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Show m iw tass IlMlIDlt'VV foam teEiB Personal feuds have JIIwrtM played Crawford and Clay. None of the four secured a majority of the electoral college, and the election thus devolved upon the House, with choice to be mado 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 decided to support Adams. But Clay's 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. few days before the time set for the election in the House a letter appeared in a Philadelphia newspaper, asserting that Clay had agreed to support Adams upon cordition that he be made Secretary of State. The same terms, the letter alleged, had been of fered to Jacksons friends; but none of them would descend to such mean The letter was barter and sale. anonymous, but purported to be writ-teby 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 same, would forthwith be called to the field. Two days later the letter was acknowledged by a witless member from Pennsylvania, Kremer by n same, who asserted that the statements he had made were true, and that be was ready to prove them. A duel with such a character was out of the question. Something, however, had to be 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, sending 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 Jackson's following should regard Clay's appointment as conclusive proof that By acsuch a deal had been made. cepting It Clay mado himself the victim of circumstantial evidence. As E PUBLIC EYE i.iEXiCO AGAIN HCNOR3 DIAZ. Veteran Statesman Freak dent Withcut Opposition, iortirbi Diae was, on July 1, for1 t of the remally public of Mexico. Tbe foruiul election of Il'iiuon Corral aa vice prexl-diof tbe republic waa also announced by the electors. The elect ion tick place two weeks ago. nnd it remained simply to announce Unit the returns us to the two The iMudoh'frs were unopposed. d .y following the election the Prifsi-dein u proclamation iiuiiiuu-.iv- ipEnaMDimaD litlcal annals. Everything that rancorous partisan intention could concoct was spread broadcast by the Jackson 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 even more momentous in Its consequences was the long battle between Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay. When Jackson first ran for the presidency, in 1824, the candidates opposing him were Adams, BEFORE SENATOR'S MARRIAGE CAUSES ASTONISHMENT AMONG FRIENDS cess and the victory of the democratic party. I do not want any of your wine, I told that sir, was 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 never forgot nor forgave this public insult. The quarrel thus begun ever after kept the two men apart, and three and twenty years later thwarted Thurman's highest ambition. In 1880 he was a candidate lor the presidential nomination before the democratic national convention. Had be had the unflinching support of the Ohio delegation, there is little doubt that ha To-blen- nt 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 capable of anything of which the latter could be accused, and he himself gave currency to the bargain and corruption cry, which was printed, 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 bis language, losing all restraint, became would have been tbe nominee. Ths the vehicle of raving wrath. The re- delegation was solid fur him on the sult of the contest was a signal trl- - first ballot. Then it broke and ths chances of his nomination vanished iuio thin air. Payne was behind the break. Thu delegates from the district in which his influence was supreme led it and were strongest In ths claim which stampeded the convention to a dark horse. As Ohio was then an October state and practically certain to go for Garfield, the result would be disastrous to the democratic cause. That argument defeated Thurman and nominated Hancock, and the revenge of Payne was complete. But the most dramatic of all the political feuds of the last forty years, both in its inception and its sequel, was that between Blaine and Itoscoe Conkling. Tbe two men entered tbe popular branch of Congress at about the same time, and both soon became Alexander Hamilton. There was, leaders in that body. however, little in common between abll-Ityumph for Jackson. Even Kentucky, them save tbe gift of Clays own state, went against him, Conkling made Blaine the oband