Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-08-11
GENERAL LoSGsTRter IN THE WEST.


General and MIS- James lspnHHtftHt
are making tour ~ the West and
their arrival IN Salt Lake is looked flr
In the near future. The general has "a
number ~ strong personal friends here
and viii b. given a warm reception On
his arrival Himself and party are
travelling len a private car The party.
says the Denver Post. " made up %
the general and his wife. Louis Has
kcli. the generals private secretary.
Col. c. g. Sanders. wife and daughter,
Mrs. N. l.. Sanders. Mrs. J. H. Hunt
ana Emory shannon, all from ucuf-
gln.
General Longstrcet II one 81 the most
famous Confederate generals ana aH
such. receives much adulAtI1n from ~.
Confederate veterans. he hal JUS
seated himself at tue breakfast table
this morning. when a visitor Was an-
nluncsd who said he was an old s1l-
der la the Confederate ranks and
wanted chance 10 look at the general.
General l.unEdtrcct never refugees re-
quest % this kind and he LETT his COT.
Zee and rolls 10 greet with hearty
hindclRsp she hcf0-worshlpcr waiting
outside.
The general. though u years old. IA
Htill an active man, strong ana alert.
lie rides horseback oyery morning
when at homo ana with the exception
u a slight deafness. Is well preserved.
His marriage last year TO Miss
nortsch. % Georgia, who II fifty years
his Junior. was at the time the sub
jcct for many a Newspaper story, but
both the general and his wife arr very
happy In each others compnnionHhlp.
She II devoted In her care for him and
h. delights IN rfcrring important
questions 10 her.
Mrs. I.ongHtrret IL a charming little
woman. Born and reared In Georgia,
she II a typical S1uiherncr with soft
voice ana gracious manner She 10
averHa 90 brlug interviewed, though w
20 the time % her marriage she had
been "a Newspaper woman from the
time she was fifteen years old. She ala
editorial work chiefly ANA always
worked with n paper 0f her own,
She ~ intcreaird In women and woe
mems work, though the ballot has few
attractions Tor her
"Thc women u Georgia would lose all
their influence" Hho said this morning.
were they "a 80 60 the polls and vote.
womnna aunrng. n very unpopular In
our state and a woman, you know. never
cares tn be unpopular"
MrS. LongstrVrt, though not caring for
the political rights of women. has done
OF Georgia new avenues N work. Tho
office Of state librarian IL now open
To- women IN the conservative state and
mainly through Mrs, L0nRHlrcctH ef-
| forts. The statute making this posi-
BILE. was passed by the last legislature
after a hard nEht, but by an over
/ whelmlng majority, only fifteen votes
being east against IL. "And after all
that. the governor deliberately np-
pointed u man TO the place." added
Mrs. LOngHtrret.
u think" concluded Mrs. LonEstreet.
that no woman starts out In public No
from real choice. There IL always
some reason for Il. Either she h OBJ
ligcd To work for livelihood. or her
home life ~ 20 unhappy and cramped
and hampered, that there Is no hope
for her, else. A womnn'a choice IL al
ways the ireside and think you never
/ ma woman. happily married, with
home and children, who asks for any.
/ thing more"
Mrs. LonEstrcet Is pretty little wo-
man, with soft light brown hair and
kindly blue eyer II la easy to Foe
that any ends SHE might achieve toward
helping women o. hclp Themselves
would not he gained by political spoech
making. but by gentle. womanly In.
incnec. quietly used among the men OF
her state.
She has met an advanced womnns
huItfaElats since coming 10 Colorado. II
was In Julosburg the other day and tho
lady conilded that she was working
| Tor certain man 90 be a state senator
~ the next leglslpture, and that she
was going to Eut him In an right. Mrs.
i@ngatreet did not express her opinion
OF We woman politician, nor VI her
methods.
The gcneral ma hls wife with their
friends are much delighted with colo.
tad", They ore going 20 visit Color.
.uo springs nnd Manitou and VIII BE- In
THIS vicinity for a week.