The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-20
THE CRIME OF 1878
Col. Gorham Exposes the Lead
ing Criminals.
HIS LETTER OF DISCOVERY
It Made Somewhat of a Stir at
st. Louis.
READ IN A POLITICAL MEETING
A Life Long Republican Charges Sher-
man With Committing Great
est Crime of Modern
Legislation.
lis LETTER OF DISCOVERY
READ IN A POLITICAL MEETING

Legislation
Washington, Sept. 19.-(speciaD-
The Ladies Home Journal for Septem-
Der prints an excellent likeness OF Mrs.
Ruth McEnery Stuart and also gives
a short sketch of her life. Mrs. Stuart
is one of the brightest and most at
tractiye of our Southern women. Born
and reared in New Orleans, she is
possessed of ali the inherent qualities
which characterize high bred
Southern woman.
In 1884 Mrs. Stuart visited North Car
DINA and was a guest at the hotel on
Roam Mountain. That was some years
before the present handsome rostlery
was erected. The old hotel was very
simple affair in every way except the
table which was most excellent and
always abundantly supplied with the
whitest of bread, freshest of butter and
sweetest of honey, to which you come
with fine fountain appetite.
So it was here to beautiful Roam
Mountain that the widow who has
since become so famous, turned in her
early sorrow, seeking solace and
change, and bringing with her the
beautiful boy of five years, her only
child and now handsome lad of 10
the constant companion of his gifted
mother. Mrs. Stuart has written many
sketches of negro life. She leads in
writing their dialect and she has also
given several volumes to the public
which have met with great and deserv-
ed success. She also receives hand
some income from giving public read
ings of her sketches.
WILL MARRY A TURK.
The announcement of the coming
marriage of Miss Alice Belknap to
Mavoryain Bey, the Turkish minis
ter, has created quite sensation in
Washington society. Miss Belknap is
the daughter of Gen. Belknap, Secre-
tary of War to Gen. Grant. She is a
lovely blonde of petite figure. Her
unusually attractive manners have
made her the belle for two seasons at
Bar Harbor, and Narragansett.
Mayroymi Bey, though courteous to
all women old and young, has never
been known before to single out any
one for particular admiration and at
tention, he is a christian, and many
are the predictions for a happy and
socially prominent life for pretty Miss
Belknap by her host of friends. The
marriage is set for the late autumn.
THE NEW SECRETARY.
The new Secretary of the Interior
and his very youthful and attractive
wife will add much to the winters So
cial life here and propose to dispense
lavish hospitality from their home at
the Arlington.
The Chief Justice of Eng
land and his party made special
pilgrimage of Mt. Vernon. These
Britishers have way of respecting the
memories of men who declare for in
dependence of people.
The people are getting at the bottom
facts and all of them in the present
political chautauqua. And now comes
ex-Secretary of the Senate, George G..
Gorham, who is an able man, an honest
man, and was editor of the old Nation
al Republican, and who certainly was
in a position to know what he writes
about, as he was the recording officer
of the Senate in 1873.
THE CRIME OF 1873.
Col George G. Gorham was secretary
of the Senate in the now famous year
of the demonstration of silver, thinks
he has exposed the leading criminal in
the ''Crime of 1878"
Col. Gorham has been a Republican
all his life, but this does not prevent
him from exposing what he believes
to have been the greatest crime of
modern financial legislation. A few
days ago he wrote letter to ex-Gov.
Charles p. Johnson, who read it in a
political speech at st. Louis last Sat-
urday night. The letter is said to have
created a great sensation. The letter
openly charges Senator Sherman with
having deliberately deceived his fellow
Senators, in order to have the bill
passed. The letter reads as follows:
From the record, which / have
faithfully reproduced, it is impossible
to reach any other conclusion than
that the confidence of the House was
abused by Mr.. Hooper, that the conf
dence of the Senate was abused by Mr.
Sherman, and that by their joint eff
forts the most important piece of legis-
lation of the century was carried
through Congress by stealth, and the
double standard, which had existed by
the people for more than eighty years,
was taken away from them without
their consent or knowledge, in the
interest of aliens, by the manipula-
fiapc dacncibad The man who did this