The Washington times., 1912-06-23

t!eneSieTe Clark. The W." speaker @ :
daughter Is keen and enthuriaetic
distinguished fathers fitness for the
Presidential candidacy.
Tuesday afternoon, at the baseball
game, when the Speaker was one OF
the privileged few allowed on the field
first game in Washington since the
meteoric rise of the Nationals to a
position of prominence in the league,
Bennett was close beside his distin-
guished father, one of the most en-
Though there has been little doing in
n social way, Washington society has
gone baseball mad Of late, and in the
throng at the big game Tuesday there
were many notables much in evidence.
The President and Mrs. Taft. accom-
panied by the Vice President, and the
Secretary of State and Mrs. Knox, oc-
cupied the Presidential box.
But to get back to the convention at
Baltimore-both Washington and Balti-
more have capitulated to the charms OF
Mrs. Anne Hamilton Pitzer, the woman
delegate from Colorado. who Is to cast
her vote for her distinguished brother
in-law, Champ Clark.
Mrs. Pitzer's appearance suggests
nothing OF the suffragette and, in fact,
she decries in her gentle voice, the
methods of her militant sisters in the
cause In England. She Is womanly In
every sense Of the word and quite the
most compelling exponent Of their
cause the women of Colorado could
have chosen TO represent them. She
is most inordinately proud of her mis-
sion, too. and though she has voted
an especial privilege.
1 Mrs Underwood, wife OF the gen.
tleman from Alabama, ,'sis a we'll versed
and enthusiastic politician and expects
n hA Inc IoN h.
will have but little time for society as
she Is anxious to miss not moment
from the doings of the politicians In
! the big hall. and has already declined
Of her boys has arrived from school ir
Alabama and will accompany his moth.
er on her trips back and forth each
day.
Congressman and
Wife To Be Hosts.
Congressman and Mrs j. Charlie,
Linthicum have invited a number OF
Washington folk to be their house
guests for the week, and Mr.. and Mrs
| Walter B. Brooks. jr., the latter for
merly Louise Cromwell. of Washington
have asked several Of the younger con
| tingent to be their guests at their hom,
in the Green Spring Valley during the
| The blind Senator from Oklahoma
and Mrs. Gore have already esta b1ishe
their quarters at the Hotel Emerson fol
the time and Mrs. Arthur Lee, daughter
of the former Senator from West Vir'
ginia, Henry Gassaway Davis. is to bt
| the guest OF friends from tomorrow on.
Several prominent Washington folk
| some not even identified with the politi
cal world, have taken houses or suites
| at the various hotels for the week, anC
are already established there or will gC
over tomorrow. Numerous others have
arranged to make the trip back anc
! forth each day.
! Yesterday the incoming trains from
the West were crowded with many whC
attended the Republican convention dur
! ing the week in Chicago
One party which arrived in the morn
| ing and remained but a few hours in
cluded Miss Laura Merriam. daughte
| of the former governor OF Minnesota
| and Mrs. w. R. Merriam and her aunt
| Mrs. Frank Mitchell.
! Mrs. Mitchell and Miss Merriam lef
| Washington last Sunday for the thicl
Of events in Chicago, and shortly afte