The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Omclally speaking, washington tudy
be said to be rather vacant and dull. The
President and Mrs. Roosevelt are packing
up for short trip to Groton, Mass. /,
where the two eldest boys are going to
school, and few weeks later they will
set up their lares and penates at Oyster
Bay. Secretary Hay is pretty we'll again
and is now in St. Louis to deliver an adj
dress before the newspaper men there
assembled. Secretary Shaw is getting
ready to go to California, where he will
make some political speeches. Secretary
Taft, having overdone the banqueting
business during the last six months, has
now sworn off, cancelled all engagements
and fed to the wilds of Lake Saranac and
the Adirondacks
Our primary elections have passed off
with few bloody noses. Our primaries
are always quite strenuous on account of
the fact that we have no secondaries or
tertiaries. Senator German was in town.
and looked in moment at the conven-.
ton which met to choose delegates to ST..
Louis. He scented trouble in the air and;
left just before the Hearst delegates bolt.
ed in high dudgeon and held rump con-
vention. The Senator had been in New.
/. York, where he presumably got in touch
with his political friends there. He de-.
clined to be interviewed, however, saying
that he can keep still just as hard as
Judge Parker can.
The campaign for vice-presidential can
didates is now getting quite warm. Sen
ator Deliver and Congressman Boutelle@
and Marsh are earnestoadvocatesssof Rep
resentative Hit of Illinois to run with
Roosevelt. Hit is seventy, but is strong
man, we'll equipped for the position. He
still has in his cabinet of curios his steno-
graphic notes of the speeches made by
Lincoln in his discussion with Douglas in
1858. If he should be put on the ticket,
it is rather thought hereabouts that Jos.
w. Folk of Missouri would be the Demo
cratic candidate for the same Office. Vir-
ginians want Senator Daniel, but that is
out of the question.
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Senator Stewart of Nevada, white and
huge, shaggy and bearded, fingers here,
settling up his personal affairs. A year
ago he married again, against the pro-
test of his daughters. A statement from
his oldest daughter, Mrs. Bessie Hooker,
and counter-statement from the Senator
are now filling the drawing rooms of the
city with the buzz of scandal. Bessie
Hooker alleges that he has "promis-
cuously bundled off to the auction rooms"
all of her mothers personal property, and
that only after an appeal to his lawyer
was she able to rescue barely her mothers
portrait Shes asked for other souvenirs
but was told that she could buy them at
auction. The Senator declares that his
daughters assertion ''has no foundation
in fact;" that after his wife's death he
gave the keys of the house to his daugh-
tiers and told them 10 help themselves to
whatever they wanted; that they did SO, !
but when he went to sell the residue they
demanded large part of that; that in
making false statement, Bessie is "re-
turning evil for good" because ever since
her divorce fifteen years ago he has sup
ported her and educated her boys Stew
arts daughters have both been divorced,
and the husband of one of them, in ap
plying to the court for the custody of the
children, alleged that the Stewart home
was mo place for children to be brought
up Your correspondent called on Mrs.
Bessie Hooker, at her elegant, if not
sumptuous, home on 9 street. She came
smiling to the reception room-a tall and
handsome blonde who is said to he past
middle life, but looks thirty. She wore a
somewhat elaborate morning costume.
When told my errand she smiled YEARLY
and said L: ooh, no; cannot say word.
I cannot defend myself by assailing my
father, can : You see the dilemma. My
father is in position to say what he
pleases, and I cannot reply"
dropped in at the auction house and
found the floors and walls covered with
magnificent oriental furniture and deco
rations. 1t needs but glance to show
that they must have been made for
Chinese nobility or high officials, and the
inference is /. that they constitute the
equipment of the Chinese embassy when
it occupied Stewards Castle. They were
either sold to the Senator or given to him
to satisfy his claim at the time when he
sued the minister for damage to the build
ing. The articles to be sold are almost
all so novel as to be entirely unique, and
are better fitted for palace than for any
private residence. One of the vast en-
broideries is an inch thick and the huge
dragon has red and blue eyes as large as
hens eggs, set in sockets and movable
from behind in way to startle the spec