b-- - Aaron Burr c Crawford and Clay. Nqne of the four secured a majority of the electoral college, and the election thus devolved upon the House, with choice to be made from the three candidates Adams, Crawford and Jackson who had received the most electoral votes. This debarred Clay, who, forced, as he expressed It, to choose betwen two evils, announced that he had deciaed to support Adams. But Clays determination no sooner became known than some of Jackson's friends attempted to drive him from it. The weapon used for this purpose recalls one of the most discreditable Incidents In our political history. A few dajs before the time set for the election In the Houe a letter appeared In a Philadelphia newspaper, asserting that Clay had agreed to support Adams upon cm dition that he be made Secretary cf State. The same terms, the letter alleged, had been of fered to Jackson's friends; hut none of them would descend to such mean The letter was barter and sale. anonymous, but purported to be written by a member of the House. Clay at once published a card, in which he pronounced the writer "a dastard and a liar," who, If he dared avow his name, would forthwith be called to the field. Two days later the letter was acknowledged by a witless member from Penrsvlvanla, Kremer by name, who asserted that the statements he had made were true, and that he was ready to prove them. A duel with such a character was out of the question. Something, however, had to he done, and Clay Immediately demanded an Investigation by a special committee of the House. Such a None committee was duly selected. of Its members had supported Clay for the presidency. Kremer promptly declared his willingness to meet the inquiry, but in th$ end the committee reported that he had declined to appear before It, seeding instead a communication In which he denied the power of the House to compel him to testify. No further action was taken, and In this shape, for the time being, the matter rested. Soon, however, came the election of Adams by the House followed quickly by his appointment of Clay as his SecThough It Is now retary of State. generally acknowledged that there has been no bargain between Adams and Clay, It was natural that, at the moment, the rank and file of Jacksons following should regard Clays appointment as cnnclus.ve proof that such a deal had been made By it Clav made himself the victim of circumstantial evidence. As Alexander Hamilton. for Jackson. Even Kentucky, Clay's own state, went against him, and Adams retired in the shadow of Four years later, deep humiliation when Clay himself was a randidate against Jackson, lie rocuverl but forty-ninout of 280 ele'toral votes. In 1SS0 the unrelenting animosity of Henry B. Payne alone prevented Allen G. Thurman from being made the nominee of the d moeratic national convention. In 1X37 Payne was a candidate for the democratic nomination lor governor ot Ohio. The convention met in Columbus, and Thurman, then fiesli from a period of brilliant service on th supreme bench of his state, had a fraud in whose candl- umph e c large-minde- 3 lvrs'''K r kM c v,- MEN RICH SWEAR OFF TAXES. New York Millionaires Loath to Part Mitchell Would View zation From Afar. Donald with Their Dollars. Th completed tax mile show that Only five New Yorkeis vvlio-- e pel wa-- i over Jl.iibU.OOO snu-ntd.d nut have thui process. by the swearing-oThey me Andrew Carnegie, whise mont of $r uiM'.uue) ix the laig"st in the list; Russell Sage, who pays personal tax on $2,0ciii,oi 0 of properlamkrbilt, y Frederick for $2,000,1)011, Alice Y.mdeibilt, and V K. Yanek bill1, $1 l1"1,-u . The lar. est it emt 1,011 was the cutting uK of $l,7i" i"iu fi 0111 the 82 UOfi.OOO asst suieiit d John Jacob soil-fUt- -e a-- as-?e- Civili- Donald k. Mite lie wa,x last week by a icmI (.date ucenl who wished in buy the hillside property falling away befoie the house of the v norable author, with the cRy of Yale imivt-rty at its foot and bejNynd the blue struc os ot Long Ixlahd Ik Maivtl was not disposed sound. to look with favor on the speculators offer. know, be said, "what that would mean -- new buiblings and frt xfi tint and lore anil bustle. 