The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-13
1t Won't Stick.
Asst nights belated train from

= asst nights belated train from
Helena brought to the Standard
Office a package which included
letter from a correspondent who ex
presses the hope that the Standard will
open its columns to a citizen of Hell
ena." The Standard assuredly does that
with pleasure. The correspondent, in
his style and statement, SO reveals
himself that, we presume, good many
readers will stablish his identity. An
excellent citizen he is; a man who IN
useful ways has served Montana well.
The timely and very significant point
brought out by this correspondent IS
that when it comes to conspiracy"
against a candidate for high office.
there are no presidents to be found in
American history. There are numerous
cases of bribery accounted for, but
Clark is the first man who has had the
bastard impudence to set up the baby
plea that he is the victim of CON
spiracy''
AS the weeks go by. the thousand
dollar bills keep bobbing up. A good
many of them have been traced right
back home to the men who voted for
Clark and whose votes Clark bought
AS the number Of these bills increases,
the Clark crowd finds it harder and
harder to make any man believe that
the special lot Of thirty one-thousand-
dollar bills lodged in the state treasury
are bills in conspiracy" against the
other thousand-dollar bills which Clark
passed out as lavishly as If they didn't
cost him a cent.
If this man Clark was the victim of 50
unusual and extraordinary thing as
a conspiracy he certainly ought to
spare no time or money In running the
rascals down. To find the conspirators
ought to be a task not at all impossible
of achievement. Clark can afford it;
the most searching pursuit would not
cost him fifteen per cent. of the money
which, as his literary bureau has re-
Gently caused to be announced in New
York newspapers, he expects to spend
on the building of residence palace
at Honolulu saa
When you think of it, the idea of put
ship, but merely in conspiracy against
a man who announced at the outset
that he would spend limitless amounts
for the senatorship-when you think of
it, you have to think two or three
times before you get the lack of merit
there is in this blackguard allegation
about conspiracy quite to rights in your
mind.
At any rate. if there was a conspir-
acy, during these ten months the Clark
clique hasn't lifted a finger toward ex-
posing it. Rather the desperate eff
fort of the clique has been to prevent
inquiry of any kind into this sena-
ed was for everybody to say not a word.
Where they blundered was in permit
ting Welcome, who remained weeks
out of the state, to return to Montana
and thus come within reach of legal
service. w. A. Clark realizes that now.
to his sorrow: Welcome realizes it, to
his greater sorrow; and, as recently as
Wednesday of last week, some of w. A.
Clark's attorneys said in SO many
words that they painfully realize it.
The kind OF conspiracy that would
have been good for something is the
kind that would have conspired Mr..
Welcome to protracted term at Men
tone or Florence or Dresden or any old
place across the sea-
The man who invented for w. A.
Clark's use the allegation of conspiracy
is a man mentally equipped for any
bold crime. At the same time, the
Clarks have discovered that the thing
Der wear