The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-03
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whose memory is now so excellent.
! Another way of guaging the long time
that has elapsed since Clarke was men,
Der of the house, is to call the roll of
great men from all over the country who
at one time and another have been con-
spicuous members of the house and SELL
ate since CIarkes advent forty years
| ago, and see how many are missing, not
only from the halls of rongress, from all
earthly scenes of action. Here are some
of them: James A. Garfield, James Sher-
man. William Mckinley, John ]. ingalls,,
Benjamin Harrison, Roscoe Conklin,
Schuyler Colfax James j. Randall Thorn
as B. Reed Charles f. Crisp, John A.
Logan. Daniel W. Voorhees, Ben Hill,
Justin S. Morrill,, Henry l.. Dawes, Lu-
cius O. C. Lamar. Roger O. Mills, Will
liam NJ. Morrison. William NJ. Springer,
Zachariah Chandler William Window,
Rutherford 3. Hayes Matther Carpenter.
In view Of the above, it truly seems
long time since this Oklahoman first
came to congress. Yet in his time, in
his comings and goings. in his congress
sional days still later when he continued
to make his yearly pilgrimages to the
country's capital city, Mr.. Clarke has
known more or less intimately each of
these able men who have been members
of one or both of the houses Of congress.
II makes his own congressional service
bit ancient in comparison
After serving in congress, Sidney Clarke
went back to Lawrence, his old home.
In 1878 he was elected a member of the
Kansas house of representatives, and
when the session convened in 1879 he
was chosen speaker This was a mem
been elected senator in 1873. was up for
reelection. Albert H. Horton, then and
later for many years, chief-justice of the
state supreme court, was also a candi-
date for senator. The fight between these
two Atchisen men-Ingalls and Horton
was most bitter. but resulted finally in
the reelection Of Ingalls,. After the close
of the legislature, Clarke really retired
to private life, in Kansas
Ten years later, however, In 1889, this
veteran went to Oklahoma, to start anew
as did many another man, in a new
country. He located at Oklahoma City,
where he has since remained. In 1899
Clarke entered the territorial council, cor
responding to the state senate in Kansas,
and remained there two terms, or until
1903 He has a useful and valuable mem
Der Of this higher house Of the Oklahoma
legislature
Mr.. Clarke has always been interested
| in, lob T,,
he has been here on the ground at each
session Of congress to try to do some
thing for his territory. First it was free
homes; then the Kiowa, Comanche and
Apache reservation, which was to be
opened up to settlement; then it was
statehood, etc. But always he has had
some influence here, and has labored
with both political sides OF the house
and senate in behalf Of the object he
was interested in. Being an ex-member
of the house. Mr. Clarke has at all times
had access to the floor Of the house of
representatives, and has availed himself
of thise privilege to the advantage of
himself and the subject for which he was
laboring.
In the forty years that Sidney Clarke
has been coming to Washington, he has
| always stopped at the same hotel On
the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and
Seventh street, midway between capitol
and treasury, there still stands the an
finest hting Washington had in the way
of a tavern 1t Is an antiouated build
ing; and it not now the finest hotel in
the city, superseded as it has become, by
the New Willard. the Raleigh, the Ar
lington. palatial guest houses that they
are. But the old National is still as
popular with extreme southerners and
wwesterners as ever, and Sidney Clarke
alwaysp uts UP there. r. H FAXON.