1 have watt lifil single- bouse that you leu down there go up, he filled with peoilo and like its plan anil part in Id". I know thun all, and have tome almost to many of tlem love lint I don t want civilization my in in r to me than it is. If it xlioul,1 (liuli up hue I think I should have tips old home- and go hack into t no wools am! wait tin 10 tor the end that is not vtiy far away now. RICHER THAN HETTY GREEN. Pinkney, Spinster, of New York, Has Much Money. The richest spinster in New York, city Is Mary G. Pinkney. She Is saidt (o' have more money than Hetty1 Green and certainly more than Helen' OtRild. The reason that her rame has never boon connected with matrimonial, gcyxsip is that she is 87 years old. Miss P Kknev lives in New York In the winter time, having fine apart- - iie-e-- v e 87 YEARS Hotel Buckingham, and she goes to her farm up Iri the Bronx. Tl is farm is worth She raises garden about $2,0V",fi)0. t ruck and flowers, arid is said to b an excellent fanner She does not go in much for charity, but she is nor parsimonious. Nearly all her relatives of the younger generfdke ation are soe tally prominent, Russell Sage, she finds her chief pleasure In work. N OLD. Connecticut Believed to Have Oldest Pair In America, jj Julius H ami Junius N. Bonham, Big Fees of Lawyers. probably the oldest twins In the UnitJames J. Hill says that Philander C. ed States, ceb biaied the eighty-seventformer Knox, attorney general, anniveisuiy o their birth at cleaned up $t00 000 In the orgam.a-fioresort near Bridgeport, Conn, of the I'nited States Steel Cor- last week. They are natives of that' state, in and near which poration, which was a task of only a William Nt Bon Cromfew months. place they own a good deal of propwells fees are the biggt xt t ver earned erty. Both an more than 6 foot tall, by1 a lawyer in tins or any other coun- stand very stra ght, and, except for try. Eighteen years ago he was a their snow white hair and beards, goggle-eyeyoung attorney in the of- there is nothing about thun to Indifice of Algernon S. Suilivan, living In cate' how many years they lave lived. on Columbia The Hi chains t erne of one lived pe a very mode-- t home Today he fa pie, till ir etan-i- fill r having lived t6 Heights, New Yoik worth $5 Otinmo, livts in a p tl ice In be fil years cd I, their lull ei, Trueman I tc r Burn, and Forty-nintr moll, it 96 whs kx an ?tr't in w,itr v 11a at S in a m gnificc whin eh 11M (rilled tin m, ami tiltdr t ll'a fee in sunin r Mr Cro-i.only brut! 01 died at t 0 age of 86. for adjusting the Panama canal deal was $2,0qti, (h i) Prefers Business Men to Lawyers. A (! '( ru cnui w lv casicuially has fin urn, a t the navy department Stuart Robscn Left Small Estate. Rnfixot the Si .ait in Y,f The estate id ngtun avs it m a great relief to find at tie Ik ail of that bureau mu wax actor, whose I was antulxod at $2X423 1 mtvn who is not a lawyer Stuart, has in personal proititv, at ct Mina to a there last, wtek, he savs, having report filed in Ncv York by C 0 official oroamoii to axle Mr. Morton some appraisers. He owned r.o reel fxtaie. questions, and he gave me direct an xatxf tetorv answers. They The property was ira'i ly ,11 ca-- h in hanks, the gross amou- t t it e $14 111, were rot couched in legal terms and from which debit tiers wrre n id" for he e'g il so thor- - uehly that they did debts and admit ti.itien q'puxes riot mi an aim! mg The government Hh wi'o.v, 'tarn1' n med of more business men amounting to $5, 'ox r in tl e calti'ie t and m ott r official Dougin rty S'uait rnd Mary : e Sturt t' p ie poxi'io! x Men "fit) are i,nt afraid daughter r ade no will and tin w dow ad-- t.is to t'e fide t nes tire t' crying need !,e Oil ( tired the extate. He died April 2'J, Of F. for me to venture upon a controversy with him. Then, referring to a chance newspaper comparison' of Conkling to Henry Winter Davis, lately dead, be continued: "The gentleman took It seriously and it has given his strut additional The Is pomposity. resemblance great; It is striking Hyperion to a satyr, Thersites to Hercules, mud to marble, dunghill to diamond, a singed cat to a Bengal tiger, a whipped puppy to a roaring lion. Shade of the mighty Davis, foigive the almost profanation of that jocose satire. There could be no reconciliation after such an onslaught, and the battle was to the death. Defeated for the Republican nomination by Conkling and his friends in 1876 and again In 1880, Blaine in the latter year threw his following to his friend Garfield, who, nominated and elected, made Blaine his secretary of state and official right hard. Then came the struggle over the New York patron age, which retired Conkling, and was followed by the assassination of Garfield. In 18S4, when Blaine was final ly the formal clone of his party Roscoe Conkllnf Conkling was no longer in politics, but the sequel proved that his was a matter of fail, he hesitated to acstill the will and power to strtke a cept the 'place, and finallv anMipied mortal blow. A defection of a few Its dnies with nluifMioo. What chiefhundred votes in Conl.ling's home ly determine 'him was the Relief that county of Oneida gave 'that county, he If he did no! ai q t it would normally Repu'db an, to Cleveland Tn.s do argued that le dai- - ! not and with it tie electoral vote of New York and the presidency. Clay was more ofioxious than the Con! line other horn of the mb mma. He, thereJames G. Blaln had wiped out the score aeaint hi? defof bold fore, took the altirndtive ancient enemy. Rufus Rockwell WU iance; but in so doing committed a message that Mr. Thurman did not son In Philadelphia Ledger. calamitous error. care for any of Mr. Paines wind. In Llon Fond of Lavender. evldert surprise at this refusal, Payne A strong effort was made at the mo, Lion lamers frequently perfume ment to rej ct Clay's nomination. rose from his seat and crossed to the This fRiling the cry of "bargain and group of which Thurman vas the cen- themselves with lavender. There U, It Is said, no record of a lion ever was again raised, and tral figure. corruption "I trust you and your friends will having attacked a trainer who had with It began another contest for the taken tho precaution of using this presidency, a conte- longer and more drink a bottle of wine with me. Judge," Drink, to au uo- - perfuma. scandalous than any other labour po-- j he said, urbanely. PLATT CRITICALLY ILL. H. Little Hope Is Held Out for New York Senator. Frank H. Platt, son of Platt, is still very sick of fever In his apartments in h Alien G. Thurman In the Humrm ments in the 1 TWINS G. Mary 1 ; was no If - AUTHOR FOND OF SOLITUDE. - Payne dacy for state treasurer lie was much interested. Sortie of Pavnee lieutenants, without his Knowledge, promised Thurman the support of the Payne foices for his frit ml in return for the votes be controlled in the convention; but the Thurman candidate for treasurer failed at the last moment to receive the promised support of the Payne following, and was defeated. Payne was not aware of the trick that had been played upon Thurman, but the latter, who scorned double dealing in any form, was quick to resent it. Within the hour th opportunity to do fell In hSs way. The convention ended, Payne went to a hotel for dinner, accompanied by some friends, and In jovial mood opened wine in celebration of his success. Presently Thurman and a few friends came In and took seats at an adjoining table. Payne bade the waiter carry a bottle of