The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-23

display it in any house she has lived in since.
The campaign of 1912 was a difficult one for
this daughter of one leader and wife of another
who were going separate ways, although that
never made the slightest difference in the per-
sonal relations of the two men their respect
for each other. Nick Longworth stayed on the
stand-pat Republican side of the fence, to save
his own political life, and this fact made it more
or less impossible for Alice to campaign openly
for her father.
Throughout her fathers career she was 10y
al passionate and complete partisan of his.
Those who succeeded him in the Presidency
somehow usurperS in her eyes. SO when
the break between Roosevelt and Taft came she
took something of savage delight in the defeat
of Taft in 1912. She regarded him as an ami
able and good-natured" follower of her father
who had been quite outside his rights when he
had broken away from 7. RS policies.
ITO me there something not quite pleas
ing in the idea of my dear Mr.. Taft great
man, and still less pleasing a great President,
rubbed in by my in-laws, too! There
was also an unmistakable attitude ON the part
of members of his family of here he is where
he ought to be- and we don't owe so very much
to Roosevelt anyway; he could have got along.
quite well without him."
In reply to an invitation to the White House
inaugural lunch, Mrs. Longworth explained to
MIS-. 1dlI that size HllSHL HOl De dDlc W ullcAu,
as she was seeing her father off for New York
at noon. Mrs Taft said most civilly that was all
right and in case did decide to come, she would
send me ticket, so that should be able to get
into the White House. flew shouting
to friends and relatives with the news that l
was going to be allowed to have ticket to per-
NIT me to enter the White House-I-a very
large capital l. Indeed l gave myself
over to pretty fair imitation of mischief maxi
ing"
Woodrow Wilson was her fathers political en-
envy, so he was her enemy, too and so when
President Wilson got back from Paris
l went down to the station and parked on the
outskirts of the crowd. It was a sparse crowd
there was very little cheering l
hurried uptown to see how many people turned
out to greet him he entered the White House
grounds There were not more than two or three
hundred. got out of my motor and stood on the
curbstone fingers crossed, making the sign of
the evil eye and saying: "A murrain on him,
murrain on him, murrain on him."
AS for succeeding Presidents and admnistra-
lions, princess Alice has some rather acid COM
ment Harding was not bad man. He was
just slob." Coolidge changed the atmosphere
of the White House from that of the back room
of a speakeasy to that of New England parlor."
II should say that his (Hooyer's) nomination
was primarily owing to the huge publicity or
ganization that he and his supporters had built
up and kept on the job for him." "The present
President Roosevelt has the name of Roosevelt,
marked facial resemblance to Wilson and no
perceptible aversion, to say the least, to many
of the policies of Bryan"
The much-talked-of Gann-Longworth social
war" she lays to foolish mistake by newspa-
pers 1t was not matter of social precedence
between her and Mrs Gam, she says, but
question as to whether Mrs. Gam. as hostess
for Vice President Curtis, should precede wives
of foreign ambassadors at official and semi-offi-
cial dinner parties. 1T seems to me the word
hostess has lost its meaning or acquired a new
one since it has become associated with night
clubs and hotels" she adds by way of comment.
The immediate cause of the whole affair was
a dinner at the Eugene Meyers dry" house
and Speaker Longworth seized upon the Gam
precedent quarrel as an excuse for not going to
this "dry" dinner party.
.Of course. obviously. there never was any
row; anyone who knew me was aware that rank
and conventionaity were things l always fed
from and shirked could not very well tell the
true story--that Nick had seized a straw to
avoid dry dinner, so all | could say was. I
have really nothing to do with IT,
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