Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-19
Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Blaine Scarce
ly Spoke as They Passed By.
THE FUTURE FIRST LADY TALKS.
Wine Will be Served at the White House il
Occasion Demands.
SOUTHERNERS ADVISE THE GENERAL
As to the Cabinet and the Settling Of the yeIatOus
Race Problem.
ESPECIAL rELEeRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l

I
Harrison, since which time the two ladies
had not spoken, but the matter seems to
have excited so much attention throughout
the country that what may be called semi
official statement as to it has been given out
through friend of the Harrisons. 1t is
substantially denial of the truth of the
story, although it is admitted that the re-
lations between Mrs. Harrison and Mrs.
Blaine have never been cordial.
| Mrs Blaine, when Mrs. Harrison first
went to Washington, treated Mrs. Harrison
about as she treated all the new ladies"
who made an appearance in Washington
society, with good deal of disdain. Mrs.
| Harrison is of a nature to receive that sort
| of treatment with cheerful resignation, but
not with thanks. She found herself very
comfortable at Washington in spite OF the
cold shoulder turned toward her by the
! wife of the Secretary of State, and she
| ignored Mrs. Blaine about as Mrs Blaine
| ignored her. Mrs. Harrison is a true
Western girl, and if people don't want to
associate with her they needn't, and she can
get along without them.
NO OPEN QUARREL.
She met Mrs. Blaine occasionally in
Washington society, but the acquaintance
of the two ladies never progressed any fur
| ther than the implied limits which Mrs.
Blaine herself had fixed. There were no
affronts direct or indirect from either side
to the other and the matter of her probable
social relations toward Mrs. Blaine had not
been considered by Mrs. Harrison until
brought up by the publication of a few days
ago. In any event the relations of the two
| ladies would have had no influence upon
| +ba oh pnoe of Mr. R1aina for the Cabinet
Mrs Harrison has from the very. start de-
termined that she would keep her part of
the administration entirely clear from poll
tics. Her invariable reply to the hundreds
who have written soliciting her influence
for some appointment has been that she had
nothing to do with politics or Offices. So
far as the social obligations imposed upon
her by the official position of her husband
are concerned they will be scrupulously full
! filled without regard to personal feelings.
If she has any personal likes or dislikes
they will be exercised outside of the range
of her official social duties. 1t is the same
with the wine question, the hustle question
and score of other questions upon one side
or another of which her influence is con-
tinually being sought.
WINE AND BUsTLEs.
'It was not 1 that the people elected
L
eral. don't propose to set up at the White
House as dictator of manners or customs.
If he wants wine on the table, or if it seems
to be necessary for the fulfllment of our
obligations to official guests, it shall be
there. MY personal feelings about it have
nothing to do with the matter and as to the
bustles, why, if some ladies want to wear
them, they can do it, I'm sure, and If others
don't want them, why they needn't. It's
none of my business either way"
The dancing question is another about
which the women reformers have been try
ing to worry the wife of the President-elect,
but she won't have anything to do with that
either, personally. She likes to Edance and
she will dance whenever she feels like it.
Other people, she saws, are at liberty to
dance or not just as they please. One
peculiar development of Mrs. Harrison's in
dependence of character is a dislike to be
copied after, or made to set a fashion in
dress or manners in spite of herself
If she gets an idea that other women are
wearing their hair in certain way, or
draping their skirts after certain fashion
Just because she does it, she gets provoked
and changes the style of her hair or her
skirts at once. There will be no fashions set
from the White House while she is there.
1t is said that recently hair-dressing es-
tablishment in the East sent two women
here ostensibly to make money out of the
rush of business at the time of the Cover
nor's ball and other social affairs, but really
to find out how Mrs. Harrison and the
ladies of the Harrison family dressed their
hair, so as to get up some new style to be
called the "a la Harrison" They &ere
bafled, because Mrs. Harrison didn't seem
to have any particular style of dressing her
hair, but put it up in different ways as
happened to strike her fancy, but never in
a peculiar or original fashion.
BUCKS CABINET CHANCES.
Colonel Alfred E. Buck, the Georgisn |
Cabinet possibility, who has come here upon
much the same sort of an invitation as that |
which brought John F. Plummer here a
few days ago, made his call upon the Presi- |
dent-elect this afternoon, and had quite |
long conference with him. Although |
Colonel Buck was accompanied here by DR.. |
C. w. Arnold, of Atlanta, and D. r. Locke,
of Macon, he went up to see General Harri-
son alone. 1t is said that General Harri-
sons letter to Colonel Buck was in SUBJ
stance a statement that Colonel Bucks
name had been mentioned to him in such
high terms by Republicans from his part of
the country that he desired to talk with him
upon the Southern question.
1t is not supposed thaHthere is anything of
visit so far as he is concerned. Colonel
Buck says himself that he has no idea that
his name is being seriously considered by
the President-elect, and intimates that he is
very well contented with his present office,
that of Clerk of the United States Circuit
Court for Georgia. He thinks that if any
Southern man goes into the Cabinet it is
likely to be Malone, because the appoint
ment of Malone would, be thinks, make
-, al, |
Colonel Buck was reticent as to his mission
both before and after his call upon the
President-elect, but DR.. Arnold talked
more freely.
THE RACE QUESTION.
"Down our way" he said, "the one pre-
vailing question is that of race. Until that
is disposed of we cannot hope for the polit-
ical peace or the material prosperity that we
desire. As We see it, the only possible way
of disposing of the race question is by the
division of the white vote, now concentrated
upon the Democratic side. Gen
eral Harrison can, we believe, bring about
such division of the white vote if he acts
as he must act if he fully understands the
situation in which we are placed. The great
thing to be done is to use the utmost care
in making appointments and pick out
the very best men in the communities
Inere are plenIv OF aple men whose selection
for Federal Offices would strengthen the
party vastly all through the South. They
are not all Republicans, but the lines
should not be drawn too closely between the
parties in this matter. If they are not
slighted because on the race issue they have
sided against us, it will make them our
friends and aid us greatly by convincing the
white people of the South that we are first
for the country and for the party afterward." !"
DR.. Arnold was an enthusiastic Buck
man, when it came to the South in the Cab l.
inet and that was probably one reason why
he and Mr. Locke did not call upon the
d raridort Ii n h. H.l |