The age-herald., 1898-01-02
Granddaughter of Napoleon Bonaparte the Leading Candidate For the
 Senatorship
From the State of Maryland History of the Descendant of the Little Corporal"

Special Correspondence of The AgeHerald.
 Baltimore, Dec S1.--Unless there is a rad ical change in the undercurrent of political sentiment throughout the United States the legislature of Maryland which will assem- ble in joint session this coming week, will cause the senatorial toga of the Hon. Ar thur Pue German, of Force Bill fame. to slip from the stooping shoulders of that astute statesman and gently settle upon the equally rounded ones of Charles Joseph Bonaparte, of Baltimore.
 In that event the Old Terrapin State will be represented in the upper house of the national legislature by Wellington and a Bonaparte. and year and three months hence Wellington will grasp the arm of Bonaparte and escort him up the center aisle of the United States senate chamber to take the oath of office )vereign representative of a sovereign nerican state-a coinstance without a pa allel in American history, and one which will give him many votes this coming week, for there is a deep and strong strain of romance in the makeup of your true Marylander. The only drawback to the historical beauty of the suggestion is that the present junior senator from Maryland
 was NOt tSoru W Nelifngton.
 His is some unpronouncable cognoman which few people were able to spell and fewer to pronounce, and as his father was in the battle of Waterloo the name of Vel lington was adopted in honor of the Iron Duke.
 For fifteen years Charles J. Bonaparte, who is affable, courtly and fifty-five, has cast covetous and longing eyes toward the United States senate, and should his fond hopes fail of realization this coming month the grand nephew of the immortal Napo- leon and the present head of the American family of Bonapartes will have met a Waterloo full as bitter, disappointing and fraught with mental anguish as that to which his world-famous ancestor was sub- jected on the 18th day of June, 1913.
 By virtue of his soui-stirring eioquence, sterling qualities and brilliant intellectual ity, cultivated by liberal burning of the midnight oil the grandson of the gracious Prince Jerome and the witty and beauti- full Betsey Patterson, has carved for him. self in Maryland's temple of fame mich full as prominent as those occupied by Roger Brooke, Fancy, Edward Raymond Ames, Charles Carroll, Henry Winter Da- wis, or Reverdy Johnson. He stands today one of the foremost sons of a state rich in noble and gifted men. It is said that he has staked his whole political future on the decisive vote of the legislature so soon to convene. He could be governor; he could be mayor of Baltimore; he could go to con- gress, but he will have none of them. It is a seat in the senate or nothing.
 But while his whole beinb is centered on the tempting bait, he will not admit that he is a candidate. I talked with him a few days ago in regard to the matter, and he steadfastly denied that he is in the race He holds the rather quixotic idea that the office should seek the man, and anyone who would intrigue, lobby or engineer for such an honor as seat in the senate is a vulgarian and worthy to be there That's s Charles J. Bonaparte to a CT" He has most remarkable ideas on many matters, and originality of opinion is one of his chief characteristics For instance, he does not approve of our public school sys- tem-possibly because he is staunch Ro-