Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

American women are not as "smart" as
French women, and as capable of governing
as those who have held sway in other coun-
tries Presidents wives have not distin-
guished themselves in this line to any great
extent. The story goes that Mrs Fillmore
made her husbands fortune and that her
ambition was the primal cause of his ele-
walton. Her wages as a teacher sup
ported him while studying law, and
her influence put him into politics. But
no wife of a President ever had finger
deeper in the pie of public affairs than Mrs.
Hayes. She had frmness enough to with
stand the whole Cabinet, especially upon
the subject of serving wine at the State
dinners to foreign di plomats and ambassa-
dors. Secretary Evarts talked and i'm
plored in vain. The President had nothing
to say as against her decision, and she car
ried her point in this matter, as In most
others-it she set her mind to do 1t.
Impress Left by Lucy Hayes.
During her reign, for reign it was, the
tone of society was improved. Her lnde-
pendence and policy discouraged the shoddy
and mushroom element who had the idea
that money would atone for lack of culture
and serve as an excuse for vulgarity Some
one has said that "Old Hayes wouldn't do
anything without consulting Lucy" This,
if true, NAV account for the impossible,
non-committal manner, and lack OF posi-
tive assurances of which politicians and
office seekers so continually complained If
Mrs Hayes had to "pass" on them first, it
would account for most of the disappoint-
ments of prominent place hunters during
the Hayes administration.
Mrs. Logan is said to have been the poll
tieian of her family. That to her active and
s. l,,a bo
Logan won as statesman, and nothing
short of the Presidency would have satisfied
her ambition for him had death not smoth-
cred it with the funeral pail.
Since women are not permitted to occupy
the throne in this country, who is to deny
We NAV not have an Isabella, Maria
Theresa, an Elizabeth in a Presidents wife?
The political tact of Elizabeth is said by
those who have studied the inner history of
her reign to have been unerring. Says
Green: "She played with grave cabinets as
a cat does with mouse. She hoodwinked
and outwitted every statesman in Europe
for 80 years.
Mrs. Garfield, it is written, had "a COM
plete mastery of politics" and would have
had much to say ''behind the scenes" as to
the management of public affairs upon the
stage of action had not death buried her
hopes and aspirations in the grave.
They Must Work With Mrs Blnine.
Nov, as reports 60, Mrs Blaine is just
the woman to back up her husband in the
Presidential business, and it would seem to
be the duty of the political leaders who
represent the masses of the Republican
party to win over Mrs. Blaine to their de-
sires, and James G. will "fall in"
with their ''stampede-to-Bl Blaine" idea
without further trouble and uncer-
tainty. The Blaines have been through
all the hardships of campaign, and had
all the mud thrown at them that would
stick. The leaders have the measure of the
Democracy, and can rate exactly the force
of the opposition. They know the thin
places and weak spots as developed in the
former campaigns and can guard against
them in the coming struggle. They can see
to it that the building in which the nomina-
tion is neld is supplied with light, so that
an adjournment cannot be forced at the
supreme moment in the darkening twilight
by lack of gas, or shortage in
candles, as was the case at Cincinnati.
They can guard against any such
slip as Burchard's Rum, Romanism and
Rebellion" by having no fool preachers
around. They can in short profit by the
experiences of the past and secure victory
to the magnetic man of Maine and the
spoiIs for the party if they can secure the
cooperation of Mrs. Blaine. who, if the
reports are true, now holds the balance of
power. Without her they will have to
fall back upon Harrison and lose their
golden opportunity to ''gct even" A very
pretty ana interesting game it is for the
outsiders who don't care a cent which wins.
BESSIE BRAMBLE-