Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1911 — As to the Duke’s Relatives. [ARTICLE]

As to the Duke’s Relatives.

Congressman Macon, in an afterdinner speech in Helena, was eloquently coiyjemning that type of international marriage wherein a young and beautiful girl and a fortune of six or seven millions are handed over to a dissipated and elderly foreigner with at title. "Lots of these foreign titles would become extinct," Representative Macon said, “their holders would die of starvation were it not for our American dollars. I was once talking to aa English diplomat. " The duke,’ he said to me, ‘belongs to one of the most influential families of our time.’ “‘lndeed!’ said I. , Who is his fa-thaMn-law? A New Yorker or a Chicagoaa?’” aB