East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-13

are rich men in the senate, plenty VI
them; but those senators who are
senators because they are rich, and
for no other reason, are pathetic fig
ures IN the greatest deliberative body
in the world. Notwithstanding the
various gentlemen who are decrying
the senate, there never was and never
will be a success there not backed
with brains.
Is a Good Business Man.
Nor must it be thought that Clark
has no brains. Far from it. He has
as fine a commercial mind as ever
discovered how to make two or a
dozen dollars grow where one grew
before. Still, the commercial mind
and the legislative or legal mind have
different convolutons and get at
things in different ways. Clark knows
all about how to develop a copper
mine. but when 1t comes to a bit of
constructive craftsmanship a dozen
men in the senate who are worrying
along on their S96.15 a week make
him look like an abandoned claim.
Clark Has Few Friends.
1t would seem that q man who is
worth a few hundred millions might
| afford a few friends. Clark, appar-
| entity, has none. He rs as solitary as
/ Pixies Peak. He is as lonesome as
| Robinson Crusoe. To be sure. he is
surrounded by a lot of secretaries
I but they are secretaries and get nc
further Beyond that, there is moth
ing. Everybody says "Howdy-do?'
to him, but nobody says, "Clark. old
man, I'm glad to see you"
He tries to be congenial at that
Occasionally he gives a dinner and IN
vites as many as will come. They &c
and look him over and eat his food
and drink his wine and come away
Nobody paws fine slightest attention to
him in the senate. He works hard
too, attending committee meetings
and keeping up with his corresponds
cnce. Once in a session he makes a
! speech, usually on some mining OF
Sand topic. He reads from manuscript
| with amazing crescendo and diminu-
pndo effects, and his own papers in
( Putto and salt Lake tell of the great
4. forensic effort of the DISTINGUISHED
Statesman, and not another paper in
/ go vide, wide world CARRIES line
5 or It.
TI'its, TO BE Il Good senator.
Clark wanted to be a good senator
H. ha1 ambitions to serve his coun-
Try Gn1 he tried faithfully. He could
. not 10 t. In the first place he was
not Gu, out 70" aonatorial success. and
IN The .o'cond place he carna in with
the aludicap of mere money. The
senate has respect for m0ney-toc
much some people say-but it re.
Quires the right kind of a man to be
I hitchod to the money. Clark is great
in his way, but he is not a senator
and he knows it now.
He has four dissipations; his whis.
ilers, his house in New York. his pic.
lures, and work Two of these are
the direct outcome of his money. By
means of the third he got the money
and he could have the whiskers IL he
didn't have cent. Such is the prod.
iaglity of nature.
He runs to hair, for that on hi.
head is as bushy as that on his chir
and as exquisitey tended. He is 6E
years old, but, so far as hair and
whiskers go, he looks like the grad.
uate in osteopathy just out of schoo
and figuring on place to settle down
He buys pictures because he has
money. He buys good pictures be-
cause he can afford them. They are
a fad with MIN. He talks about art
as II he invented perspective. He Is
wont to mourn because art is being
commercialized, but when there Is
anything choice to be had, he prompt.
ly commentaries art to such an ex.
tent that nobedy else can get withir
hailing distance of what he wants. He
will have n great collection of old ant
present-day masters when he gets hi,
art gallery finished, and he will have
lovely time looking at them all by
himself.
Finest Home I'm America.
His house in New York is his pas.
sion. He started out to have the fin.
est residence on the continent. He
has been building 1t for years and viii
be years more at 1t. The outside OF
1t is covered with bronze jimcracks
and with statues OF various kinds, anG
on one corner there is a tower that
looks like a church steeple that has
run against the demoralizing influ-
ences of the world, the flesh and the
devil.
Clark works all the time. Night
after night he goes into the telegraph
offices in Washington and writes mes
sages for an hour at a time, sitting
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