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WOODROW WIliSOK AM? VIRGINIA.
In a suikins and forecful lottos to
The Times-Dispatch. Dr. R, Heath
Dcbnoy professor of history at the
University of Virginia, asks why It is
that Virginia, the State in which
Woodrow Wilson was born should be
? ?o cool towards his candidacy for the
presidency of these United Stntos. The
question Is largely answered b> nr.
Dabney himself in his suggestion that
Virginians arc n conservative people.
That conservatism has showed itself
In many ways- For example, It is In-I
conceivable to Virginians how any
Stato could desire or tolerate the re- j
call of Judgee The courts of this;
State have boon honest The JudgesI
nave been above reproach, and the
'politics! Instinct of the people, sees;
? tho destru Hen of law and order which I
'necesBBiilv fellows upon the recall of
judges oy popular vote- The law must,
ttt above the mob or the mob will b? ?
abnvs ihc law. Governor Wilson's!
?statement of his absolute opposition'
to the recall of Judges under any j
conditions should make his position
elcar and un-loubtcd Intimi particular, j
,'Aiid while the reel! of judges Is be
? Ing discussed, it is "ell t" remember!
that when he was in California, where j
!the recall of Judges was almost being
made a teat of patriotism, Governori
i "Wilson took as strong a stand us,
President Taft against that insane
doluslon. I
In his letter to Dr. Dsbney, Gov?
ernor Wilson says, "As for the recall,
lit Is seldom used outside the inunlcl- !
IpeJItles." In view of tho grant doubt- '
guineas that has attended the recall,
even for municipal officers, Governor
Wilson might well have said that he
'thought the recall was an uncertain
und by no meant established safeguard,
under any conditions. Taking the ex- (
porienco of cities as far apart as ,
Houston and Tncoma, It may bo doubt-1
ed whether the bitterness stirred up I .
over a "recall election" Is not more
harmful to the community than the
peaceful and old;fashloncd method of
waiting for the disliked otllclul's term1;
to expire, or. In desperate cases, re- I
sorting to tho courts. | 1
Of this and similar newfangled '
methods for paining political perfec- 1
tlon by get-rich-quick methods. Vir-i '
glnlft is content to say. Other peoples, 1
other customs." What dor s concern ' 1
this State, however, and concern '< '
ven deeply, is the mental pri
I 1
his mind almost overnight on t i\? ? value
of the Initiative and referendum.
It 1e fair to admit that until the very
trecent experiment.- in Oregon the in?
itiative and referendum hud been gen?
erally used only by Swit7.erl.tnu Based
cm the. workings of the Initiative and
(referendum there. Governor Wilson,
/"?Vbo was then teaching political econ- j
toioy ai Princeton,ff ecla jied against i
there r.-.ethods of' determining "i en?
forcing t!:- populur will Hut when
I be visited Oregon Govornoi Wilson
foun'i tacts In fnvor of the initiative
tind referendum which floored him.
We art- not tullv fomlliiir with the
conditions that made ilio initiative and
:'? isiXcrcnduin a success In that Statt-,
; though wo have carefully studied Scn
6 fetor Bourne's speeches In that corinet:
v tlon. Nor An we understand why the
r> same political Intelligence and energy]
necessary to make those methods of
jCectu&l means for carrying out ihc
: j)uwill could not have achieved the '
? same result* through legislation by
representatives. But Governor Wilson
CJW8S on the ground, und upOn view'ing
f.'-rtwlth .in open mind ilic lliets, he ?..a>
I convinced that th<- means adopted lij
I the people of Oregon wei. adu|h ;ibj>
'f udaptt-d tq the restoration of ii olti
: venshtp, or rather ? l?.dlii< i ami
j pherc in which rcprcsctiiiitivi i
.'-Ration, as tho best known form ol law
'.making, could be re-established In it-.
: original vigor.
' It Is gratifying to Im - Covei nor!
' (Wilson's statement -thai :> t oulj by ?
; himself, but also bj the lory men I
5 -who now support and in-.- the Inlila-j
Jj tive, referendum iinil recfcll in ?<>. ion, I
those measures are regard, i as mi r<
S temporary expedients foi m: biting th.
