The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-07-21
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Senator Tillman has been having trouble
with his throat for several months, anu
had an operation performed on 1t some
time ago. He strained it fearfully In his
peace-making capacity at the st. Louis
Convention, and has retarded recovery in
definitely. Senator Tillman thinks that the
ticket Parker and Davis is winner-sho' {.
All, ha! Likewise hear! hear! Bourke
Cochran can never be President, no never,
because he was bor-r-un on the wrong side
av tie wather, sure, but he can be the next
thing. he can go where he can boss the
President and foil his dearest wishes in the
shape of baking appointments, don't you
know. And that's what he's after-the
United States Senate, indade, an he is
thot. The fight in New York has a double
meaning to Tammany-and Bourke Cock
ran. If New York goes Democratic on
Parker. it will likely make the State Demo-
cratic as to State Assembly, and then
Bourke Cochran is to come to the United
States Senate in Senator Depew's place,
his term expiring March 4, 1905, 1t is a
consummation to be fought for, and the
way the bar'ls will be opened in the En-
pire State this Fall will astonish even Tam
many. 1t will not be so much for Parker,
for Tammany does not snuggle up to ice
bergs to any notable extent, but it will be
for Cochran, and the dollar that helps him
will also help Parker, and there you are!
A Washington woman, Mrs. Mary
Church Terrell, in whose veins runs negro
blood. achieved the honor at the great In
ternatonal Congress of Women in Berlin.
Next to Aunt Susan 3. Anthony she was
probably most honored. Mrs. Terrell has
been President of the National Association
of Colored Women. and was for five years
member of the School Board of the Dis
trict of Columbia: She is graduate OF
Oberlin. then studied year in Paris and
another year in Berlin Mrs. Terrell made
an address in Berlin to the international
Congress of Women, first, in English. 1t
so happened that the French and German
contingent of the Congress could not under
stand her. so, at their request, she repeated
the address in German, and then in French.
She was the only linguist in the whole
blin of American women present, except
ing Mrs. May Wright Sewall, and she was
overwhelmed with compliments and atten-
tons. She was invited everywhere. and
attended the reception of the Empress as
one of the honored guests.
Mrs. Terrell is tall. slender, possessed Of
a fine presence and is unusually eloquent,
with a command of language that is truly
wonderful. She is not very dark, and but
for her hair might be taken for an Indian.
She made such an impression upon her
audiences-by the way she is a magnificent
dresser-that she was forced to come for
ward and bow over and over again before
she was permitted to take and keep her
seat. after her oratorical feat. 1t was
personal triumph of which Mrs. Terrell
feels proud. and it was also triumph for
her race.
Lady Curson's baby was christened the
other day in London. Lady Curzon was
''our" Mary Letter, as bonnie a girl az
ever loved her father, and who made a real
love match. Lady Curzon is to-day one of
the great women of England, but they say
that she is just as sweetly courteous to all
Corners as when she was just pretty Mary
Letter and her old fathers closest COM
panion here in Washington. The Letters
were all devoted to each other, but the
death of Mr.. Letter pere fell hardest on
Mary" whom he loved devOtedly, for she
was his first born. Lady Curzon was in
Curzon, who is a girl, and they wanted
boy badly. is named Alexandra, for the
Queen of England, and the Queen. in gray
crepe, stood as godmother for the little girl.
The small wean h0wled all during the cere-
mony. while the queen held her, but that is
considered good sign, by the supersti-
tious, because it foretells long and lusty
life. SO they say.
Dear me. what will happen now? Ger
tainly something will be a doing very soon
oh maybe it is only an advertising dodge
of the st. Louis Exposition! If that is the
case there will be something doing. The
the scenes on the pike at the Exposition,
were some time ago enjoined from appear
ing in public unless they donned something
less diaphanOus than the altogether. The
President was appealed to in the matter,
and although he is pretty we'll acquainted
with savages and barbarians in their native
wilds and primitive conditions, he agreed
that when the lgorrOtes were in Rome they
should do as Romans do, and he ordered
"pants" put on the creatures. Immediate
ly silk went to premium, for those
pants" were made of silk, they were in
deed. Raw silk, at that, the kind that
women are going crazy over this Summer.
Those pants" were roomy enough for any
Turk that ever walked. and they were made
to measure. so they were. All the tailOrs
in st. Louis were kept busy at the job till
they were finished to the Queens taste, or
maybe the Kings would be better meta
Getting the Igorrotes to wear them was
quite another proposition, and their &C.
tions raise again the question about
morality being after all custom" As
soon as the heather Igorrotes crawled into
those pants" they ran and hid in the
brush. They did that. and they couldn't
be got out. They would wear the pants"
until they saw strangers coming. and then
they ran for dear life. They said they
felt ASHAMED" Now, wouldn't that frost
you? Here they have been wearing moth
ing on earth but what the Cowboys call
gee string" and they mingled unblnshing
with the curious multitude that went to in
spect them and their strange customs. But
the instant their nakedness was covered
they were launched on an unknown sea. and
felt themselves to be indelicately clad. ac-
cording to their code of moral ethics
Finally they simply refused to wear the
Objectionable pants" and taking them off
hung them on the bushes i'm which they
used to hide. Now, the President, appealed
to by Mrs. Daniel Manning. President
Francis. and several others, in behalf of
the down-troiden Igorrotes, who were be-
ing so violently wrenched from their form
er customs and habits and the President
has rescinded his former order, and saws
that he doubts the advisabiity of having
the IgOrrotes wear clothing they do not
like.
Representative Babcock (Wis.), who is
Chairman of the Republican Congressional
Committee. has just returned from a trip
to Wisconsin. and he declares that the Re-
publicans will win in the Badger State this
year. lie says that if outside politicians
will persist in seeing disaster to the Ma
tional ticket in that State, they ought to