Adams retired in the shadow of ject of his sarcasm whenever opporFour years later, tunity offered, and the member from deep humiliation. when Clay himself was a candidate Maine was prompt to retort In kind. against Jackson, he received but forty-nin- e Thus the enmity grew until, In the out of 286 electoral votes. course of one of their many encounIn 1880 the unrelenting animosity of ters, Blaine, stung to the quick by an Henry B. Payne alone prevented Allen unjust and ungenerous taunt, burst G. Thurman from being made the forth In an onslaught on his torments nominee of the democratic national or which wrought the House into a In 1857 Payne was a high pitch of excitement and marked convention. candidate for the democratic nomina- the beginning of a fierce struggle in tion for governor of Ohio. The con- the Republican party that ended in vention met in Columbus, and Thur- the humiliation of Conkling and the man, then fresh from a period of bril- defeat of Blaine for President Here liant service on the supreme bench of are Blaine's words, and they are a his state, had a friend in whose candi- - model of excoriation: As to the gentlemans cruel sarcasm, I hope he will not be too severe. Tbe contempt of that gentleman is so wilting, his haughty disdain, bis grandiloquent well, his majestic, superemfnent strut has overpowering turkey-gobble- r been so crushing to myself and all members of this House that I know It was an act of the greatest temerity - - Wife &1Z that inasmuch as there was no opposition to himself or Mr. Corral they were elected by the people, subject to the board of electors. The electors announced to the re-- , public and to the world that for slxi PQ&7EO years Furfirlo Diaz would be lresl-deand Ramon Corral vice president. The election was received: with general satisfaction throughout, the country. The election is taken, to mean that Corral will, in the near future, be the real ITcsidcnt, for President Diaz is aging rapidly and-- j la feeling the strain of office, and be Is going to retire in reality, though: lie will nominally be the President. In doing this ho will bo relieved of tho arduous duties of office and will-athe same time satisfy tho people, who love nnd liunor him. It is believed that Gov. Miguel A. Ahnmada of the state of Jalisco will: bo selected as Mr. Corral's successor ns minister of the luteriur. nt . large-minde- d mU&ttfA CZ40T SZP-5-. Clark's ward for many ycaii and who rosslp has many times snlil would become his wife stepped into that position on May 25, 1901, at Marseilles. France. Society was also surprised to learn that Mr. and Mrs. Clark have a baby two years old. Mrs. Clurk will soon sail for America. Society and the world of finance were astonished to learn that Miss Anna E. La Chappclle has been the wife of Senator William A. Clark of Montana for more than three years. The announcement was made in New York that the beautiful young French-Canadia- n girl who has been Senator RICH MEN SWEAR OFF TAXES. New York Millionaires Loath dacy for state treasurer be was much interested. Some of Payne's lieutenants, without his knowledge, promised Thurman the support of the Payne forces for his friend in return for the votes he controlled in the convention; but the Thurman candidate for treasurer failed at the last moment to receive the promised support of the to Part Donald Mitchell Would View Civilization From Afar. Donald K. Mitchell wax visited last week by a real estate agent who wished to buy the hillside property falling away bcTuro the house of the venerable author, with the city of Yale university at its foot and beyond the blue stretches of Long Island Ik Marvel was not disposed sound. to look with favor on the speculator's I know," ho said, "what that offer. would mean new buildings and fresh dirt und rolse and bustle. I have watched every single house that you see down there go up, be filled with people and take its place and part in life. I know Iheiu all; and many of them I have come almost to love. But I don't want civilization any nearer to me than It in. If it should climb up here 1 think I should leave this old home ami go back into the woods and wait them for the end that Is not very far away now. with Their Dollars. i Tbe completed tax rolls show that only five New Yorkers whose personality assessment was over $1,000,1)00 did not