?* gulf between a brokendu ml i i,..
stored government , ? -? n ?>
The heart of the whole limttei ii. . In
the distinction between :>:, t until
representative legislation ii was tin
I belief, s belief that now appears inj
be clearly unfounded, thai Governor
. I Wilson. In the enthusiasm ol i.i v., t
[j f.rn oxperienc'-", had nbsndoned gov
ernm.?nt by elected and (iompctei.t leg
,- telator*. for governincnt bi 'i.. up.
ttrained and unskilled body --f voters m
la"-', that disiieaftened aim :i< .
'the- ardor of his trlends in Vlrginl i
|! Yet even In Virginia the mere ig
f?i-stlon of a referendum does poi
?!pi'rr: wltli ii ih'- necessary imjillcHllon
??Pi wild radicalism, else wiiat shall
.hi, is id .of the voters Wlui" have de
Bisndet) and legislators who have prom
ls?r i, state-wide vote on State'-wkle
prohibition?' Tho motives behind that
demand are either the bellet that rep?
resentative government win tall to
represent, or the fear that represen?
tative government will not give the
laws that the Prohibitionists desire.
Thceo are tho eame motives that
havo actuated Oregon, and while the
oooeptance of tho conclusion In favor
of the initiative and referendum does
not mean that the principle of repre?
sentative government has been aban
doned, it does mean that Its practice
bos boen discontinued In ono or more
'particulars, because the votors, or
some of them, are not willing to lcavo
the settlement of such mattors to their
representatives. "We bcllovo that tho
practice of direct law-making by tho
voters does not glvo hotter laws or
better citizenship. There may have
been a fertile field for the Initiative
and referendum in Oregon. i?uch con?
ditions do not exist In Virginia. Yet
here again Governor Wilson must be
freed from any intention or desire to
force Western methods on Eastern
people. Tn bis letter he declares: "Each
State must Judge for ttseir. I do not
see how It could be made a subject
of national policy."
This letter of Governor Wilson's
merely chronicles tho fact that under
rertaln conditions other States have
found the initiative, referendum und
r.-cal! effective and useful weapons Cor
restoring popular rule, and expresses
the belief that under similar conditions
similarly good results may be expect?
ed. With this viewpoint any man may
disagree without characterising Gov?
ernor Wilson, as Dr. Dabney puts It,
as "insincere in character or Intel?
lectually vacillating."
For its part. The Tlmcs-Dlspatch
expresses no opinion of the vnlue of
the methods In Oregon, but. we do
heartily agree with that distinguished
scholar and statesman, Woodrow WH- I
son, that the Initiative, referendum j
and recall for municipal officers have
no place or portion In the life of Vir?
ginia to-day, nnd that such law-mak?
ing measures are osacntlally local
iltiestlons. to be accopted or rejected
by each State. Salvation for Califor?
nia might prove destruction for Vir?
ginia.
Flnallv. we ar,- glad 10 say that we.
fully adopt Dr. Dahney's statement
Hint Governor Wilson's attitude, as
stated by himself. Involves no reflec?
tion oil his fixity of purpose or clear?
ness of vision. The position of Gov?
ernor Wilson on all public matters Is 1
i matter of profound concern to his
native State, to tho Democratic party
ind to the whole countr;-. nnd his
otter on the Initiative, referendum '
ind recall will clear up many doubts 1
ind quiet many misgivings on the part 1
? f his friends and fellow-citizens in 1
Virginia.
I'llE PUBLIC IS NOT DONE N\liil Mit.I ,
OOMPH3RS. ],
Mr. GotnpcVs is reported as deciar-ji
ng that he is "done with the McNam-P
ira case.'' and, In answer to the BUg-P
res I ion that he cot,id urg< McNamavu|<
o tell all he knows and then get labor I
id of whatever criminals may have 1
>een associated with him and his
?rotner, if any were, he says that he
* ?responsible -.nly to the American',
federation of Labor."
