The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-10
LOOKING FOR A LEADER
Keen Rivalry Among Members
of the Clark Aggregation.
GlLLIS IS BEING S H
Republicans Having the Biggest Faction
Want 10 Be Next to the Barrel.
Need More stun" Than the
Rest OF the Combination.

Who Will be the leader OF the citi-
zens-labor-Clark for the senate-A. p.
A--gold republican-populist party in
this campaign? So many and so vari-
Gus are the elements which have been
gotten together by the news hat Clark
was going 10 loosen up" that a sharp
rivalry has already appeared for the
leadership. Each faction i'm the party
Is anxious to have the leadership, for
the leade Is likely to be more lavish in
the distribution OF the stun among his
own immediate followers.
The republicans are pressing Malcolm
Luis Tor the position of head chairman.
They claim the right because they are
the biggest faction of them all and have
70 candidates on the ticket. while the
populists only nave 10 and the Clark
people six. Having therefore more
than half of the entire number of can
oldates' IL Is apparent that they will
require more of the stun tina either OF
the other factions. and they think. too.
that they could put the said stun where
IL would do the most good.
Inc clark people are pressing Will
lam McDermott for the LEADERSHIP.
Ihey represent that Mr.. Clark is theirs
by right of seeing him first. and thew
don't propose to lose him. They can't
bear the idea of sharing a good thing
with any other clique or crowd. What
90 they call themselves Clark demo-
Gratis for IL they are not to have the
handling of the money? The Clark
people are frantic whenever the idea is
even suggested OF some other cliaue
getting in first on the doodle. They are
Wiling IN let the others in after they
are satisfied. but not until then. The
other cliques ridicule the idea of Mr..
McDermott or any one OF the Clark
faction handling the money. They
nnlnf 70 uuhnt tka rn.-
plished in the recent democratic pri-
maries as sufficient evidence that they
can't run a campaign.
me populists have seven leading can
didates for the position of chairman.
the other members of the party NOT
having as yet themselves.
Inc seven populist candidates are
Thomas r. Kinds. Thomas McLaugh-
I'm. w: A. Shifelbin, John Byrne. John
hoy, Swede Murphy and w. II. Clark.
ot these various populist candidates,
Tom Kinds seems to be In the lead.
Mr.. Kinds claims that he Is the only
man in the entire combination who
knows a single thing about politics. and
N hey want To come close to winning
they must put him in charge. All the
populists agree that they will never
consent to anybody but a populist
handling the Doodle. They claim that
while the republicans may furnish the
sAhA' W. Nlft \
and while the Clark people furnish all
the money, they are the element which
gives to the combination respectability
and tone. They say that IL the repub-
licans handle the money ID will be used
In building an A. +. A.. hall and the
will never get a smell. They
argue further that there is no sense in |
Clark democrats handling the money. |
Tor In the first place they are all en- |
ployes of Mr.. Clark anyway and would |
nave TO vote as he says. whether they
stuf or not. and I'm the second
place they don't know how to handle
There is a big protest among the re-
p~ublicans and the Clark democrats
against n populist being given the
OF Chairman, and particularly Tom
Kinds. They ave a joint suspicion
Tom Kinds Is in reality n DAILY
man I'm disguise, and that II he handles
Doodle he will use IL for the cleo
lion Of the democratic ticket, except
he appropriates for his own cleo
ion. The other populists are also OBJ
as Doodle handlers. the
Clark men and the republicans claim
ng that they would get nothing what
aver IL the populists get the chairman
ship.
There is some talk Of a personally
.,onducted' campaign on the part OF
w. a. Clark himself. All three cIiques
,btect To this plan most
They are willing. as a compromise. TO
ct Charley Clark handle the money
md let everybody have an equal chance
II it-but they will not consent 10
". A. handling II.