have their assessments process, by the swearing-of- f they are Andrew Carnegie, w hoso assessment of $5,000,000 Is tbe largest In the list; Russell Sage, who pays personal tax on $2,000,000 of property; Frederick Vanderbilt, assessed for $2,000,000; Alice Vanderbilt, and V. K. Vanderbilt, $1,000,-00The largest reduction was the cutting off of $1,700,000 from the $2,000,000 assessment of John Jacob Attor. Alfred G. Vundcrbilfs assessment was reduced from $1,5ihi,uuo to $250,000. J. F. Morgan's $Uuo,(j(I0 assessment was reduced to $100,000. The original assessment on personalAlly amounted to $4,589, 900.384. most every one Included in the list for assessment visited the office of the tax department during the time allowed for rectification of the records. The total of personalty left subject to tax after tbe swearing off Thurman . for ms to venture upon a controversy F. H. PLATT CRITICALLY ILL. Little Hope Is Held Out for Son of New York 8enator. Frank H. Platt, son of Senator Platt is still very sick of typhoid fever In his apartments In the An-- y, To-da- r r Sea-brig- Prefers Business Men to Lawyers. A Chicago ciiix'ii wh- occasionally has lit tin- naiy department in Washington says it is a great relief to find at tinof that bureau - - s - a man who j in-a- nut a lawyer. "I was there last week, he says, having occasion to ask Mr. Morton some questions, and he gave me direct answers and satisfactory answers. They were not couched In legal terms and hedged so thoroughly that they did not mean anything. The government stands In need of more business men In the cabinet and in other official posltiois. Men who arc not afraid to deride things arc the crying need of Is V ZMMT , j V.&L47T sonla, New York. It is feared that he cannot recover. He lias been 111 for eleven days and bis condition Is E"b'i that tbe two physicians iu attendance fear lie cannot be brought through the crisis. olrci-s.- r-0- Cardiral Manning Took Hint Sultan Is Too Progressive. Tbe sultan of Mmoi-i-"iluuigh only t 2., I'M, is ah' udy i;iu1e portly. Noiunli-'.aii'liiiitie "ii" d un of bit i N, lie r i:t his , ye-ir- r 1 qu.isi-.Iniiiiu- i ri am not a t aletiiiier my n't Vi me be u;e." At once cri- d from tintopmost. gal-er" "Trie;: your The immediately replied: tinhint. my friend. "Tha";!; you I will.'' Ard he did atid was a total cbslulr.ir cvi.-- after. doit or .it-a v-- i - - dm-tor!- i Iiti-m-i- fr -e everythin; that is for- irn and uhr.'n.udern. lb) has formed a band of o r 1"U musicians and bus a piano, which hud to lie tranxpoi ted from 1. arras h to Fez on Hie back of .i ciiuul. He even prefers, it is said, ilie member of Ills harem importel from ('ntoMaiitiiioblo to the native beauties. His nl tempts to ids wives lo wear corsets nnd Parisian gowns have, however, so far failed. - ilcfl-auc- i'-t- G. Pinkney, Spinster, of New; York, Has Much Money. Tbe richest spinster in New Yorkj city is Mary G. Pinkney. She Is said! to 'hove more money than Hetty! Green and certainly more than Helen! Gould. The reason that her name has never been connected with matrimonial gossip is that she Is 87 years old. Miss Pinkney lives in New York in tho winter time, having ilno apartments in the Hotel Rockingham, and in the summer she goes to her farm up in the Bronx. This farm is worth about $2,000,000. Sbe raises garden truck and flowers, and is said to ba; an excellent farmer. Sho does not go in mticli for charity, but she la not eccentric, nor parsimonious. Nearly all her relatives of the younger generation are socially prominent Like Russell Sage, she finds her chief pleasure In work. Believed to Have Oldest Pair in America. Julius II. and Junius N. Benham, probably the oldest twins in the United States, celebrated the elghty-ser-ent- h anniversary of their birth at a summer resort near Bridgeport, Conn., last week. They are natives of that state, in and near which place they own a good deal of property. Both arn more than G feet tall, stand very straight, and, except for their snow white hair and beards, there is nothing almut them to Indicate how many years they have lived. The Denhams come of long-livepeople, their gnimlfitthi-having lived to lie 94 years old. their father, Trueman umt her 96 Denham, was $8 and tln-iwhen death them, und their only brother died a llm ag- - of 86. James J. Hill says that Philander C. former