The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-24
FElJD OF DALY-UARk
TaE RESULTS OFF THE ENMITY OF
DIONTANA,S TWO BIG
POLITICIANS
THEY WAGE WAR FOB YEARS
The state Involved la Constant Tur-
nlOfI by These Two Fierce Fight
ers-The Capital Contest and the
Senatorial Battfe-FeEce IN Sight
at Last Through Intervention of
Standard Oil Interests.


Senatorial BattIe-FeEce IN Sight
at Last Through Intervention of
Standard Oil interests.
BUTTE, Mont, Sept. z1.--Such q country
asethts of Montana breeds men and he
sroes. The pioneers of this state are
worthy sires of a race that in future will
be great.
Men who meet w. A. Clark IN Washing
ton, in London, or Paris, and hear him
talk of the great masters OF art and lit
erature, can have no conception OF the
W. A. Clark Of quarter of a century ago.
Today he is not half so picturesque
figure playing dilletante and statesman as
the Bill Clark who made the famous ride
to Butte to call the pioneers to arms
against the Nez Perez Indians in 1877.
He covered the distance Of forty-two
miles in three and one-haR hours, and
the entire way he rode but one noble ami
NAL. DsArtagnan, in his most glorious
days, could hardly have done better.
The Maj. Clark who led the Butte bat
talon against Chief Joseph-that most re-
doubtable of Indian warriors-and sang
Banner" for his command is far moro
interesting personality than the Senator
Clark who will soon join the distinguished
galaxy of men who form the United
States senate.
The Marcus DAILY of today is different
from the Marcus, DAILY of the past.
Boundless wealth and the parasites that
crawl around it's possessor have changed
him from what he once was. He grew UP
in an Irish village and his ideals were
shaped by the story and traditions of a
race whose past, either In tragedy or in
glory, has no parallel In the worlds an
nails. While poor and unknown these ira
ditfons were his religion and his life But
when fortune showered wealth and fame
upon him the ideals of his dawning years
died, land he preferred the ephemeral adj
vantages of Masonic associations to the
traditions of his race, and he allowed his
children to prefer the creed OF the stran-
ger to the religion of his sainted mother
who sleeps her last sleep in an Irish VII
lage churchyard.
Daily has had noble and a generous
heart, but success and gold have almost
transformed him. He has done immense
services for his state, and in his younger
days he conferred benefits which made
many men great and famous John w.
Mackay and James G. Fair owed him
more than the world ever knew. It was
Marcus Daily that pointed out the road to
George Hearst through which he achieved
boundless wealth, a. seat in the American
senate, and a name that was not I'M
worthy of being classed as illustrious. He
has done ten thousand goodfy deeds in
secret Today he will exhaust the vo-
cabulaEy of the English language denoun-
cling certain people, and on the morrow
his purse will be at the disposal of the
men denounced.
DAILY is a strange and complex charac-
ter. That character is full of contradic-
tions and those who will understand 1t
must always recollect that poverty.
struggle, danger, and distress were his
partners In early life and that never for
him have the gates of higher education
and learning stood ajar.
DALY-CLARK FEUD.
The rivalry of Marcus Daily and w. A.
Clark forms for twenty years part