The age-herald., 1900-01-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

"Friday January 18th, was the anni- versary of the birthday of Robert E. Lee, and probably not even one southerner in a thousand remembered the fact" said former officer last night who served under the illustrious Virginian in the war between the states. "'And are we so soon forgot?' II would seem so. Yet it is not so. Lee has been dead nearly thirty years-he died in November, 1s7O-but ohe has got but to mention his name ito southerners to arouse expressions of profound reverence. Other leaders of the old-time south may go out of fashion, as the vulgar phrase runs; but Lee survives, and shall survive as long as the south is not the north. About him or regarding him there is no difference of opinion. Father Ryan wrote of the peer less sword of Lee and one pardons the poetic license made use of by accepting the fact attempted to be conveyed by the Priest-Poet There were many things that were needful for the south to forget; but the American people cannot cease to re- member the Second Virginian."
 
 Congressman Bertram Clayton of New York, younger brother of Congressman Henry D. Clayton, of Alabama. and son of the late Major-General Henry D. Clay ton, sometime president of the State Uni- versity at Tuscaloosa, seems to have "won opt" The New York Clayton, unlike the Alabama member of that distinguished family, is for what is called in political parlance sound money that is to say, for the "gold standard" The Alabama Clayton is diametrcally op- posed to his New York brother. Congress- man Jacob Ruppent, of New York, de- feated Congressman Amos J. Cummings for the membership of the democratic na- tional congressional committee, ten of the eighteen democratic members of congress from New York voting for MT. Rupert Amongst the ten was MT. Bertram Clay ton. It is alleged, and very reasona bly so that considerable political significance at taches to this diviison in the New York delegation, as, with the exception of MT Driggs, all the extreme gold men of the delegation are on the side of MT Ruppert
 while MT. Cummings and his support CTS have maintained their party regularity at all times.
 Bertram Clayton was born in Barbour county, the nome county of hds race. He was educated at West Point, but after serv- ing several years in the army he resigned in order to resume civil life. He married in Brooklyn, and has since made his home there. He is the colonel of a New York regiment of the National Guard and was in the charge up San Juan hill at San- afago. Unlike his distinguished brother of Alabama, he is ''bearded like pard." It is a matter of something more than passing interest that the younger son of one of the few major-generals of the confederacy rep resents a New York district in congress. whilst the eldest born of that house repre- sents an Alabama constituency. Congress- man Henry Clayton, of Alabama, a free coinage man, by the way, was welded in early life to daughter of the late Major- General w. w. Allen. who was esteemed in her day the most beautiful woman in America The younger brother. the Con- gressman Bea'tram Clayton of New York. marr.ed in the east. and his wife, said to be a beautiful woman, is not known to Ala bamians except by praiseworthy repute. The Congressmen Clayton are, by way of fact, the first cousins of John C. Pugh of Birmingham, Mrs. H. D. Clayton the mother of the two distinguished young members of the lower house of the national legislature being a sister of Mrs. James l.. Pugh.
 The impression prevails throughout the state that the assassination of the late Judge Mcclure of Lauderdale, was due in part to the killing of the editor of the Florence Times, Mcfarland. something more than year ago. Private infonmataos.