attorney general, Knox, cleaned up $600,000 In the organisation of tbe United States Steel Corwith him. poration, which was a task of only a Then, referring to a chance news- few months. William Nelson Crompaper comparison of Conkling to well's fees are the biggest ever earned Henry Winter Davis, lately dead, he by a lawyer in this or any other councontinued: try. Eighteen years ago he was a young attorney In the ofThe gentleman took it seriously goggle-eye- d and it has given his strut additional fice of Algernon S. Sullivan, living In The resemblance Is a very modest home on Columbia pomposity. be Is great; It Is striking Hyperion to a Heights, New York. In In a lives oon, worth palace $3,000, satyr, Thersltes to Hercules, mud to street in winter ami rustimarble, dunghill to diamond, a singed Forty-nint- h cat to a Bengal tiger, a whipped pup- cates in a magnificent villa at In summer. Mr. Cromwell's fee py to a roaring lion. Shade of the mighty Davis, forgive the almost fur adjusting the Panama canal deal was $2,000,01.0. profanation of that jocose satire." There could be no reconciliation 8tuart Robscn Left Small Estate. after such an onslaught, and the batThe estate of Smart Hoi. son. the tle was to the death. Defeated for the Republican nomination by Conk- actor, whose real name was 11 nry W. ling and his friends in 187C and again Ctuart. has been appraised at $28,423 in 1880, Blaine in the latter year In personal property, according to a threw his following to his friend report filed In Now York by the official no real estate. Garfield, who, nominated and elected, appraisers. Ho owned made Blaine his secretary of state Tha property was mainly in cash in and official right hand. Then came the banks, the gross amount beimr $14,411, were made fur struggle over the New York patron- from which deductions n expenses admlristratii and debts age, which retired Conkling, and was His "i!uw, to $5.9'i; followed by the assassination of Gar- amounting am: one field. In 1884, when Blaine was final- Mary Doughirty Stuart Stuart tl.e inherited ly the formal choice of his party, daughter widow adm insRoseoe Conkling Conkling was no longer in politics, made no will and the but the sequel proved that Ills was ured tho estate. He died April 23, a matter of fact, l.e hesitated to acstill the will and power to strike a mortal blow. A defection of a few cept the plane, and finally assumed Its duties with reluctance. What chiefhundred voles In Conkllnqs home ly determine.! him was tl.o belief that county or Oneida gave that county, if he. ifi-- not ucf e; t it would be normally Republican, to Cleveland argued that c dared not. 1 h.s to and with it ti e idecoral vote or New than the York and the presidency. Conklin? Clay was more obnoxious James G. Blaine other horn of the dilemma. lie. therehad wiped out the score a?nln-- t Ids fore, took the alt' rr.ative of hold ancient enemy. Riifu.j Rockwell WU but ia so doing committed a message that Mr. Thurman did not son In Philadelphia Ledger. era of the beauties of t! e soil'll, and calamitous error. care for any of Mr. Payn's wine. In a though l.er husband's fri "y is rii h Lions Fond of Lavender. fort was made at the mo evldert surprise at this refusal, Payne A strung in to crossed the Linn Ids seat and tamers worldly good.: ami family pride from rose nomination. ct mont to rej frequently perfume Clay's wbli the Tbl fulling, the try of bargain and group of width Thurman was the cen- themselves with lavender. There Is, ths cannot rope fir.nnc'.nlly u.u I buy It Is said, no record of a linn ever cvtravagar.t Aiucrir iva win and tral acain was raised, figure. corruption" Tbe i.r. their will Maf friends I and attacked a way trust your having you trainer who had with It began ano'lur contest for the is Mr:. Jol.u V. 31a with me, Judge, taken tku precaution of using this belle's spoii.-.u- r presidency, n contort longer and more drink a bottle of wine suc to "Drink ; tur perfume. our po-ho in urbanely. said, scandalous than an) other 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 the opportunity to do fell in hie 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 back with the gruff Mary Connecticut Big Fees of Lawyers. CL RICHER THAN HETTY GREEN. TWINS 87 YEARS OLD. is $625,078,878. AUsn ! AUTHOR FOND OF SOLITUDE. 0. Henry B. Payne I t'or-und- e |