wine to the newcomers, but In a moment it came hack with the gruff Son of Senator typhoid the An- - d t h 1 c - , u-a- l . mvw 1 - ffi Cardinal London rs in ct- n m ,v it the Briti.h - B'nuty f I 1,- - v : F ,0 1, 1, r- Took Hint. tVe.xmll ter, t 'al ,'iiixt 'm r t, !I, low M )TiT.r,g cane to In a to-i- c " a ti A t nd 'll Ip t on of Manning nil London. nil It cm A.i r ", f ,n T Cm 3 ' - ( t f 1 ;c Sultan of p ' 11 let er Not w ir ; . Too Progress, ve. h - fie e ugh orly oil, p a,p a !., r;, H portly. amline lie oj " .ton of In pr-'-l- m i ire lop ice f r s everything that H fore go uni u'f t. oderti. Ha musihux filmed h band of v r cian? anil has a tano, which had to be transported from Earrah to Fez on the back of a camel. He even prefers, it is said, the membra of his harem impcutel from Conrtantinoplo to the native beauties. His attempts to persuade his wives to wear corsets anei Parisian gowns have, however, SO far failed. ,11,1 1 - a- - ve M.ljiet-- , e j 2, I? of MeiMK'i.t, li Tim ( narles Carroll of (iro'ton ml nu- -i t a ; r n .son "1 cf vv lusband .is the gr'-aIpuf e von re, fi - - t Cm of Mr,, p, i in", 'on that Carroll Charles ice w at I j reach. I t"d out as I 1, 1 .ot i f'arroll has alwavs loin one of the beauties v f t my suu'b, nd an not a tot si t S't n " be one At once ii rie h doi ti r although her husbands a voice mi m1 fiom the topmost gal-- j In worldly good ; and family pro's 'l ! she cannot cope fir.aur ally vvi'h the ic-- y : elji'tv your do, tor! extravagant Amer ems, who tpu t buy The cm nal immediately replied: Tha",!. yen for the hint, my friend. their way into Mayfiir. The Maryland Aik! h" did -- and was a tobelle's sponsor is Mrs. John V. Mac-uy- . I will c tal abstainer ever after. h r py-.e.an- , 03. New American z.-i- eonia, N, w Yoik. It is feared that Ikcannot recover. He has been ill for cl, ven days ami his cmd-- on is s in attbit tiie two tends: ce cannot be brought through tin or hip 1 e ( - (i Vanili toll s ment was it dm id limn $ I.'"1" 01 0 to J. P. Morgans $t,mi ( im as$250,000. title to $teii(iim sessment was The original a.s- - sine nt on ptisou.il-tAlamounted to $1 r,V),ln t, l!M most every one included In the fist fur assessment visited tin- oil. ct of the tax depai tim nt during the- - lime allowed for rt el.iie'atiem of the records. The total of personalty left Mibject to tax after the swearing off Is $625,078,878 - B. for many ycaiR and who gossip has many times said would become his wifi- stepped Into that position on Mav 25, l!mi, at Marseilles. Prance. Society was also ftnpiised to le.irq that Mr and Mrs. Clink have Mrs Clark a babv two years old will sc on sail tor America. Freucli-Cflnadia- Alfie-,- Henry Clarks ward Society and the world of finance were astonished to learn that Miss Anna E. I .a Cliappelle has been the1 Wife of Senator William A. Clark of Montana for mine than tin ft- years. The anne uticemc nt was made' in New York that the In autitul young girl who has been Senator , - a ryyr sms. liiiin or Mr. Coiral they veil elected bv tin people, subject to the boiud of cbetois. The electors announce d to the republic and to the vvoild that for slxi years Inrfirio Diaz would be President and Ramon Corral vice presiThe tdtchon was received dent. with gene nil sat ixfactlon throughout the country. The diction is taken to mean that (oiial will. In the near future, be the leal President, for President Diaz Is aging rapidly and Is feeling the strain of office, and he is going to red ire m reality, though he will nominally be the President. In doing ibis lie- will be relieved of the aidiiiius duties t f office and will at tin saint- time satisfy the people, who love and he, nor film. It Is believed that Gov. Miguel A. Ahum, ida ot the stale of Jaleco will be ielei ieii as Mr Corrals successor ns minlxte r of the Intel mr. lo 11 1 4 tliue that inaxinmh as -- 1 |