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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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to letters addressed to his wife, asking permission to use her name in the formation of ladies Democratic influence clubs. He wrote as follows: Mrs. Cleveland has referred to me your letter informing her of the organization of the Frances Cleveland Influence Club. It is by no means pleasant to dissent from the methods which sincere friends adopt when their efforts not only demonstrate their friendliness, but when they also seek to subserve the public good and are, therefore, engaged in a patriotic service. It is, however, impossible for us to approve of the use of Mrs. Clevelands name in the designation of the clubs designed to do political work. We trust you will not undervalue our objection, because it rests upon the sentiment that the name now sacred in the home circle as wife and mother may well be spared in the organization and operaticm of clubs created to exert political influence. Perhaps no wife in the history of our American politics ever gave closer attention to all that con-
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MRS. HENRY M. STANLEY. cerned the political fortunes and career of her husband than Mrs. John A. Logan, and her knowledge of politics, both theoretical and practical, made her the most indispensable adviser and assistant the lamented Illinois Senator ever possessed in all his long years before the public. But it would be hard to imagine Mrs. Logan as fighting her gallant husbands battles in rancorous disputations on the hustings, after the fashion of the English ladies who have ambition for their husbands. Her influence was exerted in a wholly different way. The esteem in which Mrs. Logan is held, it should be remarked in passing, is shown in the full newspaper accounts of remarkable fetes and receptions given in her honor at THE PROGRESS OF THE iVORUX 10 Minneapolis a month aj?o. Sho is. perhaps, tlic best representative who could possibly be named of an American woman in politics in a strictly American manner. The marriage of Count Herbert Bismarck and that in Vienna has been the signal f

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