Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-02-09
Their Club al Washington Is 2
 Lively Organization.
MRS. CLARK CHARTER MEMBER
Struggle Over Amendment Of Their constftution-Mrs. Gcre's Wide Knowledge Gained by Acting
 as Eyes for Blind Hvs5aa5.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

representatives is Mrs Champ Clark wife of the speaker, on whom 1t is possible, as all things political are pcs sfble, that the mantle Of the presi= dency may fall Mrs Clark is much interested in the political doings at the capital. although she Is essentially domestic in her tastes She fa con versant with the great questions Of the day and has devoted herself 10 q considerable extent 10 the seconding of her husbands public career
 Mrs. aClark is one of the charter members of the Congressional Club of Women, and Is prominently identified with the management of the organiza- lion. Membership in this club k lirn- 1ted to the wives, daughters, mothers and sisters of members of congress. and naturally 1t would be supposed that 1t would be in sense political club. So 1t Is political club. but Feminine politics" alone seems to in- terest 1t. There Is no division into party lines as represented by the hus- bands and the fathers and the rest. Democratic women vote for their Re publican sisters who happen to be candidates for club offices, and Repub- hcan sisters do likewise by their Dem Ocratic sisters
 There is occasionally trouble In the Congressional club, but 1t grows out of internal and not external politics. Just now the women of the club are strug- gling with the matter of amending their constitution. The organization, being formed in the District of Colurn- bia, has to look to congress for it's charter. and so It happens that in few days when the constitution fnally Is changed a committee of the mem bers must go before committee of congress to get sanction for a newly worded charter. Husbands, brothers or fathers. as the case may be. will have to pass on the validity of what has been done by women members of their families.
 Mira. Gore Aids Her Husband.
 It Is more than likely that the most and best occupied woman in congress sional circles Is Mrs. Thomas P. Gore. wife of the junior senator from Okla homa. for in addition to discharging her home and social duties. she de- votes many hours of each day read ing to her blind husband so that he may carry on his work in the senate
 Before her marriage in 1900 Mrs Gore was Miss Nina Kay. daughter of Thomas Kay of Texas. She was edu- cated in the public normal schools, but her wide knowledge of people and af- fairs has been 1ained from her years of reading aloud to her husband.
 Senator Gore has been in the senate only since the admission of Oklahoma as a state. but in that time he has made a name for himself as q speaker. He was especially prominent in the filibugter of 1908 just before the close of that session when Senator La Fol. lette of Wisconsin made record. breaking speech of nearly 24 hours on the currency bill.
 The wonderful memory. of Senator Gore enables him 10 remember and even to repeat verbatim whatever his wife reads to him once. He rarely asks for n second reading unless 1t is for the pleasure of hearing q poem or passage from favorte author.
 Has Gained Wide Knowcdec.
 Far from being an object of pity. Mrs. Gore considers herself fortunate in being able to keep In touch with the work of her husband, and she also gets great pleasure from studying the issues before the national lawmakers. She has read all the old publications on the tariff and or political economy generally. and the constitutional his. tory of the United States, and she reads as they appear All the modern works. She can discuss with her hua band these subjects and is of invalu able assistance to him when he pre- pares his speeches.
 Mrs. Gore is greatly interested IT the baby state of the Union. which she and her husband adopted as their owr soon after their marriage In theii home town of Lawton. thriving place of nearly 10000 inhabitants. they art
 
 cial circles. Mrs. Gore never neglecti the man whose eyes she is, and thu daily readings continue at home Jus as they do in the national capital
 It is hardly necessary to speak o the comradeship which exists between Senator and Mrs. Robert M La Fol lette. Mrs. La Toilette ever since he school days has been the counselor and aid of her husband She writes a good deal for publication and sh, is a close student of national ant world affairs. The Washington stor. Is that once on a time when they were in school and, of course. before thei marriage, MT. and Mrs. La Toilette op posed each other in competitive de bate and that the wife was given th' decision by the judges.
 Thins Them Out.
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