The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-27
Ninety Per Cent!

n NINETY per cent-that seems to
N be a tavo''ts percentage with
the Clark boodlers. One of the
Clark organs had the impudence to say
that ninety per cent of the democrats
in Cascade county want him elected
The Helena business men who tried
unsuccessfully to work a dishonest
racket with Mr.. Lindsay of Dawson
county, told him that ninety per cent
of the republicans want Clark elected.
Lindsay shut up these Helena lack
eys of Clark, summarly. He publicly
posted them, in manly speech, as a
lot of grafters, so lost to all sense of
self respect that they deliberately
pressGd him to do that which would he
dishonest, dishonorable and indecent.
When these Helena men, some of whom
rank as that towns prominent mer-
chants" get out from under the spell Ct
Clarks gold, how will they hang their
heads in shame when they recall the
cowardly role they are playing! Long,
long after this senatorial controversy
is ended, these men will wear, craven
on their memories, these words rro-
nounced by Representative Lindsay, in
an address before joint session of the
Montana legislatures:
The men who have set themselves up as
the leading business men of the city of
Helena, who would be supposed to give
advice along the line of honor and integ-
rity have gone so far as to say that the
republican contingent in the house should
throw honor to the winds, trample under
their feet their personal integrity be
traitors to their party, in order that one
man might climb to the United States
senate by reason of their treason and DO
Itical dishonor.
With equal dishonesty the Clark or
gans have tried to excuse recent deiiv
cry of two votes to Clark on the mon
strous plea that ninety per cent of the
Cascade county democrats are friendly
to Clark. Ninety per cent, indeed!
Why, in all the years of Clark de-
bauchery in Montana politics, nobody
has ever accused w. A. Clark of hay
ing friends-not unless you propose to
dishonor the meaning Of that grand old
word. No man can buy friends"
Surely the man who buys votes doesn't
buy friendship with them, or even the
commercial article commonly known as
will ho 1,r;l,
look upon each other with contempt
and distrust
Friends, indeed! No intelligent man
ever suspected W. A. Clark of having
support in the senatorial fight that he
did not buy; the incident of the con-
test is the scandalous and unblushing
publicity with which his bribing out
fit has declared it's willingness to buy.
The word friend is too royal and too
noble that it should be applied to the
hirelings of w. A. Clark.
Clark's attitude toward his p,,r-
chased supporters is well expressed in
the burning words Of John NJ. Quinn,
printed yesterday on this page: 'It
is true that during the contest I am
cordial and friendly with men toward
whom I have been cold and Indifferent
for years, but I will Iiquidate all in
debtedness with my gold and turn my
back upon my supporters as soon As l
have reached the goal of my ambition
I will buy the votes of men now in the
legislature and then hate them for the
money which they demand. I can afford
to treat them with contempt in the flu
ture, for by their purchase I will kill
them politically and put a blight upon
their careers. Thus will have a new
set of men to deal with in the next bat
tie"
Ninety per cent Of Cascade county
democracy for Clark! What an insult
to a reputable constituency that scorns
Clark's debauchery, Not by hook or
crook could w. A. Clark make good a
fraction of the claim-if he were, to get
nine per cent in that county's support,
he would have to buy half of it.
Where Commerce Comes In.
From the Buffalo Express.
The German policy in Samoa, however,