Now. Mr. GomperB may lie. And it lali
iu!te |lkcl> he would, be slud lo ito,\
'done with" this case: hut the case is I
tot done with hl in. U is also quite i
Ikel.y that he will have his hundsj
rather full in answering to his de?
rived ami justly indignant follow- [ !
srs In tin- Federation of Labor for
?avlng shamelessly?or stupidly?dc.i4
uiK-,1 and misled them into giving sila ?
ind comfort and huge llniinclnl sup-1 I
(iort to desperate criminals carrying)1
in a regular campaign of arson and],
nil i der. ),
But by his. leave. Mr. Goinperti IS:'
? l-'. responsible to the nubile whose,1
lulj constituted authorities nnd of-1 .
leers Justice he violently dcnounc-l'
? I (is criminals engaged in a criminal| i
:onsplracy to manufacture evidence,!'
sveh to the extent of committing ar-'!
son and 'murder, for the purpose of'i
"rnllroadlug" innocent men lo their! '
[loom. ?. I '
Mr. Gompcrs was singularly Inno-!"
-ent and confiding singularly Mini to]!
obvious facts, sliisulaiiv helpless to]'
aty to ?Iis-1 j
i racllit I es - ,
practiculiy
w n honest. ? 1
whom he I
believing i
i Is were iu -
Use of or-;
lo- hum
huge fund!
?et, nes. So:
npeis made
s the cause
ii doubtless
In trj lug to.
Is betrayed j
mildes? <>id
minded and!
ol ine IllOHl'
Could not'
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other, With'
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I'llMSIDKNTI Mi PAXM Si
With a banner cotton crop and
j largi Increases in steel orders, even
Uj lower prices; with railroad earn
lings '"Vl'ltng their own .ml building
operations keeping up to the uvernge,
the only comforl a pessimist run Ilm
I is In proclaiming that 1M.2 will be
presidential year. Why this should
be a destroying- faotor to buslnets Is
one of the unsolved mysteries. ITor
presidential yearo have In the main
been better than the panto years that
came between. It the etc ok market Is
any barometer. Wall Street Is already
discounting tariff revisions, and there
Is nothing else before the public, to
cause trouble.
In 1896 there was a panic, but then
the silver question hung over the busi?
ness of this country, and tho fact that
some 6,000,000 voters desired to see
tho gold standard abolished, was rea?
son enough to causo apprehension. As
a matter of fact, tho roal panlo came
In 1693. and 1S9G was just a rovlval
of tho old scare. The depression In
1900 was of short duration, and the
stock market depression of 1901 wub
not reflected In general business, as
shown by tho railroad earnings.
A tnblo of gross railroad earnings
from 1871 to 1910 shows that only In
1870. 1884 and 1003 did tho railroad
earnings fall off as compared with tho
previous years. Tho worst falling off
In tho whole period, of thirty-nine
years was In 189-1 (Jnst half-way bo
tweon two elections). The next worst
falling off was In 1903, whloh followed
tho teriiblo money panio of 1907, and
wns In no way connected with politics
Those who proclaim tho coming of
bad times will havo to find some bot?
ler ground for their fears than the
fact thnl In 1912 the Democratic and
Kepubllcau parties are going to have
a trial of strength.
Since 1907 this country has boon
putting its altair? In order. Wo have
been reducing our debts, piling up our
rcsourcos, Increasing our foreign trade,
and oven if a depression Vero to oonio
(and of this there Is no sign), the
country could not be found In a better
condition to weather the blfiw.
The Atlanta Constitution has a large
front-page plot uro of views of a new
club there. Ono of tho pictures shows
a room tilled with round tables, very
small In circumference, but surround?
ed by eight "elbow" chairs. Probably
these are for congenial gentlemen
who consume the donaturcd buttermilk
lor which prohibition Georgia Is fam?
ous.
In Atlanta they call very old women
who havo spent their lives In Atlanta
"pioneers." but "martyrs"' would be
more accurate.
John Peter Grace. Mayor of Charles,
ton. Is editing Hie "Who's Who" of
that city now. with the expert assist?
ance of Alderman Vincent Chicco.
Hear the Mayor-elect In his declara?
tion of policy:
"This administration was elected by
neglected' Charleston. That portion'
>t It which for so many years has been!
exploiting us for tho benefit of Its',
>wn small section was almost unanl- I
inously against us. My policy will be, j
therefore, to turn the eyes of develop-;
mcnt to the East Side and up-town j
where tho real, icd-bloodcd people of;
Charleston live: the peoplo who pride
themselves on being very much like
.he rest of tho world. Anil when we.
lo this, the rest of the world will be
jlad to come to see us."
