Evening star., 1921-09-18

the chairman of the national COM
mittee and the Hon. Dunk Tunkem
know that Jim is a power in his
state and that to keep him bought
He is a crook with so many crooks
in him that he has taught his con-
stituents to call him Honest Jim"
He gets high office. something that
is very distinguished.
Well, Honest Jim has a wife. When
they were married she was peeling
onions in tie kitchen of the Com
E,ercial Hotel on Main street in the
town of Yap. And after she quit
peeling onions she never learned any
thing else But when she came to
Washington she entertained at teas
She had forgotten all about the
onion-peeling days. Could she asso-
ciate with a tavernkeeper's daughter?
Not much! Why. that tavernkeeper's
daughter must be very ordinary
person! '"The men say she's beauti-
full. intelligent and interesting. So
much the worse-for that 1 hate her
all the more! I'll denounce her as a
tavernkeeper's daughter and IN
throw out hints which will grow as
they are repeated that she is even
" orse than a tavernkeeper's daugi-
ter"
The wives of politicians in Wash
ington at the time of Andrew Jack
son surely did heap abuse on Peggy
they dared to say and urged their
husbands on to saying worse. And
the man who writes this takes pleas
ure in dof1ng his hat to the memory
of old Andy Jack son for standing up
for this little woman, even though
his cabinet tumbled. even though
John c. Calhoun was beaten for sue
cession to Jackson as President OF
the United States and even though
Chevalier Bangaman Huygens. min
ister of the Netherlands. was re-
Andrew jackson stood by this wom-
an ard her husband. John Henry
Eaton, in way that ought to make
every plain and common sense man
feel pride in Jackson The gossips
then coupled Jackson's name with
the worse for the gossips. You
know, the gcssirs. influential wings
and whig newspapers had said and
printed very much the same kind of
matter about Andrew jackson and
his wife that the Washington gos-
and John Henry Eaton and Peggy
'O'Neal and Andrew Jackson.
There is short bit of material con-
cerning Peggy O'Neal in the Ency-
clopedia Britannica and it follows:
Margaret ONeal Eaton. 17ss-1s7o. we'll
known As Peggy O'Neal. was the daughter Of
the keeper Of a popular Washington tavern
and was noted for her beauty. wit and vivac-
fly: About 1923 she married a purser in the
committed suicide while ON service in the
Mediterranean in 1928. In the following year
she married John Henry Eaton. 1890 1855.
the United States Senate.
Senator Eaton was close personal friend OF
Secretary Of War. vii This sudden % Elevation ' OF
Mrs. Eaton into the cabinet social circle was
resented by the wives Of several Of Jackson's
Of improper conduct with Eaton previous to
her marriage to him. The refusal Of the wives
5s SO he
tried to cOerce them.
Eventually and partly for this reason he al
effect Of the incident on the political fortunes
Of Vice President John c. Calhoun. whose wife
was one Of the s resaieitrants: 1t;: was pe5hsPs %
sons favor was transferred from Calhoun to
Martin Van Buren. the Secretary of State: who
had taken Jackson's side in the quarrel and
had shown marked attention tO.Mrs Eaton. and
whose subsequent elevation to the presidency
| through Jackson's favor was no doubt partly
Eaton accompanied her husband to Spain. where
he was United States minister from 1886 to
After the death of her husband she married
a young italian dancing master. Antonio
Buchisnani. but soon obtained a divorce from
him She died in Washington, November g.
X r X X
A NToNIo BUcHIGNANI was a
\ teacher in Marinis Dancing
Academy. The marriage was very
injudicious one and caused a great
deal of pain to many Washington peo-
ple. and there is no use in recounting
that part of the story. Old women
sometimes make the mistake which old
men often make.
A brief geographic sketch Of Secre-
tary Eaton is found in Ben: Perley
Poore's Political Register, and here
it is:
John Henry Eaton was born in Tennessee in
1870, received n thorough English education.
ticed at Nashville: was elected to the United
States Senate from Tennessee as a dmocrat In
place Of George w. Campbell, resigned, and
was unanimously elected, serving from Novem-
Der 18, 1918, to March, 1929. when he re-
signed. Was appointed Secretary Of War by
his personal friend, President Jackson. serving
from March 9. 1929. to June 1s. 1881. when
the other members Of the cabinet refusing to
call upon her, resigned. was appointed COVER
nor Of Florida. serving from 1884 to 1885 /:
was appointed minister to Spain. serving from
March 16, 1886, to May l, 1910; resided In
Washington city and died there November II,
1856. Published life Of Andrew Jackson.
There are bold inaccuracies as to
dates and some inaccuracies as to
other things in the encyclopedia and
in Poore's Register.
In ApDletOn'S EncycloDedia Won will