Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-07-24
FAMoU OHIO WOMEN.

les of this kind is unknown, but in look
ing for the cause of this infantile phe-
nomenon it is not necessary to go further
than the wives of some of the leading
statesmen of the Buckeye state.
OF course these ladies did not influence
the babyhood days of their husbands, but
they have set an example to the mothers
of the coming generation and have proven
conclusively that a clever woman can be
of immense assistance to her husband in
the troubled arena of politics.
There is Mrs. James Z. Campbell for in
stance. She is said to be the cleVerest
practical politician of them all. There is
no limit to her ambition, or of her good
sound sense, and If her husband ever
reaches the White House it will be due as
much to her as to his own efforts.
Mrs. Campbell laughingly says that she
has been a politician ever since she was
anything at all. Her father, Job E. Ow-
ems of Hamilton, Ohio, was one of the
shrewdest, cleverest and most able pol
iticians in the state a generation ago. He
was wealthy manufacturer and in the
councils of his party occupied much the
same position that Mark Hanna does to-
day All of the great politicians of his
time were in the habit of congregating at
his home to discuss matters and map out
the plan of campaign.
Mrs. Campbell is a born diplomat, ard
she can turn the strongest kind of a re-
versal of her husbands political fortunes
into something of favorable nature. She
has the holiness of Napoleon, and at
the proper time can be as conservative as
! a Wellington. AS Libby Owens she was
one of the great favorites at Vassar COL
lege.
When her husband was first elected to
, congress some of her envious Ohio friends
predicted that she would be overwhelmed
and lost in the great whirlpool of Wash
ington society. But their DEMONSTRATIONS
were completely at fault. She became the
rage at the capital almost in day. She
knows how to dress and she has the tact
! and brilliancy of a French woman. With
much less money at her command than
the late Mrs. Whitney her receptions and
banquets fully rlvaled the affairs OF that
famous hostess.
Mrs. Campbell makes it a business as
| well as a pleasure to be on friendly terms
with everyone with whom she comes in
contact, particularly the political rivals of
her husband. In one of the gubernatorial
| campaigns in Ohio it is well remembered
that on the day the republicans nominated
, Major Mckinley for office Mrs. Campbell
| drove up to the hotel where the major
| was stopping and took him for a drive
through Columbus. Mckinley and Camp.
| bell were bitter rivals, and the nominal
ton of Mckinley at that time was re-
| garded as a set back to the Campbell for
tunes. The people of Columbus recog-
nized the distinguished couple in the open
carriage, and as it passed rapidly through
| the streets it was to the tune of ringing
| cheers from all sides.
Her Revenge on Foraker.
In this same campaign Foraker de-
nounced the Campbell administration as
1.-THE most damnable in the history OF
Ohio That would have made almost
any wife pretty mad. Perhaps it had that
effect on Mrs Campbell, but she was toe
tertained Mrs. Foraker as the guest OF
| honor at a luncheon at the executive
mansion. That was her way of firing
back at Senator Foraker.
Mrs. Foraker, the wife of the famous
fire alarm" senator, is a clever woman
She has tact and dignity and is graceful
entertainer. Her husband makes a great
many enemies and Mrs. Foraker is ar
adept at restoring severed friendships
tended the Ohio Wesleyan seminary a
Delaware.
While her husband was governor o.