The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-26
HIS SOCIAL AMBITION
Clark Is After a Seat in New
York's Thirty Eight"
A CHAPTER IN POLITICS
The New York Telegraph's Story OF the
Mimonairs's Latest Aspiration
and How His Senatorial
Hopes Were Crushed.

Some one who Is more or less familiar
with the political history of Montana
has been furnishing the New York Tele-
graph with n few facts upon which a
somewhat interesting story was written
with great e lines. reading T Buy
a Seat in the New '3S'-w. A. Clark,
Montana Millionaire. Is Said to Have
Aspirations-Fails TO Reach the Sem
ate-Caused Him Much Political Disas-
ter I'm His own State"
The article star;s out in this way:
Here is a man who is coming to New
York to purchase by cold coin. c. O. D.,
a seat in the guarded n exclusive
chamber of New York society.
Can he do IL?
This person Il multi-millionaired. He
has more gold eagles than there are
cobble stones ON Manhattan island. IL
placed in a column the line would eX-
tend from New York to the Missouri
river. This modern Croesus Is w. A.
Clark Of Montana, who. having sew
eral times tailed to obtain a seat in the
United States senate. has declared him
self a bidder for a bench in the charmed
circle of the 400 or. as Mrs. John King
Van Rensselaer, woul say. in the orig
inal 49,
'AlI the westerners In New York are
discussing Mr.. Clark's new ambition
an ambition that he has been nursing
ever since he was forced to leave his
home in Montana. IL Is heard about
the HOFFMAN and Fifth Avenue. in po-
litical circles and about the clubs. But
the rumor of the m~illionaire's intended
purchase has not yet reached the proud,
naughty and gilded few"
OF course the New York paper is mis-
taken about Mr.. Clark having been
forced to leave Montana. IL he has es-
tablished his permanent residence In
New York. as the Telegraph implies. he
did II voluntarily and in preference to
living in the fumes of his smelter in
Butte.
"A man from Montana is thus
quoted by the Telegraph:
CLARK has been very unfortunate I'm
his political and social ambitions. as IL
shown by the fact that he has always
been turned down by the democracy of
his state. Why, on a popular vote ne
could not be elected postmaster OF
Butte. despite the fact that he has a
fortun of $40. 900. 600 and upward"
Another man whom the New York
paper says came from Montana, Clipped
into the Interview with the old story OF
Mr.. Clark's political ambitions n his
repeated failures. The man from Mon
lana is thus quoted i'm part:
When Clark ran for congress-. In
1889. he was defeated. Then he became a
candidate for The United States nate
There was a coti est and Sanders and
Powers (republicans) were seated. in
stead of Maginnis and Clark, the demo-
Gratis. That was the nearest that Clark
ever came to getting into the upper
house of congress. IL Is probably the
nearest he will ever come. He has been
a stock candidate ever since, but his
turning down at this last election has
rather crushed him. The curtain has
been rung down upon his political ca
reer.
When Van Wyck was running for
mayor OF New York the election became
a local issue in Butte. lark paper,
the Miner. opposed the democratic can
didate because New York had not de-
Clared for free silver in its platform.
The Anaconda Standard disputed his
position and supported Tammany all the
way through.
I'm the last election Clark had alb
solutely no control. As a result. he sup
ported n mongrel ticket consisting of
gold republicans. though he had a short
time previously denounced the New
York county convention for not sup
porting silver outright
"Mr. Clark is the man who purchased
the Selection OF a Model for $42, 900 at
the sale of paintings In the Stewart col
lection a year ago. He imagined that
he was bidding against George Gould
and for months afterward Rugged the
deluslon that he had outclassed the
New Yorker. Gould did not bid on the
picture"