The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-26
MAY BE UNITED STATES SENATOR.
Charles Joseph BOnaparte of Mary
land ASpirant for the Honor.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

land Aspirant for the Honor.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
A Bonaparte may sit in the Senate Of
| the United States. Charles Joseph Bona,
parte is an aspirant for the honor. and
the republican legislature of Maryland
may elect him.
Charles Joseph is the grandson of Je-
rome Bonaparte, the youngest brother of
the great Napoleon, who came to this
country. in 1903 and married beautiful
Betsy" Patterson of Baltimore.
capt. jerome Bonaparte, who had been
serving III the French navy around about
the West Indies from 1890 to 1903, was
called to the home of his illustrious broth
er for the purpose of marrying the youth
to some European princess, and thereby
strengthening his hand in the colossal
game of conquest he was playing
Young, Jerome, who was then only 10
years Old passed through the United
States on his way to Paris, and on his So
journ met beautiful Elizabeth Patterson,
or as she was better known, Betsy
Patterson, the daughter of a very wealthy
Shipowner of Baltimore. The young cou,
pie fell in love. and after a very brief
courtship were married with great pomp
and ceremony by Bishop Carroll.
The father of the bride opposed the,
union with the strongest arguments, bur
the girl was headstrong and had her own
way.
Young Bonaparte delayed his Journey
to Paris for two years, but finally started
for the French capital in obedience TO a
/ DGItHlplOIN GOUllnduQ from Napoleon, q
| demand which was accompanied by a
stern order to leave that young person
behind" The latter part of the message
| was ignored by Jerome, and Betsy sail
| ed in one of Mr.. Patterson's ships in 1905.
| A French frigate prevented the bride
from landing at Lisbon and again al Am
/ sterdam. Betsy, was forced to seek
| refuge in England, where in a few days
! she gave birth to a male child, which was
! promptly christened Jerome after his
] father
| Jerome md ssT2atsxn ,,a,,a, mo. ,orot,,
| after their separation at Lisbon, although
| he lived until 1860 and she until 1879.
Napoleon made a desperate effort to per-
suade the pope to dissolve the marriage,
and, failing to accomplish this, he COM
! PEELED the imperial council of state OF
\ France to order a decree of divorce, and
a year afterward Jerome married Prin-
! cess Catherine of Wurtemberg, and was
/ created King of Westphalia.
For fifty years and more Betsy Patter-
| son Bonaparte fought for recognition as
| the wife of jerome Bonaparte, and when
| he died she entered suit for a part of
| his estate. She was defeated in this last
move, but by her persistence and energy
! she secured the recognition demanded for
| herself and her son.
! AS soon as her son Jerome attained
! manhood she endeavored to make a royal
| alliance for him, but the young man pre-
! ferred TO conduct his own love affairs,
| and married plain Miss Williams of Rox-
| bury, Mass. Jerome Bonaparte and
| Charles Bonaparte were the issues of this
| marriage.
Jerome served with distinction in the
| French army, attaining the rank of col
| onel, but returning to this country some
| fifteen or eighteen years ago he took up
| his residence in Washington, where he
| died recently.
Charles Joseph Bonaparte inherited
| many of the aristocratic notions of his
| remarkable mother and he moves with
| majestic condescension in the upper alti.
| tudes of Baltimore's most exclusive So
| ciety. He is a lawyer, but practices his
profession merely for an occupation, for
| he is a very wealthy man.
| He enjoyed the name for many years
/ of being a most offensive bulldozer be-
! fore the bar, but one day a few years age
| he undertook to browbeat a young attor.
him afterward in the corridors of the
court house, blackened his eyes and
mopped the floor with his eminent frame
Since that unlucky incident Charles 10
| seph has been much more affable in his
| professional intercourse with his fellow
r. politics he is an ardent republican
| and in religion a rigid Roman Catholic
1t is related of him that when he headed
a delegation to welcome Cardinal Glib
! bons on the return of that prelate with q
red hat, he dropped on his knees upon
the cold floor of the railroad station and
reverently kissed the hem of the cardi-
He is 45 or 80 years old. well preserved
| a rather impressive speaker but not con
sidered a man of unusual ability.
All of the Baltimore candidates and
| those from the western part of the state
labor under the disadvantage of going uI
against a law and a tradition which de-
| claTes that one United States senator
shall come from the eastern part of the
state and the other from the western
This law was passed in the early part OF
| the century, when the state was about
evenly divided in population between
the eastern and western sections
Now the republicans will have to re-
| peal the old act in order to elect yelling
ton or Bonaparte, or any other candidate
fronPthe western part of the state. They
have the power and the present DISPOSE
| ton to do So