The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-02-04
DIXIE IS RtGNANT
IN WASHINGTON
Where Northerners lmbibe
Southern Ideas.
SOUTHERN CHARITY BALL
The Social Triumph of the Washing
ton Season.
SENATOR CLARK The AMERICAN ALADDIN
Southern Girl Refuses TO Mary Multi. Million
aire Because of Devotion 10 Her Father.
Senator Vests Falling Health.
The Force Bill.
Especial Correspondence,

] W eek Was oit VI thC MUS tti
social vents CT the season. Washington
| society is more Southern than Northern.
We heard a DISTINGUISHED Southern
Senator make the remark that North
| ern IDEAS and ways instead of South
! ON Congressman becoming Yankeeized
by a soourn at the Nations capitol.
| This IS largely Before the war,
Southarners ruled the social world here.
and they do still. The Southern woman
cant be approached by her Northern
| sister in those qualities which go into
, the makeup of social success. Other
| entertainments and functions here have
been much more elaborate and costly
| than our Southern ball, but they lacked
| the charm of Dixie. and the latter is
| spoken OF by Northerners as Well as
| Southerners as the social success of the
! season.
A unique figurein public life is Sena-
tor VIM. A. Clark. of Montana. He
was born on q farm in Pennsylvania.
worked as a farm hand in Iowa, went to
Montana in 1868. Where he began his
career as a miner With pick and shovel
having toted all his earthly possessions
on his back. He struck it rich. ana now
he is the copper king Of the world.
counting his wealth by the hundreds o.
millions. Some estimate his wealth at
$500, 0CG, 900, bat this is problematic. He
is said to have i larger income now than
any other man on earth. Senator Clark
has had q. stormy political career. He
was elected to the Senate in 1890, but 4
Republican contestant was seated. He
was again elected Senator III 1889, but it
was charged that he secured his cleo
ton by bribery, and he resigned to
escape being turned cut. He was finally
elected in 1901 and is now serving his
| term in peace. Senator Clark had q
great rival in the affections of the Demo
Gratis of his State in the person of
Marcus DAILY, at one time his business
partner, and then his bitter enemy until
his death. 1t is said the fight between
these millionaire enemies for control in
The State convention OF Montana in 1900
was one Of the fiercest ever waged in
sets OF candidates and contesting dele
| cations TO Kansas City. When the
Democratic National Convention seated
the Clark delegation, the Succ1S of his
rival broke Days heart and he died,
which was probably fortunate for the
Democratic party, as Bryan carried
Montana and two Democrats were elect
ed to the Senate, and this nigh not
have occurred had DAILY lived and kept
up his fight. Senator Clark is not only
a emb Of the Senate himself, but he
| dictated the election of his colleague,
SeatOr Gibson. They sit side by SIDE
in the Senate, and it is safe to predict
that the two Montana votes will be cast
together on all roll calls.
Notwithstanding his great wealth,
Senator Clark is a plain man of the peo-
p~le-modest, unassuming, approachable.
ate 10 his habits. He would make a
great Democratic candidate for Vice
President in 1904.
A tale Of devotion to a father and of
fidelity to a promise to a dying mother
is told of the beautiful and accomplished
daughter of a Southern Senator, who re-
fused to marry a multi-millionaire col
league of her father, because she prom
iSed her mother on her deathbed never
to leave her father while he lived. This
is SAID to be a true story Of the devoted
daughter of enc of the leaders on the
Democratic side OF the Senate.
y pathetic sight is to see Senator Vest,
OF Missouri, almost carried to his seat
every morning by his son and secretary.
His small form is emaciated and feeble,
but this veteran OF many a hard-fought
battle between the parties in the Senate
has all his mental faculties unimpaired.
He is still the same strong-minded,
quick-witted Vest that he was in the
eighties and the early nineties, when he
was such a power against the Cleveland
Influence in the Democratic party. Sena-
tor Vest would resign but for what he
cOnceives to be his duty to his friends
he does not want to p%recipitate a contest
for the succession until the expiration of
his term, when it is we'll known that he
will retire. Any other man in his condi-
tiCn would absent himself from the SEN
ate, but Vests sense of duty to the peo-
pie of Missouri, who have honored and
trusted him 50 long, will not permit him
to draw his salary without earning it.
Like the great Calhoun, he is daily al
most carried TO his seat. He is the last
surviving member of the Confederate
Senate.
A Federal election law, the ghost
which has haunted Southern dreams of
peace and development since the war. is
again proposed in Congress-. and this
time by Southern men Republicans)
Eack in the early seventies. a force
Dill was killed by the parliamentary
knowledge OF Samuel j. Randall. backed
by the secret friendly aid of James c..
Blaine. then Speaker of the House of
Representatives: and, again in 1890, the
efforts OF the Republican majority, des-
peratc to >p~erpetuate itself in power, un-
I DER the leadership of Thopnoc ID pooS