This seems to be a revised version of
?Watch Charleston Grow!"
Voice of the People |
Wociilron- Wilson State? 111b Position.
I'o the Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir.?Ono hundred and twenty-two
.ears have elapsed slnro Washington
;vas Inaugurated as President of the
Untied States. Dividing this period
?xa.lly in half, we find that, while
seven native Virginians occupied the
residential chair during tho first half.
iot one has done so during the ssoond.
It Is sixty-one years since Zachary
Faylor died. It Is fifty-nine year.-,
Ince a Virginian CWlnfield Scott) was
veil nominated for Die presidency by |
me of the great parties.
Hut it is a long lane Hint has no |
urning. At last, after weary waiting,!
rirglnln has a golden opportunity to .
renew the glories of the pnst, for the j
yes of multitudes of Americans are
now turned eagerly toward a native of
Virginia ns the foremost statesman of
Ihe land, and are looking forward With
Hopeful resolution to his election as
ihe next President of the United
states.
Vet. strange to say, while other
State.? are hnllinc this Virginian as
Ihelv political Moses, Virginia horscll
is lukewarm?or, at any rate, seems to
,1 So far as 1 nm aware, neither her ,
.iovernor, nor either of her two Sena?
tors nor any one ,.f her ten Represen?
tatives In Congress, has come out and
urged Ills nomination )>y the Demo
italic party.
What i< the explanation of this 1
uils'/.tng fact? simply this. I bcliev.\
Virginia in. m e a conservative people,
itriil a considerable number of them
have been led astray by wholly or
rnnoous statements to tha effect that
Woodrow Wilson Is a radical denia- I
gogue, who is either Insincere In.char- I
lictet or Intellectually too vacillating
to be trusted as a political guide. This '
notion?supremely absurd to those who !
really know th-* man?Is baaed chletly
upon- the fuel that, after disapproving I
for some years, in his Princeton lee-!
tores, of the Initiative, referendum and!
recall, he has now expressed a ?mall - '
Hod approval of tho-- measures. 1
soy a qualified approval Hut most of
those win crltlclv.? him do not know
that Ills approval is emphatically .i
littalllled one. They do not know < t i
that he wholl) disapproves of the re?
call of judges. (Ji l int he thinks each
Stiit.. should Judge for Itself as to the
adoption of either Initiative, referen?
dum or recall. i3i that, even In those
hates whne. ho considers these meas?
ures to have be.en successful, he does
not consider them us anything but a
means to the restoration of represen?
tative government. Ml that he does
not thin); thcte pollcic? desirable In I
Virginia, oi in any state where r;ii
nlne representative government now
e\ist<t. ( ?,, that be regards the. nation?
alisation .>f iherr policies n, wholly
Impr.ietleable, AJ1 of the*- nusliftcn
ti ins to liln approval will ai>rie:,r In the
private letter to me which I give bo
lo.v In addition. 1 will state 'wha| I
know to be a fact, viz: that It w?s In
accordant?,- with Woodrow Wl Iron's I
own deliberate advice thai the \ew
Jersey. Democrats excluded these poli?
ties from the platform adopted Iii their
recent campaign.
But, before giving his letter, let me
?tat? Odo rouos why the reader may
reasonably attach imors weight to my
opinion of Wilson's moral and mental
traits than to the opinion's of some
others. This reason is that I have
known blm personally and intimately
ever since wo met as fsUow-Jtudenti
thirty-two years aero. Long before he
went into political lifo Z expressed the
opinion that he was better fitted for
the presldenoy than any man In the
United States. I know hie char&oter,
and 1 now deolare, with tlvs coolest de?
liberation, and with the utmost earn?
estness, that Oeorg-e Washington him?
self was not moro Inoapable than ho
of even the faintest lnslnoerity, either
In private or In public life. And, as
for the charge that, because bo partly
dhanged hla mind about the Initiative,
referendum and recall, he \? intellec?
tually vacillating. I will call attontlon
to the sentence in his letter of Novem?
ber 16, In which be states that relia?
ble cltlsonB of Oregon floored him flat
with their acoount of the actual work?
ings of those policies In that State.
