The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-04
SOME OF THE CELEBRITIES
SEEN AT SHORT RANGE.
Lewis Nixon, Cookers Man for Second
Place, Is Modest, Serious and
Young Looking.
Elliot Danorths Winning Personality and Frank Ambition
Millionaire Clark Roughs it-David B. Hills
Fdtness-keIIars Boom.

Midland corridor this morning that he had
never heard of the New Yorker until last
week
Mr.. Danforth was bern in a county that
has never given Republican majority. Hts
father and grandfather before him were
Democrats.
His Frank Ambition.
This fact and my own record give me
good right to say that | am Il Democrat.
said Mr.. Danforth this morning. This New
Yorker has not been booming his vice pres
idency candidacy very hard. Like Shively
he has been in a receptive mood
What ] really want" ne said this morn
ing. with Amazing fraEkEess. lis to be
Governor Of New York. That is my po-
htical ambition. Down In New York Ia the
party the fact is broadly suspected. and
don't mind making this public statement
on tie subject. In the matter - the vice
presidency. there has been a TSTld of kind
ness shown TO me-so much C II, indeed.
That 1 have had no occasion 20 deny any
thing or to set out on n defense of my rec
ord Whatever New York does VIII suit
ME from the ground UP. although, let me
repeai. what ] want is to be my party
Candidate for Governor Of New York"
Hills Surprising Fatness.
Coming down from Lincoln yesterday aft
~ .-"oH nan otitto. 'ieA me- tA'c ii,Ai
man from Montana, were objects of great
Interest. not only on the train. but at
stopping places at which the two statesmen
got out for hit OF exercise.
Mr. HIS fatness was the subject of much
comment The West had been holding the
notion that Hill belonged TO the thin. He Is
as COLBY as a prize pig and about as grace
full. His neck is thick to the point of mass
iveness. IL is sort Of neck that hangs
over the collar at the back. IL IL were not
for his fatncss Mr.. Hill would have excel
lent features. His nose is straight and clear
cut; his mouth and eyes are good; his nous
tache Is small and well kept, but the sea
OF fat swamps what might speak for pull
chritude.
Yesterday Mr.. Hill was a tired statesman.
He had reached Kansas City Sunday. after
the long ride from New York only to start
at cnce on the journey TO Lincoln. At the
home Of Bryan h. was up until past mid
night. At O'Clock In the morning he was
called to catch the Kansas City train again.
a train without sleepecs. When he got back
here he wanted to so 20 bed for a ten-huur
nap. but the Rupert OF New York. Dan
forth. and 20 others. wanted to have chats
with him.
Clark Roughs IL.
The case of Clark is suggestive Of deem
thought. Here was the man from Monta M.
the dusty victim of a long hard ride In a
of hard cane-woven seats. without a gl.m-
mer OF plush to soften the prospect He IS
'woolly with Riches" as an epgrammatic
statesman said. He has summer homes and
winter homes. and money 20 get others. He
has SO much wealth that there Is no danger
that he Will ever need a political, job to
drive away the persistent wolf. He has
grown children. among them daughter
who is now horeymooning in Europe with
recently acquired husband. Yet Mr.. Clark
prefers to pursue politics.
Tired as he when he got to town YES
terday. he continued his work When the
train stopped at So. Joseph he was the first
to the platform. He spent most of the time
seeing delegates and others who might be
useful to him.
Mr. Clark is serious man. He Is unirn-
portant u the gaze. He is little in physique
TO the point of insignifcance His ears are
large and much configurated His eyes are
blue. direct and sparkling: his hair is red
and bushy; his whiskers are the same color
srd fanlike in their arrangement
Mr.. Clark wears simple and inexpensive
clothing. High up on the mass Of red
bushy hair sits a simple straw hat the cos,
OF which may be dollar and a half. No
diamonds.
Mr.. Clarke shakes hands like a man win,
doesn't know how. lie ought to study the
methods of Danforth. and he might i'm
ly and is a pleasant man to meet Every
minute OF the day there is some one at his
elbow who wants 10 See him. Mr. Clark
may know how TO smile, but he has given
sign of II here
Getting back again TO the beginning
every one who sees the man toiliny herr,
AT thankless. joyless politics asks the man
next to him what he would do If he were
In ClaIks shoes. II wouldn't be here is
the inVaridbie answer. in one form or an
other.
Croker the Man of Action.
When Virgil Conking OF Missouri called on
Mr.. Croker at the Midland Hotel Yesterday
afternoon. the man from New York gave
utterance to q sentence. a short one of four
words that seemed TO illustrate his charac-
ter as man of action. Mr.. Conkling and
other Missourians had shaken Mr. CroKer's
hand. and after that ceremony a silence fol-
lowed
For moment there was much awkward
ness. Then AIR. Croker said What's to
be done
That is Croker in a nutshell, biogrnphed
by himself. He is a man of action. He
asked the question mechanically, but il
summed up his character.
What's to be done? is what Mr. Cro-
ke- is always asking one way or another.
Their he and his friends set about and do II
from Michigan. Is pleased with the hills OF
Kansas City. lie has frequently been ,lriy-
ing with the ladies Of his party, and on one
occasion lie took Il Troost avenue car and
rode the length of the lire for the purpose
of getting the sensation of dropping from
Eighteenth street to Twenty down
Summit street-one of the most picturesoue
rides of the kind in the country. Mr. Cam
pau is living at the Baltimore Hotel where
he entertains many guests.
one of the unpolitical celebrities who at
tracted a great deal OF attention about the
hotels this afternoon was Finley Peter
Dunno Of Chicago and Los Angeles who
stands proudly or the record o. having
written the Mr. Dooley books which have
been selling the country over for many
months and which have been printed in part
in The Sunday Republic Mr.. Dunno is a
young man of careful daily shaving. He
wears trousers that are much turned I'D at
the bottom. He uses the broad "a" most
skilfully in his talk, and shows not the
slightest sign OF having become inflated
because of his success as a writer for the
public entertainment
Dunae's friends all call him Pete. This
was in way horr!fyins to the Dooley
who stood about the youthful
celebrity this afternoon and waited for him
to express some of the famous Archey
Road philosophy. Mr.. Dunno says that he
writes only as the spirit moves him. He
contends that II Is mistake To think that
good stuff can be turned out at any time.
night or day. by order
KeiIar Tammnny's Candidate.
John W. KeIlar, Tammany's Charities
Commissioner. had his dinner interrupted
times at the Midland Hotel last
evening Scores of democrats broke past
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