Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-24
WHITE HOUSE SOCIETY
How nconcerned Foraker Appeared There After "TOaSting'' Teddy How Indiiierenees MingIe With the Mighty Many at the Social Functions.

Special to the Graphic.
 Washington, D. C. Jan. 24.-Just now the pot in which Presidential pol itics is boiled is beginning to simmer here in a gleeful fashion With the retirement of Postmaster General Cortelyou from the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee and the designation of Harry s. New, of Indianapolis, as acting chairman, the first real heat was applied to the pot and now one scarcely hears any thing but it's bubbling Even the Brownsville colored troops incident has been dwarfed into comparative inT ignificance for the time and at the principal social functions and in cap litol committee rooms national politics is the principal topic of gossip-in- deed of earnest discussion
 The present situation emphasizes I curious and important fact regarding Washington. In no other city in America are so many important so- sial functions heid They are inn portant not only to Washington so- ciety, but to the people of the cOun- try, because, oftentimes momentous decisions and agreements concerning legislation and national politics are reached at them. It is queer game that is played in Washington official society. Men are brought together at a dinner or at a notable reception who, if they had met on the street, would merely bow distantly to one another. It not infrequently happens that political enemies thus are thrown together. They get different view of each other from any they have had before and instances are known of such men healing their differences over glass of wine at the table of tactful host Or hostess.
 Only a few weeks ago it was won- dered whether Senator Foraker would attend the New Years reception at the White House. People could scarcely understand how he could call on the president after he had ex- pressed so much bitterness of feeling not only over the Brownsville case, but over the politics which is to be played in the forthcoming national campaign. Everybody knows that the senior senator from Ohio is a candi- date for the Republican presidential nomination and, too, that he is fight ing President Roosevelt tooth and nail These facts cuts no figure in the matter of his attendance upon the New Years reception. He went, of course, accompanied by Mrs. Foraker, and no one among the thousands was accorded a more cordial greeting by both the President and Mrs Roosevelt than they. The cordiality on both sides was not perfunctory, either, but perfectly sincere. The president and Senator Foraker differ on political questions, but the difference does not affect their personal relations. Both men are too big and broad in mind and in disposition to permit an un- pleasant disagreement to arise out of politics.
 Senator Foraker differs also with Vice President Fairbanks. Both are presidential candidates. They are po- 1 litical opposites in methods and in dis
 position; yet, at the reception of the Vice President and Mrs Fair banks, one of the most important so- cial events of the winter, the Sena- tor and Mrs. Foraker are to be prom inent members of the Fairbanks re-