The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-03
NAvYS NEW HEAD
RELATIVE or FIRST NAPOLEON
 WILL SUCCEED NORTON.
Is Friend of RooseveIt-Known as Reformer. and strenuous 0ppOn-
 ent of Fraud and Graft,
Washington Special to Chicago Trl-

Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore, Md. grand nephew of the great Ma poleon, will succeed Paul Morton ss Secretary of the Navy July l. Mr. Morton will become General Manager of a New York subway system which the Thomas F. Ryan syndicate IS pre- pairing to build.
 The presence of a granddaughter of the great Napoleon in the cabinet will not be without sentimental interest here as well as abroad, and the ap- pointment promises, in some respects. to be the most notable Roosevelt has made. The President and his future Secretary of the Navy have been friends for many years. MT. Bona parte touched elbows with President Roosevelt when both were fighting the battles of civil service reform
 The President demonstrated his con- fidence in his old time associate, who is brilliant lawyer. by naming him as a special attorney in the prosecu- tion of Machen and other offen 1ers in the postal cases. Bonapartes special ty. ever since he graduated from the Harvard law school in 1874, has been fighting all kinds of fraud and graft in the public service. He was giving and taking heavy blows in .he light for better municipal politics when Theodore Roosevelt left Harvard. where the name of Charles J. Bona parte for ten years then had been a prominent one among the undergrad uates.
 Champion of President.
 President Roosevelt has championed Mir. Bonaparte as earnestly as MT. Bonaparte has championed President Roosevelt. They have long had ties in common, and 1t seemed more than
 Ia VI Maryland, trembling in the balance between the two political parties. Be- naparte was the only Republican cleo tor who pulled through, and cast the only vote in the electoral college for the Republican President His major ity was something like 200. and was due to the fact that his was the first name on the electoral ticket
 If the new Secretary of the Navy fails to keep official Washington agog with excitement he will be departing from all precedents in his career Men diner widely in their estimate of him, as they generally do of a politi- cal reformer. A reformer MT. Bona parte always has been. and Is proud of that distinction. He has been known as a Republican in national politics, but at the same time often has been independent enough to, speak out in Int pldlntbL bGIln1 0GnuHCAatioA BOk AAAO party. He has been known as the leader of the independents in Balti- more. and in State and municipal poll itics frequently has co-operated with the Democrats.
 His entry into the cabinet will make him the most prominent Republican in Maryland, an eminence that the rank and file of Republicans in that State hardly will welcome. He will become pariah among the leaders of both parties because of his brutal frankness and deliberate disregard for things es- tablished. such as party regularity. For years he was the leading spirit of the Baltimore Reform League, and the Executive Committee long held its meetings in his office. It has been written of him that in his head he carries the chief records of the reform league-"brief, pithy biographies of local politicians; cold, deadly, and ac- curate chronicles of gratis and deals"
 Figures in Stirring Incidents.
 The President hardly could have se- lected a more interesting personality for his cabinet from anywhere In the country Of course, 1t occurs first to nearly everybody that Charles Joseph Bonaparte is of the family of the great conqueror of Europe and a grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, once king of Westphalia The story of his grand mother, the beautiful Elizabeth Pat terson of Baltimore. and her brief but romantic marriage with Napoleon s brother has been told and retold a thousand times in the newspapers and periodicals. But that is one of the least things for which Charles J. Bo- naparte Is famous, and he. it is said. dislikes too frequent mention of his distinguished forbears.
 Few years. have passed in the last quarter of a century without his name figuring in some incident of peculiar interest. During the latter portion of President McKinley's term he sprang Into notice as an &mti-imperialist. When 1t was proposed that Harva I'd College should confer the degree of LL D. upon Mckinley, Bonaparte, one of the overseers of Harvard, fought vigorously, and brought upon himself the criticism of the Presidents friends.
 A long time ago he expressed the opinion that free education Is as de- moralizing as free food and free drink, and was dubbed "Souphouse Charlie" in derision. But the Baltimore public, while praising much that he has done. and likewise disapproving much. has indulged in other designations of him. When President Roosevelt appointed him special attorney in the postal cases in Baltimore they called him sometimes Charlie the Crook Chaser. p
 Never Aspirant for once.
 During one of his strenuous cam paigns he enjoyed another name. as '"The Peacock of Park Avenue" his fine old residence, containing the great est collection of souvenirs of the first consul and emperor of France pos sessed by either the American or Eu- ropean branch of the family, being lo- cated on that thoroughfare He is aristocratic in his associations, politi- cal and otherwise
 Bonaparte never figured as an aspi- rant for office, and whatever official honors he has held have been thrust upon him in recognition of nis un- questioned integrity and high ideals about public administration. He has entered the fray for or against the Republicans in Maryland as his fud9- ment of political righteousness seemed to dictate. When he had fought his fight he retired and ceased 70 be &C., tive in political matters till another opportunity for crusade was offered.
 The President authorized the state ment that no other change in the pe-- sonnel of the cabinet was likely to take place in the near future. Sec retary Shaw already has indicated his intention of retiring from the cabinet. probably next February Rumors If the retirement of Attorney General Moody have been published, but if is understood to be his intention now to continue in the cabinet for a year and