The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-08
GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON.


 of Nevada. Senator Platt was believed to have been engaged to Miss Wood. | and It was reported that the young wo- | man intended to sue him for breach of promise. but the Senator was too wise q politician to be thwarted by little | thins like that. He stole a wedding march upon the plotters and married day sooner than the date understood to have been set; and when the nothing-if. lnot-impertinent New York reporter sought him to ask him how about 1t. he posi- | lively declined to speak either of .his present hymenial contract or his former amorous complications.
 It Is little bit singular that Senator Stewart who had charge of the bill | which cursed the South with that ilegiti- | mate child of the constitution. the Fff- his only wives from the South alone. His second choice Is said to be evidence of | his contritiop a repentance which he has several times expressed in other ways. He Is a handsome and weil-prescrvcd old | man. despite his sevcnty-four years: nut he Is said to he quite shy of social ex- ploitation in any form. Senator Clark. | the Montana much millionaire. has been a widower for several years. He looks enticingiy eligible, carrying his sixty-four years with the. agility of the sunny side of ] forty. His thick auburn locks are not yet | frosted with the silver livery of age'' and he moves about with the spryness of ore who could tread lively measure. Sena- tor Beveridge. although me Of the youngest Senators; Is 2 widower of some obdurate. He has a habit of dIdactic speaking and posing which would indi- cate that he Is not wholly insusceptibe to the blandishments of feminity practic- S habitaalIy i % sttired as pSe' though dressed to captivate, his Prince Albert being of the longest and the crease of his trousers be- ing of the most impressivelv correct mode. zlA ,l..0 shoulders and hts brown hair is sleeked and combed as though 1t would never cease to be stuck upon his intellectual temples.
 Other widowers of the Senate are Dietrich and Miller of Nebraska: Dilling- ham of Vermont Frye of Maine; Mitchell of Oregon; Patterson of Colorado; War ren of Wyoming and Cockrell of Missouri.
 In view of what has happened to Platt and Stewart there Is no telling where the lightning of Cupid will strike next among these exposed young men of the Senate.
 But of them all Senator Cockrell looks best like genuine stand-patter. He has always had large family circle about him and apart from his home-ties, as they are to him. he seems to be we'd ded so tight and fast to the affairs of mands that he will never have time to go to the altar with any woman. Indeed Senator Cockrell looks less like lady killer than any man in the Senate. He
 
 put on to escape from burning building and his white whiskers are as variable of direction as the wind that listeth aim lessly about them. His hair which Is long, as far as concerns relations with the toilet chamber, testifies with the rest of his makeup to Tighten the syrens that he has done those things he ought not to have done and left undone those things which he ought to have done.
 The bachelors of the Senate are few and inconsequential, as far as regards matrimonial enterprise. that anybody knows of. Among them are Kean. of and Kittredge of South Dakota.
 The last great bachelor of the Senate and still a bachelor. as Is bachelor, was David Bennett Hill of New York, who a woman-hater while he was in the Sem ate In a way that has been a terrible warning to the hard sex In Congress. Talking to newspaper friend one day the New York bachelor Senator said he didn't see how men in Congress could attend to business which brought them here and frequent the numerous soaal functions of Washington life, tiiilng tfSm- & truck incompatible with brain-achieve- ment What Senator Hill said was wise and timely, hut 1t was looked upon other wise and quite out or season when the newspapers. He was secuted, scorned and nigh snat tened balder than ever from the maiden-infested frigidities of Ply mouth Rock to the wild and womanless shores of lower California. But for that unfortunate episode David Bennett Hill might have taken a bride while he was in Washington. He was not nnathematiz- ing woman: he was inveighing against silly intemperance as a growing nuisance to the public service. The critics who bastinadoed the poor lonely bachelor did not stop to reflect that
 "The blood of youth burns not with such
 excess
 As gravity's revolt to wantonness.
 Henceforth Senator Hill was marked and remarked man. The sympathy of the men dwindled and the women looked upon him as an affront to chlvnlry.
 Josh Billings said: It Is mnre diff flcult of all things of that kind Is to be a bridegroom when reported to be a wo- man-hater. R. H. Watkins.