The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-17
FEAST FOR HARMONY
Democratic Women Win Have
Dolly Madison Dinner.
MRS. CLARK is TO PRESIDE.
Wives Of Other Presidential Posslbil.
tiles Will Sit at Chief Tabls-Mrs.
Cleveland Has Been Invited
40 Guest Of Honor.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington.-The woman Demo.
Gratis Of Washington are to have q
Harmony Dinner on the anniversary
Of the birth Of Dolly Madison, whom
they have chosen as the patron saint
of female Democracy. Dolly Madison
was born SO long ago that it would
be ungallant to give the year, but the
month was May, and the day was the
twentieth. At the dinner will be sew
oral hundred women guests, all Dem
ocrats. The presiding officer by nat
ural right and natural choice will be-
Mrs. Champ Clark, wife Of the speak
Or Of the national house Of represent
atives.
Mrs. Robert C. Wickliffe is recog-
nized, as was some centuries ago a
churchman namesake, as the morning
star of q new movement. Mrs.
Wicklihe is the wife Of the Democratic
representative in congress from the
Sixth Louisiana district. She had
only to impart her thought to other
women connected by marriage, parent
age or sisterly ties with the Demo
Gratis in congress to have it received
with enthusiasm and given the instant
force OF a propaganda. The only thing
about the whole affair which even in
sense Is borrowed appears to be the
thought that harmony dinner" will
be about the right thing. 1t probably
will be remembered that the man
Democrats prepared and carried
through successfully like affair on
the night Of Jackson day, the anniver-
sary of the battle of New Orleans.
At the Jackson night feast Demo
cratic candidates for the nomination
for the presidency sat in elbow-to-el-
bow amity at the chief table. At the
Dolly Madison dinner Mrs. Champ
Clark, Mrs. William J. Bryan, Mrs. Os-
car w. Underwood, Mrs. Woodrow Will
son, Mrs. Judson Harmon, Mrs.
Thomas r. Marshall, Mrs. John A. Dix,
Mrs. Eugene N Foss, and Mrs. Will
liam Randolph Hearst will sit at the
first table to help give the grace Of
harmony with the grace Of other
things to the occasion.
Mrs. Cleveland May Be There.
It Is possible that Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land will be present at the dinner.
She has been invited, but it is not GER
tain yet that she will be present. II
Mrs. Cleveland shall come, she will
be, by right Of the fact that she is the
widow Of a president of the United
States, the chief guest Of the occasion.
but otherwise there will be no recog-
milton Of rank Mrs. Alton B. Parker
called from a distance will have as
close table companions women de-
ecendants direct and collateral of sew;
oral presidents Of the United States.
Among the chief executives who will
be represented through posterity" are
Thomas Jefferson. Martin Van Buren,,
Andrew Jackson, James Monroe and
John Tyler. &. j. ..s.
The younger generation of Democ-
racy will be well represented on the
occasion. The daughters will be there
in numbers, "a goodly array" it is /
0ssAO VI oI4CE yOuIA d11u AOVclae
ness. The walls Of the big dining
room are to do duty as a framework (
for flowers. The music will be patriot
&c and not partisan, but the toasts In
part will be to the welfare of Demo-
cratic principles, to the deeds of Dem.
ocratic women, and to harmony among
Democrats regardless Of sex. Mrs.
Champ Clark is to be the toast mis-
tress.
Directory for Souvenir.
The committee Is now preparing
what 1t is understood to be the SON
Venir Of the occasion, book which is
10 contain, in rather finer form" than
the Congressional Directory, the biog.
raphies Of the women whose husbands
or brothers or fathers are now franz
Ing legislation for the United States In
accordance with the principles Of the
Democratic elders. It Is understood
that each biography IS to be limited
to 100 words, and thereby the women
will set good example Of brevity,
and perhaps Of truth, to the legtsla-
tors Of the land
Why was Dolly Madison chosen 40
the patron saint Of this organization
Of Democratic women? They first
thought OF Martha Washington. but