The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-10-01

| ly as vain man as Bailey, was hap
pier. His party in New York drove
the lordly Roscoe out of politics ant
he took to the bar as did Bailey
But his divorce from politics was Q
vinculo matrimonii. He had beer
The most powerful of the Senator'S
He extorted from Lamar, the man
who hated him, the extravagant es-
innate that he was the most power
full mind Lamar had ever known.
Conkling's control of the Senate was
not as absolute as Aldrich's, but he
pounded it like cannon ball and
did not glide thru it like pestilence.
He has no ally on the Democratic
side; Aldrich had dozen as com
pletely under his control as was
Gallinger or Fairbanks or Allison or
Frye.
Conkling, who had been separated
from the law as long as Bailey, re-
turned to it and marched right up
to the head in rivalry with Choate,
Root, Evarts and dozen others.
each of whom might have contested
for the distinction of head of the
American bar. He had lordly and
a lofty contempt for money, and
that was the one advantage he had
over Blaine, who in his heart be-
lieved that the only way to be great
was to be rich. While a Senator,
living on his salary, Conkling never
allowed campaign committee to
pay his expenses when he went on a
speaking tour in political cam
paign, and when he left the Senate
after more than twenty years of po-
litical life he was as poor in this
worlds goods as Edward w. Car
mack or Daniel w. VOORHEES,. Bet
ter to be poor like Aristides than
rich like Callias."
He was arrogant, he was naughty,
he was imperious, and had winning
ways to make men detest him. Ed
munds and ingalls, feared him.
Blaine hated him. Even Sumner
was treated with indignity by him.
He had but two personal friends in
the Senate, Hannibal Hamlin and
w. Eaton, the latter
Democrat; but when he rose to adj
dress the Senate every seat was soon
filed and every ear lent attention.
Had Conkling been a corrupt man
Ill the hatred that was visited upon
him would have been degraded to
His fall politically pre-
saged the defeat of his party.
Bailey's fall had for sequence the
triumph of his party.
And what danger the Democratic
party and the country escaped when
Champ Clark's ambition to be Presi
dent went the way of Blaine's and
A lovable man, an able
man, an honest man, Clark is the
most impressionable public man 1
ever saw or ever heard of. He had
admiration for the in
tellectual qualities of Bailey and
actually took that gentleman at the
lavish estimate his friends fixed on
him. At the same time Mr.. Clark
for all practical purposes mortgaged
himself to the unspeakable Hearst
in that telegraphic dispatch that
spelled gratitude all the way from
Portland, Me-, to Portland, Ore.
Now, Champ Clark is grateful
man., and Hearst is the very fellow
to have "bled that gratitude white"
Here is this lovable and impress
sionable man, Champ Clark, who as
President would have been consid-
cred fair game by these two, and
they would have pulled him till he
broke and plucked him naked-un
less Champs eyes had been opened
as to both. l think they would have
been opened, after it was too late.
What a deplorable fate Champ
Clark escaped when he was defeated
at Baltimore by the good sense of
the Democratic party and the good
genius of the American republic!-
By Savoyard, thru the courtesy of
the Nashville Banner.
Washington, September .23.