Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-05
Mr.. CLARK'S
STATEMENT
All the Bribery Charges Are
Positively Denied.
WHITESlDE'S STANDING
Is Brought Into Question in Re-
gard to Charges Made
Against Clark.
NO FEAR OF THE RESULT
NO FEAR OF THE RESULT
The New Senator Says it is Only a
Conspiracy Against Him--He is Not
Surprised at the Action Taken by
Governor Smith.

New York, Dec. 5.-The Worlds Wash
ington correspondent telegrapls the fol-
!! lowing statement dictated by Senator
w. A. Clark of Montana:
"lt may seem remarkab BILE to those who
do not know our populist governor that
rs should sign such a protest having
signed my credentials after All the d.
velopments in the senatorial contest at
Helena. More than this, the credentials
We're signed after thorough investigation
had been made by legislative commit
| tee and BY q grand jury, and after the
IlndlnSs Or both had been reported. Since
then no new evidence mas been ELECTED,
~ those who know Governor Smith,
however, his action gives no cause for
surprise. AS to the $50. 900 exposure. the
circumstances related are too absurd to
be creditable to any reasonable person
"The evidence given in the recent dis
barment proceedings against Attorney
Welcome before the state supreme court
Of Montana by Whtaside and State Sem
ator Clark is SO conflicting and contra
dictory as to compare with that which
they gave before the grand Jury as to
entirely discredit and make their state
mentS nugatory, and besides the evidence
of a number Of the most prominent and
honorable men of the state was produced
to impeach the character of these men
for veracity. Whiteside is now under
bond to appear before the district court
in which he lives, and will be arraignad
on Wednesday to answer a charge Of
having attempted to bribe the deputy
county clerk to give him access to the
vaults in which ballot boxes We're stored
in November 1898, AT which time he was
a candidate for state senator, and be-
lieved he had been defeated. Over
Whelming evidence Will be produced in
subslantaton of this charge against
Whiteside.
After Whitesde had made his charges
of bribery in the state senate, demand
ed that jury be called To make a most
searching investigation The presiding
judge charged the jury fully to leave no
stone unturned in their efforts to reach
the guilty persons If an altempt at
bribery had been made. 4 large number
OF witnesses were examined during an
investigation lasting two weeks The
grand jury reported that there was no
evidence upon which an Indictment
could be found There is another thing
which has been mSunderstOod and that
is that in all these alleged cases of
bribery it has not been shown in a single
instance by any evidence that any of
the parties SO charged at any time voted
for me-
he statements cDtulIIeI TO the pf- |
feet that a preacher named Warren tes-
tilted that | had authorized him to pay
$4,000 to a friend who he alleges stood |
ready to vote for me for a consideration. !
has been falsely reported. All that he
did say, and that was an Infamous lie. |
was that | could not consider any promo |
sition of that kind myself, but would !
see that it was attended to- This /;
divine during his talk with me, asked |
for a contribution for his church at /
East Helena. l gave him a check for
$lo0. lie was very careful to have the
check made payable to him instead of /
the trustees of his church. After an ex !,
animation of the Endorsements upon the |
check am quite confident that he pock- /
eted the money himself and that the
church did not profit any by the con
tribution.
This contest instituted today Is the
elimination of an unnrOvoked, perni-
clous. malicious and bitter warfare
which has been waged against me for II
years by parties who have used every
means to control not only the politics.
but the executive judicial and legislative
departments of the state. and to naonopo-
iiZe the vast public business interests of
the state. l am quite willing to leave
this matter i'm the hands of United
States senator's, knowing that upon n full
investigation | will be acquitted of every
suspicion of guilt