In regard to this, I wroto to him ro
cently, and ho saye In a letter from
Trenton, dated December 11: "Beforo
tho experiments in Oregon, thoro had
been no American facts to floor me
with. 1 had been going altoguthor
upon my theoretical conclusions as to
how far tho facts In Switzerland would
fit conditions In tho United States."
And bo It remembered that rhoso Ore?
gon exporlments are vory recent things
?so rocent that the great majority of
those who censure Wilson for allowing
Ills views to bo modified by them have
not found tlmu to oxaanlno tho oxporl
monta for themselves. The truth Is
that Wilson, like all statesmen, as well
as all scientific thlnkors. who are both
opon-mlndod and honest, modified hie
thoorlos when confronted with new
faots. Even Infallible Popes have
ceased to deny tho existence of the
Antipodes since Magellan's ship cir?
cumnavigated tho globe.
Immediately beneath my signature
T give Woodrow Wilson's letter, and
SlnoSToly hope that It will dispel the
erroneous conceptions concerning him
and cause all Virginians to rally
around bis victorious banner.
Tt. If. DABNTDY.
ITntv. of Virginia. Dec. 13. 1911.
Wilson'? Letter.
Sin union. Vs., Nov. 16, 1911.
-My Dear Heath: Wo did not have a
chance when I was with you to .lave
our talk out about tho Initiative, ref?
erendum and recall; It may be worth
while, therefore, in view of the Impor?
tance of tho subject, for mo to sum?
marize somewhat more formally what
1 said to you In scraps.
In the first place, with regard to my
own state of mind. I surrendered to
tho facts, as every candid man must.
My whole prepossession?my whole
reasoning?was against these things.
Bui when I came Into contact with
candid, honest, /public Merited men
who could Bpeak (with regard, for ex?
ample, to Oregon) from personal ob?
servation and experience. th}y floored
mc fist with their narration of what
had actually happened. 1 found in the
men who had advocated these things,
who had put tjieni Into operation, and
who had accomplished things by thorn,
not critics or opponents of representa?
tive government, hut men who were
eager to restore It where it had been
lo.it. and who had taken?successfully
taken?thesi means to recover for the
people what' they had unquestionably
l?st?control of their own affairs.
In short, thoy wcro not trying to
change our Institutions. The Initiative,
referendum and recall wer: In their
eyes <u.s they are in mine) merely a
means to an end?that end being the
restoration of thA control of public
opinion. Where opinion already con?
trols, where thero !s now actual, gen?
uine representative government, as I
bclleva there Is In Virginia and in the
South in general, they are not neces?
sary. Each State must Judge for Itself.
I do not see how It could he made a
subject of national policy. The people
will. In my inplnlon, demand these
measures only where they are mani?
festly necessary to take legislation and
tho control of administrativ-! action
away from special, hopelessly In?
trenched Interests. They are no gen?
eral or universal panaceas!
The recall of Judges I nin absolutely
against, and always hawi been. It Is
a remedy for a symptom, not for a
disease?the disease being the control
of the system by Influences which gen?
ern! opinion hr?3 ceased to control.
It interested mo very much to find
that even In Oregon literally no one
thought of these new methods >f no?
tion as a Substitute for representative
Institutions, but only as n means of
Stimulation and control. They arn as
divotod to the idea of our represcnta
flvo Institutions as we are?and arc
bent upon realizing these ideas in
practice. Thst is their conscious ' ob?
ject.
As for the recall jt |a sridnm used
outside tho municipalities. T do not
renioniber an instance of its use on n
State officer. It Is merely be.
hind the door."
Faithfully yours.
WOODROW WTESON.
La Marquise de Fonrenoy
oy.w.tv. although It spends so
much of Its tlm? on tho water,
either traveling or cruising for
pleasure, is rarely shipwrecked. Tt Is
necessary to explain' thin in ordor to
appreciate tho sensation created In
Europe by the shipwreck on the rocky.
M.isl' coast, at night in n storm. of|
i )..? great ocean liner Delhi. ,,n which
ihe princess royal or Great Britain.
Abe Martin
Ever" nolle:; how quickly a feller
that really knows nomelhtu' kin break
up :i discussion'? A feller never shows
his true worth sill ih' week before
he's gpln' t' nsk f git off fer n-fow
days.
