The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-27

have lived to mans estate. The sons
of Cleveland and Roosevelt are still
bows.
OF the twenty-one Presidents sons
who have reached manhood, nine have
bulked large in the public eye on their
own account. and all but one or two
have stood well among those who
knew them best; have been solid, sub
stantial citizens. The prominent nine
are John Quincy Adams, President,
diplomatist and congressman; Charles
Francis Adams, publicist and states
man; Robert Tyler register of the
Confederate treasury; Richard Tay-
Tor, who served with distinguished gall
lantry on the Confederate side of the
civil War; John Van Buren,, promi-
nent in state politics and just enter
ing national politics when he died;
robert Todd Lincoln, cabinet minis
ter, diplomatist and president of a
world-famous corporations; Frederick
Dent Grant, diplomatist and general
IN the army; Henry A. Garfield, law
yer, banker and professor of politics
IN great university, and James r.
Garneld, state senator. United States
ClVll Service Commissioner and Com
missioner of Corporations In the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor.
Besides the nine who have climbed
SO nigh there is John Scott Har-
Iison' who had the unique distinc-
uon OF being the son of one President
and the father of another. He was a.
man of force and with great influence
IN his own state, though he was not a
prominent figure in a national sense.
counting him in, and he surely made
eood, ten, or only one less than half
the residents sons who have reached
nnanhood are entitled to be named on
the roll of honor.
The Greatest Presidents Son.
Onquestionably. John Quincy Adams
was the greatest Presidents son. Even
Mnen boy he was the closest friend
sIlo companion of his eminent father,
WIN whom he went to France at the
1sse OF II years. At 10 he taught Eng
iIsh TO De La Luzerne, a French Am
passador. Soon afterward he went to
IT1oIand with his father and set the
Dutch agog by the knowledge he dis
played or Batarian antiquities. At IS
ns was secretary to his father in Rus
sra He was graduated from Harvard
at y studied law and practiced 1t
aWhlle, but soon entered public life.
lie served as Minister to Portugal and
e-tterward TO Prussia. Recalled because
VI political changes, he entered the
sSate legislature and later the House
OF representatives. He was inaug1-
Trs.ed President in 1925, and is the only
resident who ever sat in Congress
ster the close of his term as Chief
.nagistrate. His whole life was one OF
sIeat usefulness to his country, yet as
ne ne trled to lay out a middle course be-
Meen the conservatism of the old reg
ine ana the radicalism OF the new,
ne was az times condemned impartially
almost everybody. Possibly his
sreateSt services we're rendered In the
ssesotiatlons OF treaties IN the ten years
eroin 1903 20 1919, when the United
states was new and stood In need Of
great trenty-maker.
sharles Francis Adams. the son Of
Sohn Quincy, a lawyer by profession.
vas member of the Massachusetts,
...ssielature and the National Congress.
,eeilnlsier 20 England, member Of the
,e'heta Tribunal ~ is1i-52, and ran for
.ssinent on the Free Soil ticket In
M hlH son. Charles Francis. was "a
N-iaisr ~ the Civil War, coming out =