Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-05
SOME SOCIETY GOSSIP.
airs. Hendricks Alleged Threat to Sever
Relations with the White House.


From the Phi1adelDRia Times.
WASHINGTON, May 3.-The first forma
essay of the President in the social line
has given rise to a whisper of disapproba,
ton, which will doubtless swell in vol
ume as the administration grows older,
unless the Chief Magistrate should very
promptly submit to a change OF front and
conform the social regime of the execu-
tive mansion to the claims of precedence
formulated and preferred by the friends
of the wife Of the Vice Presi-
cut While the American peo-
~ were reading with ntesest
the accounts Of the first public reception
given at the executive mansion lew
DAYS AGO, the President through mad
vertence perhaps, planted the SEEDS OF
social rupture between himself ana the
Vice President. which may be more
troublesome than the setting aside OF
"JOe' Mcdonald as a member OF his Off
cial household. Ii was then charged that
while Mcdonald was the unfortunate
victim the principals in the contest were
the coujugal companions OF the amlaole
Vice President and the would-be Cabinet
Minister. The Vice President carried
the dav. and his excellent lady came to
in the social obscurity of cOunseFs vile
in Ho0sierdom.
Then came the first social event OF the
administration. The bachelor President,
instead of inviting the wife of the Wee
President to preside, conferred that honor
upon the daughter of his Secretary OF
State. The fact is the wife OF the Vice
President was not even invited; therefore,
il she entered the portals of the stately
NV N1xr1 v,s4a
simple plane of American woman
hood. But that exalted station was not
sufficient. This nigh-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 Presidential family threatens
to sever social relations with the eXecu-
tive household. and in a dav or two VIII
return to Indiana to await developments
and the formal inauguration of the so 'ial
season Of 1886 at the national capital.
The fact that the last President was
Wifeless gave the Kentucky circle, always
aggressive. a chance to exait Mrs. Car
Isle. the wife of the Speaker, to the posi-
ton of sort Of pretender to the social
hon0rs ENJOYED by Mrs. Mary Arthur Nc
Elroy the petite and pretty sister OF
President Arthur ana the presiding lady
ministratiOn. This claim gave the Ken
tuckIans a chance 70 spread themselves,
but no member OF the Cabinet, no foreign
diplomat nor any other official or social
luminary enliyened the leVees OF the Blue
Grass matrOn.
The INDIGNATION expressed by the friends
Of Mrs. Hendricks over the precedence
given to Miss Bayard augurs such a COM
motion in the social world of WASHINGTON
which only that lady can get up and keep
up. Should Mr.. Carlisle get into the
Speakers chair, Kentucky will have moth
ing to say in the next contest except as
an ally. The Phil Thompson incident
will afford an ample reason for a coalition
Of social forces. Meanwhile Miss Cleve-
land and Miss B3yard will have things
their own way the social world Of the
capital will continue to court the attrac-
tions Of the executive levees despite the
jcaiousies and riyalries Of social side
shows. The politicians have had their
hands fun in trying 10 force the President
into their methods; the old dowagers and
social leaders may encounter the same
experience,