New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-02
DEMOCRATIC WOMEN
TO EAT IN HARMONY
Dolly Madison Breakfast viii
Bring Together a Most
Notable Gathering.
REPRESENTATIVES OF PARTY
Wives. Daughters and Descend
ants of Men Known in Past
and Present Will Be
There.
REPRESENTATIVES OF PARTY
From The Tribune Bureau

washington. May 1.-The Democratic
uor,en's harmony breakfast, or, as it is
called the Dolly Madison breakfast. which
an be given here on May 20. the birthday
~ Dolly Madison, promises to he one Of
the most notable all-woman political affairs
ever given In the capital. if not in the
.ountrv All Of the men who have Presi-
a.rtial aspirations in the Democratic party
all ne represented by their wives. Mrs
Cbsmp clark, Mrs William Jennings
Rrvan. Mrs. Judson Harmon. Mrs. Oscar
underwood Mrs John A. Dix. Mrs. Alton
Parker. Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Kern.
~ Indiana: Mrs Folk. Mrs. Eugene Foss
and Mrs William Randolph Hearst. all re-
,nopding 10 invitations in the affirmative.
Mrs Grover Cleveland probably will be
the guest Of honor. and Mrs Champ Clark
will be toast mistress. Should Mrs Cleve-
land attend she will sit at Mrs. Clark $
right and YRS. William Jennings Bryan at
the left
The breakfast will indeed represent the
Democratic party. past present and fut-
IRE. for invitatiOns-at s. each-are extend
Cd only 70 women whose fathers. husbands
mr. brothers or forebears have been in
Democratic official life
This will bring TO Washington many dis
tinguished women from all parts OF the
United States. there being eighty-tive
nroninent Democratic women on the list
70 promote the breakfast and enlist inter-
IS, Forty-four women will represent
Democrats in the United States Senate.
a3D the House and four the Supreme Court
while many who have at some time figured
In official life are included in the twelve
hundred invited.
Mrs. Champ Clarks table will be called
the table of honor. and next in interest
will be the presidents and ice-presidents
table At the latter one Of the most inter
esting persons will be Mrs. Mary cults
Craig. seventy-seven years old. grandniece
OF James Madison. fourth President OF the
United States She has known such men as
Clay. Calhoun and Webster. Another in
teresting woman at this table will be Miss
Fanny Virginia Burke, one Of the hneaI
descendants Of Thomas jefferson, being
fifth in line from his eldest daughter she
is related to the Tyler. Monroe, Van Buren,
and jackson families.
Mrs. Samuel L. Giouverneur will be pres
ent with her three daughters They are
descendants Of Monroe. Miss Mary VIII
cox will be one Of the representatives, OF the
Jackson administration. her mother having
been the first child born in the White
House.
At the table with Mrs. Clark will be Mrs
Adele Stevenson, whose husband was wee
President when Grover Cleveland was Chief
Executive. Mrs. Clevelands daughters
Esther and Marian Cleveland, will prob
ably grace the daughters table. Where
also will sit Miss Genevieve Clark, the
Misses Wilson, daughters Of Mr.. and Mrs
Woodrow Wilson; Miss Carrie Lee Cham
berlain. Miss Ruth Hitchcock, the Miss IS
O'Gorman, Miss Sally WilUams and sew
eral other schoolgirls and debutantes whose
fathers have made or are making history
The flowers will be the old-fasmoned
kind used when Dolly Madison walked
through the trim gardens that SURROUNDED
the white House or garden at the octagon
house. and will be one Of the many delight
full features Of the breakfast The sou-
venirs will be silver snuff boxes, which also
obtained during the Madison admlnstra-
ton. and which Will bear a miniature OF
Dolly Madison. lfesize portrait or her
will stand in a conspicuous place In the
banquet room as an inspiration for many
toasts and speeches.
Not the least interesting feature Of the
breakfast will be the many hetrlooms worn
by the women, every administration from
Adams and jefferson down. being represent
ed There will be laces, jewels. high combs
and parts Of historic costumes gracing the
v,earers at the tables