The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-01
mrs. BENZ. BREWSTER,
DAUGHTER OF A FORMER SEN
ATOR FROM MISSISSIPPI.
A Woman Of Varied Experiences In
Life, Who Was Cha acter Eed b.
Beauty and Grace.

lux An1nhOfb dn0 GAAnA altui
were well known. She had been Ill
bat short time, being stricken with
that fell disease which has every win
ter month for its own, but is peculiar
ly the fatal nsalady of this clustering
changeable month Of March. MTs.
Brewster, formerly Mrs. Delonde, was
the daughter of Robert j. Wal
ker, a very noted Pennsylvania,
who left his marx on the politics OF
this country in the ante-bellum days,
and 1t was her lot to see Washington
society under two very different social
regimes once as the daughter Of the
Secretary Of the Treasury OF an admin
istration in which the naughty pro-
slavery element was predominant and
all Washin ston bowed to the Southern
influence, and sglip, q gen aration
later, as the wife OF a Cabinet officer in
the Arthur administration, when the
old society and old slaveocIacy had
utterly disappeared.
1t was through one of the many
kind personal acts of the late Gen.
Grant while President that the daugh-
ter of an old Secretary of the Trea ury,
then, like many Of the ancient regime,
IN reduced circumstances, was given
position in the department OF which
her father once was at the very head.
l. was while there that Mrs. Delonde
met the distinguished Pennsylvania
lawyer who became her husband. Mrs.
Brewster was a woman Of much per-
sonal beauty, inheriting her fathers
dark features and hair, as well as his
intelligent vivacity and gr4ces, snd
was brilliant entertainer, a. her long
residence az the cap tel, amid variant
circumstances, gave her that rare social
fsculty which wins admiration and
success.
Robert j. Walker was one of those
sons Of Pennsylvania who gained grea
eminence without his native heath,
and by espousiug and pressing public
measures sntagonistic to bis deare {
traditions 10 political economy. He
was born in Northnm berland, 10 1901,
being nearly contemporary with Gen.
Cameron, end entered the University
CT Pennsylvania, where he graduated
in 1919. From here he drifted to
Pittsburg, where be studied law
and entered on practice. He
early interested himself in poll.
tics, and was chairman Of the Demo-
cratic committee corresponding to our
present State committees when only
twenty-five years OF age. A great
Jacksonian, he brought about the &C.
ton of the Harrisburg convention OF
1924 which nominated Old Hickory
Two years later he moved to Missis-
sippi, drawn thither by love match.
From thence forward he became more
OF Southerner than any one to the
plantation born, and all mis- great
abilities were cast with the political
fortunes of that section. The
South htd great peDchani
for advancing Northern proselytes.
and early preferred Office to Walker
after his SO ting ia the S ate, but he
steadily refused until 1886, when he
was chosen Senator in Congress,
taking bis seat at the second session Il
the Twenty-fourth Congress when bur
thirty-fve years old, at the close OF the
iren-hearted Jsckson's career az Presi-
dent. He served Missi ,sipEi in this
place until his appointment by Polk,
ten years la'er, to the head OF the
Treasury. In the Senate he xaya
recognised leader.
He was bitter opponent of protoc
ton, and fought the tariff OF 1912
with all his resources, politi, al and
legal, which were considerable. 1h-
act passed despite his ant igonism, bat
he bided his time, and schemed and
dreamed until 1916, when be knitted
the pet theory of Pennsylvania, his
native State, with peculiar force and
vengeance, Saving the pleasure OF see
ing Buchanan, then premier of lh4
Polk administration, and who voted
for the 1912 tariff when in the Senate,
keep Conservatively quiet on the sub
ject, land Vice President Dal a., another
Penney lvsnian, give the vote which Sc
cured the advancement of his tc0-
nomic ideas. The revulsion sgliust
this ant-Penrsylvanie policy as what
brought Gen. Cam aron to the front in
our State politics. Geo. W. Woodward
was the regularly slated nominee for
United States Senate 10 succeed Buch-
anaD, with the latter's good will and
e lesse 10 aid him. But |
Cameron turned Mugwump, boltt d the |
caucus sn1 With the aid OF Wing votes |
was elected. He fought Walkers tariff |
Of '46, and stood up manfully for hi
State interests, arranging an alliance |
by an exhibition of Cameronian di. |
plomacy with the Wing Seua orr,
which defeated all attempts Of Buch-
anan, Walker sndths Polk admins.
Iration TO control the patronage of
this State. Judge Woodward was
for the Supreme bench as
The successor OF Henry Baldwin, but
Senator Cameron had the Wing Sen
lsoIs defeat him, aud afteFward COM
PEELED the Polk administration to Sc
ect Judge RD5eit @. Grier, who long
adorned the bench Of the court OF las.
Iesort
1t may be added that after the de-
eat of the tariff Of '42 the Whips
Iwept the country in the Congressional
elections. Winthrop was elected the
Speaker at the next Congress bsc luse
le had We tad for the Wilmot provi-n.
Abraham Lincoln was a member OF t;
10 was Andrew johnson. Seed Of DIS
ension we're sowed among the Wings
It this Speakership election, W irh,
hough covered over until after 1913,
eally disrupted the party. Gen.
)Gss, urged by Walker and the
administration, OF which he was
he compelling spirit, vo,ed in the
'eDate for the tariff Of '46. In 1888
wo years later, PENNSYLVANIA elect
raj vote scaled his doom. Had Il
cen given to him and Butler thev
gould have been elected. Robert j
Vslker's infaeuce wss. ther,f re
'rolife ef events all round toe pre-.
,ellum political horizon. His report
diverse to the tariff Of 1912 was
n able document, exhaustive
esIching and scathinply 90.
ere in lis arAlyticsl arraiRn-
neDt OF the proteStionisss. How
Buchanan could imEneae himself In
Dfelgn policy, apparently oblivioup of
q logic, which indirectly held not Y
srision bis vote of 1852, and D,las
orget bis premises of toe. 1874 tam. 4
align under its vivid and loint, d re- !
lenbranges-mueh less vet to carry
at ite ro1cl usiOns--is enc of lie mys-