WE ARE NOW APPROACHING THE TIME WHEN EVERY HOMF
IS FILLED WITH MYSTERIOUS INTRIGUE AND CONSPIRACY.
By John T. MoCutoheon.
rCDTrrrtirht ? 1*111 By Jcrtrn T. MoCatotMon.l
MAMMA?"Don't come in her*, eft/Wren/ Run oat emd play Bkm a good little girl and boy."
f^PA?"Don't come In here! Run oat and play. hid,. Run along now."
"/ wonder why everybody always wantt us to run out and piny, 1 wonder why."
eldest sister of King George, her two
'daughters, the Princesses Alexandra
and Matld, and her husband, the D?ke
of Kilo, were voyaging to Egypt, where
they are to spend the winter.
The princess royal, who until the
hlrlh ol children to King Ueorge, stood
next to him In the line of succession
lo the throne, has for years been In
such frail health as to necessitate her
spending all the winters on the upper
reaches of the Nile. Under tho cir?
cumstances, it Is pretty well as?
sured that her experiences on tho
nlglu of ihe wreck, when Bhc was lit?
erally dropped from the deck of the
Delhi into the. lifeboat bobbing up and
down In the breakers below, her night
garments merely covered by a cloak,
and was then battered about In the
surf after the capsizing of the life?
boat In beaching and only saved from
drowning through the life-belt around
her waist, and the gallant efforts of
sonic of the snllors, who mannged to
seize her as she was being swept back
into tho breakers by the undertow,
arc certain to have some effect on her
health. Perhaps they may prove a
final and fatal blow. On the other
hand, the shock may have such a brac?
ing effect as to completely restore her.
Tho last Instnnce of a royal or im?
perial shipwreck was when In the fall
of I?07, the Russian Imperial yacht
Standart, with tho Czar, the Czarina
and their children on board, struck on
a hidden rock In the Gulf of Finland.
Previous to that Archduke Douls Sal
valor, of Austria, was wrrcked on the
coast of Tunis, his yacht being a com?
plete loss, while his brothor, Archduke
John, Is popularly supposed to have
been shipwrecked somewhere in the
neighborhood of Cape Horn, since noth?
ing has ever been heard of him, of his
companions or of hlo ship, the Msir
glierlta. since sho sailed from Ia
Plata for Vnlparniso, some twenty
years ago. Tho late King Kdward's
sailor brother, Alfred, Duke of Edln-j
hurgh, who died as sovereign of the,
German Duchies of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha, suffered shipwreck on board I
his flagship Sultan, which struck on a'
rock and foundered some sixty miles
away from Malta, his equerry In nt
lendance at the time being Lord Jlnyo'a
brother, the late Commodore, tho Hon.
Maurice Bourkc, who was so cele?
brated as r. Jonah throughout the
English navy for the number of mnii
tlme disasters in which he figured,
that he found It difficult lo get any?
body to sail witli him.
Queen Victoria on one occasion had
a narrow escape from being wrecked.
Sho was traversing the Solent from Os?
lo, rne to Gosport, cm her steam yacht
the Alberta, which w.as proceeding at;
a high rate of speed, when the yacht
Mistletoe got in tho way and wns run
down, threo lives being lost. Tho Al?
berta, marvelous to relate, sustained]
relatively little injury, but the Queen's1
oscape was a narrow one, and ever af?
terwards she Insisted that the yachts
pn which she, was truvcling should
proceed at a much lower rate of speed)
than previously.
Duke Frederick William, of Mcck-i
lenbnrg-Schwerlii, brother of the Re?
gent of Brunswick and ol tho prince
consort of the Netherlands, was
drowned when the Gorman torpedo]
destroyer, which he commanded, found?
ered in a gale In tho Baltic, going
down with all hands on board. He
man Kalserln's youngest ? sister, Prln-I
cess Feodora, of Schleswig-Holstein,
who refused all subsequent offers of
marriage, distinguished herself as a
novelist of exceptional merit and died
about a year ago. King James IL. of
England, was shipwrecked off the
coast ol Norfolk, riot far from Yar?
mouth, and was rescued with extreme
difficulty, a number of his nobles In
attendance upon hltn being drowned.
