The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-17

I They say in Montana that he will
! not continue in politics. They also say
/ That he runs politics as he does his
| misunderstanding attention to every de-
| tan and leaving nothing to the judg-
| ment or work of his assistants He
wants results in voting precincts to be
| figured on as close a margin as the
output of a copper mine or factory,
and he cannot understand why that
| cannot be done.
No man with a business scheme to
| present could go to Senator Clark S
house at night and talk to him about
1t in his library; and the most infiu-
| entail political manager in Montana
would find it equally as impossible to
get at him in the same way on a mat
ter of politics. They don't understand
that in Montana The district leader
would expect a confidential chat, an
invitation to the sideboard, and the
butler handing around the perfectos.
Clark of Montana would want him to
put the matter in writing and let it
come through the mail.
After the reception of callers in the
Marble Room the Senator returns to
his offices in the annex, where, by this
time, the mail has been typewriter
and is on his desk. He reads every
letter and signs it himself. Nearly all
senators depute to their secretaries
the duty of signing unimportant mail,
either with a stamp or in their own
hand. but Senator Clark has never
ben able to accustom himself to that
practice. He labOriously goes through
the whole batch of letters, affixing his
signature as carefully as if he were
signing a check.
Perhaps, in the meantime, he has
been to the long distance telephone
half dozen times to talk with some
captain of industry or finance in New
York, or Philadelphia, or Pittsburg.
He has received dozens of kilograms,
some of which he has answered in the
Senate, and others brought over to the
office to be answered. After the last
bit of spondence for the day is
dispatched, he enters his automobile
and takes spin into the country if
there is daylight, or home to don his
evening clothes and so to dinner and
the functions to follow He is fond of
dining out, and is an acceptable guest
at a dinner party, have a fund of an
ecdote and incident of his Western
life.
No one knows the full extent of the
business operations of Clark, of Mon
tana. There is his copper mine in Arr
IONA, said to be the greatest mine in
the world. He knows the possibilities
of that mine, and probably could esti-
mate its output from veins of copper
yet unexplOred. He owns smelters in
Arizona and gold mines and copper
smelters i'm Butte, Mont.
He is building a railroad from Salt
Lake City, Utah, to Los Angeles, Cal
When he started there was some ques-
ton about financing the scheme; that
is. there was question in the minds of
other men. He settled 1t by drawing
his personal check every month for
$500, 900 to carry on the work. Then
some people concluded that they would
like TO have some bonds, and he fioated
the immense project without difficulty.
He owns electric lighting and street
railway plants without number, and
almost the entire telephone system of
the Rocky Mountain region. In Cali
fornia he has the largest beet sugar
factory in the world. He has coffee
plantations in Mexico and interests in
every quarter of the Pacific coast,
north of the Athmus.
When Congress is in session, 1t is