The Washington times., 1924-06-25
MRS. NJ ADO0. IS
REAL AIDE TO
HUSBAND
Her Presence Oks a Social,
Atmosphere to His Head
quarters, Says Jesa Elliott

Atmosphere to His lead
quarters, Says Jeag Eliot
Continued from First Pags) il
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Breckiffidge
until long after the convention is
over. -
Davis In Background. X
Although John w. DAVIS, de,
scribed as o. receptive candidatsgp
is keeping rather in the back.
ground, he and MRS. Davis have
come up to town from their sum
mer home on Long Island and will
be the guests of friends until the
close of the convention. Senator
and Mrs. Oscar Underwood are also
staying with friends-identity not
dtsclosed-haKing arrived In town
on Monday. Mrs. Underwood ID
occasionally tc be found &C ner
dorf. -
Senator and Mrs. carer Glass
are staying at the Waldorf, their
two daughters andltheir sons being
D.
Joseph Robinson are. also at the
hotel which u.s. now the hub of the
political universe. Senator Rafston
is not in town, but Isl probably lis
tening in over the radio. Newton
ID. Baker has arrived to place Gov
ernor Cox in nomination and to
see the initiation Of little boomfet
of his own. Such a John Alden
proceeding as the selection 81 IA
man who had placed a friends In
nomination would not be without
precedent, for it win be remembered
that Bryan was sponsoring another
when he stanpeded the convention
with his famous Gross of Cold
speech and Mckinley also was
swept into first place on a r..
publican ticket after having made
nominating speech.
Mrs. Baker In Society.
The thought of Mr.. Baker, Will
sons secretary Of war; being named
as standard. bearer for the Demo,
Gratis has interesting aspects for
Washington, which knows the
Bakers well and likes 'em. Mrs.
Baker made a rather unfortunate
entry into the Capital, preceded by
interviews to the effect that sho
had no use for society and could
not find time for such frivolities.
Whereupon she proceeded to go in
for social activity to a greater
degree than any other woman in the
cabinet, never missing a reception,
q dinner or a tea and going to
dances whenever she could. How
ever, she was so naive in her enjoy.
ment and such a good fellow that
nobody could hold her i'll considered
words against her.
New York is devoting itself en-.
Enthusiastically to the entertainment
of Governor and Mrs. AL Smith,
and insists that it is going to send
them to Washington, which city,
by the way, Mrs. Smith has never
seen. 1t would be a strange chance,
wouldn't it, If on her first visit she
should move into the White House?
Senator Royal Copeland, whose
name persists as possible presi-
dental timber, is at his town house
with Mrs. Copeland, having come in
few days ago from their country
home at Suffern, N. Y. They are
doing a good deal of entertaining
and tomorrow Mrs. Copeland is
having a luncheon in the country
for the Senatorial ladies who are
in New York for the convention.
Governor Richie a Tin God.
Governor ,Ritchie's headquarters
are at the Waldorf and there one
frequently finds him entirely sur.
rounded by Maryland women, TO
whom he is by way of being little
tin god. Mrs. William Cable Bruce,
wife of Senator Bruce, came up
from Baltimore with the Ritchieites
as did Mrs. r. Morrison Henry, of
Baltimore, and Miss Lavinia Engle,
a Washington girl, who is secre-
tary for the Maryland League of
Women Voters. Mrs. Jesse Nichol.
son, of Chevy Chase, is serving as
national committee woman for
Maryland.
The Brooke Lees are also here.
Major Lee, who is secretary of
State for Maryland, being a delegate
and Mrs. Lee, rooter for Governor
Richie. They have a suite at the
Astor, where one may find good
Marylanders gathered at almost
any time. Brooke Lee may be said
to have been born to politics for not
only is he the son of former Senator
Blair Lee, Of Maryland, but he is
descended from Francis P. Blair,
who was in Lincoln's Kitchen Cabi.
net" and his forebearers the Blairs
and the Lees have had part in the
making and governing of the nation
since the days of Light Horse
Harry Lee" Mrs. Lee was a Mary.
lander. too, Miss Elizabeth TVilson
Of Upper Marlboro, and this good.
looking young couple now make
their home at Silver Spring, the
old Blair estate in Maryland.
There are echoes of the Wilson
administration in the presence OF
such shining lights there of al
Josephus Daniels, A. Mitchell
Palmer, Joseph tP. ,Tumulty and
Ray Baker. haven't seen Mrs
Daniels, but Mrs. Palmer is here
and so is Mrs. Tumulty. Mrs. OH
yer p. Newman came to New York
with Major Newman, an ardent I'm
derwood man, but has been con
fined to her room with a. cold ali
week. Mrs. Palmer is wearing the
biggest hat yet seen, black and un
trimmed, and Ray Baker the straw
hat with the broadcast brim.
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