The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12
SUNDAY. NOVEMBER IL, 1899.
PAGES.


IN blatant assault on Marcus DAILY,
I the editorial page of w. A Clark's
Helena newspaper announces that
a conspiracy against the body polite"
is in sway, that Mr.. Daily is the head
of it and that a day of reckoning is
coming
When, last January one after an
other men whom this state respected,
, and now respects, passed up to the desk
of the presiding officer in the Montana
legislature bank bills in lots of ten
! thousand dollars. declaring under oath
that this was money with which it
had been proposed to buy their votes
for w. A. Clark-when that occurred
Mr.. Clark's Helena Independent sought
cover under the lying assertion that
this total of thirty thousand dollars
was Marcus Days money and that it
was the token of conspiracy. Thus,
by Mr.. Clark's own volition. the we'll
defined issue was drawn--bribery or
conspiracy.
In type, from rostrunas, In scores and
hundreds Of gatherings in Montana,
far beyond the borders of the state,
w. A. Clark bought his senatorial sup
port in this states legislature. During
all these months has Mr.. Clark ever
lifted a finger toward bringing to pub
lie notice the evidences of the 'eon-
spiracy" he and his newspapers have
alleged? Not he. Has any man among
those who, openly and repeatedly, have
been charged with bribing voters for
Clark's benefit ever moved an inch in
and to punishment the conspiracy"
they have SO noisily proclaimed? Not
man among them.
On the contrary, the desperate effort
of these Clark flenchmen has been, with
utmost effort, to thwart all of the pro-
cesses by virtue of which alone it is
possible ever to let Montana's people
and the larger public know what the
facts are and what the truth. John
B. Welcome is the Clark agent who,
time and time again, has been accused
of giving out in bribery tens of thous-
ands of dollars of w. A. Clark's money.
Is Mr.. Welcome on trial to-day re-
cause he has asked the highest court
in the commonwealth to sift the &C
cusations against him and proclaim the
ascertained truth? No. he is not; to
man and to the extent of resources
which at one time seemed almost linz
itless, this Clark clique has resisted
the movement by which this alterna-
tive--bribery or conspiracy-has been
brought, most justly, to arbitrament,
in its prelminaries. at least, before
tribunal which the people trust.
What, yesterday morning. was said
in the columns of w. A, Clark's Helena
Independent, was vivid manifestation
of a spirit more dangerous than mere
malignancy. In brutal betrayal of an
assassin's instinct, the Helena Indepen-
dent f1ourishes the announcement that
DAILY will not live always" True, in
deed, these words. Cminous their i'm
port as they flash out from the pages
of the Independent; they bring into
startling recollection other men-as
worthy as ever Marcus Daily was-whc
have been the victims of mysterious
murder at polling places where the In
dependents fayorlte was known to bC
weak.
Manifesting a criminals instinct, i
has been the recent policy OF Mr.
Clark's Helena newspaper to herald re-
ports absolutely false and cruelty UNI
warranted to the effect that the mar
for whom 1t parades its hate is al
deaths door. The public has discov
cred that the Helena Independent car
no longer still It's wish that Marcus
DAILY were dead or its insane hope that
he is dying. Thus have been forcec
upon this newspaper, compelling its at
tention, the lying reports which in re
cent weeks the Helena Independent
has sought to spread. Glad, indeed
Ehe Standard IS to add on testimony
which the writer of this knows to pe
absolutely true that, not later than
o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mr.. DAILY