The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-11
POLITICAL LIVES BL1GHrED.
How Female Entanglem ents Cut Short
the Political Careers of the Hamil-
tons
From tie Nelo YORK. Press.

ONNNACS~@
tons.
From the Ne'o Yorl: Press
The consignment of Robert Ray Hamil-
ton to oblivion from political life in conse-
queufs Of his relations TO woman, is call
ing the attention of those who are versed in
the facts Of inner as we'll as external his
tory to the strange coincidence with the
fate of his greatgrandfather, the founder
of the Harniltonian line, the great .federaIist
and secretary of the treasury.
Between the two there also lies a striking
series OF links in the connecting members
of the Hamiltonian line in their relations to
politics anc women, and the effect of these
upon their lives.
he who reads the cyclopedias and the
standard historic records OF the life of
Alexander Hamilton finds no mention of
the woman in the case,n whose influence
hung over the Weehawken meadows on the
fatertll July II, 1904, when Hamilton re-
ceived his death wound from the pistol of
the acrid and acrimonious Burr Direct
tradition and the verdict accepted among
men whose knowledge does not seem to
make history, is that Alexander Hamilton
was killed by Burr, and thus put out of his
political life, in consequence Of the sudden
and strange ascendency which the famous
federaliSt had secured over the fair
Nine Jumel, to whose regard Burr had
laid exclusive claims. Hamilton's devotion
to the fair sex was well known, and this.
his last affair of the affections, cur him of
in his political prime at the early age Of ~.
Hamilton's eldest son, Philip, ONLY two
years before had ended a promising pohti-
cal career, a victim TO his challenger's bull
let. The death is set down i'll history as the
result OF a political quarrel Young
Hamilton was challenged by a partisan OF
Burr named FAKE. A coincidence in the
fateS of father and son is that while Fakes
based his challenge on alleged offensive re
marks made concerning his Fourth Of July
Grafton by young Hamilton, Burr put his
challenge on the ground that Hamilton had
made derogatory remarks about him dur
ing the Burr-Lewis contest. the father is
said to have had premonition of his own
fate from that of his son.
John c. Hamilton, son of Alexander
Hamilton, VINO wrote lie of his father
aud arranged his state papers. never got be-
You'd the dignity Of a cowniding for his fol-
lowing close after feminine footsteps. Ac-
cording TO the public prints of 1913, an en-
ragged husband inflicted corporal punish
meat on aim in ST. Johns park. His neign-
bors In Twenty-first street, between Fifth
and Sixth avenues, recall how of evenings,
when he was we'll toward 80 years old, he
would stand at Fifth or Sixth avenue and
TWenty-firSt street and gaze intently aud
dedghtedly upon women who were passing.
Philip Hamilton, the youngest brother of
John c. Hamilton, born after the death of
the eldest brother, kept up the family
idiosyncrasy in the most approved and dis
Greet manner. The story has already been
told in the Press Of young Ismael William
son, who recognized his father in the rich
Wall street banker, whose real name was
| Philip Hamilton. Publicity did not come
upon the fact that the banker lived a Qua
| life until Mrs. williamson after hi:
death, laid claim to an interest III the
estate.
| Tradition brings down the story from the
early days of the constitution of the United
| States Of the wonderful stag" parties giver
| by Alexander Hamilton at the old mansion
ON the heights, where, after the good old
| custom in Rome, after the feast and tn,
VINE, and with new imporrations of the
| liquor dear to Bacchus, tae dancing girl.
| trIpped upon the scene and gave entertain
ment to the guests.
Robert Ray Hamilton, in his great mis-
! fortune. appears to have been hypnotized
| by family tradition and tendencies and SC
to have been driven by an unusually strong
| fate. That his ruin through a woman,
however, should be in the domain of poll
! tics is a still stronger evidence of a mos
remarkable and inexplicable destiny.