The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-14
A SOCIAL RUPTURH.
Mrs. Her bricks Thre ateD1ng to Sever
Relations With the White HOUSE.
Special Dispatch to the Times.


Special Dispatch to the Times.
/ WASHINGTON, May 1.-The first
formal essay of the President In the
social line las given rise to whisper of
Gisapprobation which Will doubtless
swell In volume as, the administration
wakes older, unless the Chief Magis-
trate sftonls very promptly submit
to a change of front and conform the
social regime of the Executive Man
sion to the claims of precedence for
INFLATED and preferred by the friends
of the Wife of, the Vice-P President.
While the American PEOPLE were read
ing with interest the accounts OF the
first public reception given at the
Executive Mansion a few days ago,
the President, through inadvertence
perhaps, planted the seeds of a
! social rupture between himself
!. and the Vice-President which may be
more troublesome than the setting
aside Of ''Joe" Mcdonald as member
| OF his official household. 1t was then
charged that while Mcdonald was the
unfortunate victim the principals in
the contest were the conjugal COM
panions of the amiahle Vice President
and the would be Cabinet Minister.
The Vice President carried the day,
and his excellent lady came to Wash
ington, leaving her rival to dwell in
the social obscurity of counsel's
wife in Hoosierdom.
Then came the first social event of
the Administration. The bachelor
President, instead of inviting the
Vice-President to preside. conferred
the honor upon the daughter Of his
Secretary of State. The fact is the
wife of the Vice-President was not
even invited; therefore, if she entered
the portals of the stately executive
pile,it would be on the simple plane of
American womanhood. But that
exalted station was not sufficient. |
This high=spirited dame stayed |
at home and the relations between the |
Chief Magistrate Of the nation and
the fifth wheel of the executive
machine have been sadly strained"
The offended lady of the Vice-Presi
Dental family threatens to sever |
social relations with the executive |
household and In a DAY or two will |
return to Indiana to await develop
ments and the formal Inauguration of |
the social season of 1885 6 at the |
national, capital.
The fact that the last President was
wifc;e; s; gave the Kentucky circle
always aggressive, q chance TO eIalt
Mrs Carlisle, the wife of the Speaker,
to the position of sort Of pretender |
to the social honers enj Dyed by Mrs.
Mary Arthur McElroy, the petite and
pretty sister of President Arthur, and
the presiding lady at the Executive
Mansion, during his ministration.
This claim gave. the kentuckians
chance to spread themselves, but no
member of the Cabinet, no foreign
diplomat nor any other official or sos
cial luminary eniVened the leveeS of
the Blue Grass matron.
The indignation expressed by the
friends OF Mrs. Hendricks over the
precedence given to Miss Bayard au-
gurs such eommotion in the social
world of Washington which only that
lady can get up and keep DIP. Should
Mr.. Carlisle get into the Speakers
chair, Kentucky will have nothing to
say in the next contest except
as an ally. The Phil Thomp-
son incident will afford au
ample reason for a coalition of social
forces. Meanwhile Miss Cleveland !
and Miss Bayard will have things
their own way; the social world of
the capital will continue to court the
of the Executive levees
despite the jealousies and Iivalries of
social side shows. The politicians
have had their hands full in trying to
force the President into their methods;
the old dowagers and social leaders
may encounter the same experience.