Ills flrat cousin. Prince Maurice of Bo?
hemia, who after the execution of his
uncle. King Charles I. of England, to
whom be was devoted, led the roving
lifo of a buccaneer, which has furnish?
ed tlie thomo for many a novel, perish,
ed In a shipwreck. And then there is.
of course, King Richard Coeur-de-Lion.
who was wrecked on the coast of Dal
(nutla, on his way homo from the Holy
was atllanced at tho time
Land, and who was held In captivity
in Austria for ninny yearn, until found!
and rescued by his favorlto minstrel
?londol; while King Henry I.'a only
son. l'rlncn William, was drowned,
with a nunibor of his nobles, wlillo on
I his way from Normandy to England,
I in 1113.
Tho lion. CharlCB Gideon Murray,
Governor of tho Island of 3t. Vincent,
in tho West Indies, who with Mrs.
Murray. 1? spending some tlmo In New
York, en route to his satrapy, hns
been twelve years In the colonial ser?
vice of his country, and also took
part in tho Boer War. He is a young?
er son of Ix>rd Ellbank. and brother
of that Master of Kltbank who ts the
senior government whip, and the. so
called Patronage Secretary of the
Treasury. As the Inttor ho has the
chief voice In tho distribution of the
patronage of tho administration, and
virtually makes all tho nominations
of the rewards, titular and otherwise,
for party sorvtces. Ills most Inti?
mate friend and political ally la the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lloyd -
George, and they are almost always
seen together.
The Governor of St. Vincent takes
his Christinn nnme of Gideon from
the first owner of tho now ruined Ell
bank Castle, Sir Gideon Murray, Lord
of tho Session, of Scotland. lie enp
t tired in a border raid young Scott, of
Harden. In tho act of stealing his cat?
tle, and gave him the choice of being
hanged on tho gallows, which formed
an Indispensable feature of the. prin?
cipal tower of the castle, as of most
other Scotch strongholds of the day.
or of marrying his daughter, whose
phenomenal ugliness Is ttlll commem?
orated in many a Scottish legend nnd
poem, and haB come down through his?
tory to us as "Muckle-Moulhcd Meg."
It is said that the raider, after behold?
ing the lady, hesitated so long ns to
whether It was not pre.fnrn.blo to bo
hanged than to become her hushond.
ihm it was not until tho rope Was ac?
tually placed ttbo?t hin nick that he.
with manifest reluctance, accepted In
lloti thereof tho matrimonial nootc
Strange to relate, the marriage turn- 1
out a very happy one. owing to th<
fact that Meg, who Wan a sister of the
first Lord Ellbank, was a rcmarkah
clever woman, and It Is from till:
union that the Scotts of Pollwarth, and
Incidentally tho novelist Sir Walter
Scott, are descended.
General Sir Stanley Clarke, -.v!
at his crown residence, known .,
Rangers- lxidge, in Hyde Park, situated
In the neighborhood of the Serpentine
one of tho most charming of ruri I
residences In the centre of the mcti"
polls, was, of mi the members of King
Edward's household, probably the best
known on this side of tho Atlantic. !i
was a frequent visitor to this count:; ,
his daughter having spent nt least two
seasons In Now York, under the chap
eronagfi of the Inte Mrs. I'nraii Stevci
Ho was married to a daughter of tin
late Sir John Hoso, her mother having
been a fnmous American beauty, n
rlnughter of Itohert Emmet Temple, of
Rutland, vt
Tho late Sir John Hose, and after
Wards his son. Sir Churl':! P. Rose,
were for many years the English
partners of Lcvl P. Morton, In the
Anglo-American firm known as Mor?
ion. Rose & Co. Stanley Cluiko join?
ed King Edward's household In IS7f.
and remained connected therewith un?
til his death, having served for a time
also ns private secretary to Queen
Alexandra. He was an old cavalry
man, having served in the Thirteenth
Light Priigoons, and the Fourth Hus?
sars, and also having taken part In
Ihe various Egyptian campaigns Ho
leaves one son, Cnptnln Stanley Clarke,
of tho Scots Guards, who is married
to the eldest daughter of Sir Alexand?
er nolrd, of Urle, in Scotland.
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