The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-03-01
FROM MONTANA.
How . Senator was Elected in
that far off State.


The Choice fell on Clarke who was born
Between UBiontogn and Connesis-
yille--Some inside facts ga the Fight
in that State Brihers Ramp. ss-
Hundreds Of Citizens went t. The Gap
iial to Br.as the Deadlock Fielding
UEri.f get letter from one on the
spot very Interesting peep belliBd
the Scenes in that Conflict.
FIELDING X. O'KRLLY
1g Dear Nephen.
WHITEHALL, Montana. Feb. lS-As
il has nepn some months since | heard
from yon / embrace the present to write
thst ven may know ! am again en-
joving life having slowly recovered from
long siege Of nervous debility and la
grippe az a contingent. Since Oct. LIST
/ have gained Is lbs. in weight
On the 18th of October | had the good
fortune to get back to my home dear
old Whitehall OF precious memory 70 me
and mychildren two OF whom Walter and
my daughter Mrs. Mary Brooke Noble
reside in sight of my home though two
miles distant in the town of Whitehall.
NY youngest daughter the wife of Rev.
E. j. Stanley lives in the bitter root
valley $50 miles Southwest, the great
fruit producing country of the North
west. They supply me with fine APP
Piles and delicious honey.
Well have Just returned home after
a ten days visit to Helena our state cap
ital where our legislative assembly is in
session, their most important business
being that of electing free coinage
silver democrat is to |, to the United
States Senate to succeed Senator Lee
Mantle.
For the past ten years the democratic
party OF Montana has mad faction
known far and wide as the Marcus A.
Daily followers. 1t has been Mr.. Daily
pride to defeat our best men for Office
when it was his interest or pleasure to
do so. Especially was it his pleasure to
do so should the democrats name our
most distinguished citizen, pioneer
among the early pioneers who in the
| front end o. the sixties helped blaze
/ the trail to Montana, whose only capital
consisted of good common sense, an
abundance of politeness and kindness
to his fellowmen, backed by persever-
ance, energy and honest dealing with
all. To-day he is largely the wealth
lest man among Montana milllonaires
and is honored by all who know him
(save the Daily faction) not for his vast
wealth but for his many charitable
deeds. He has thousands OF laborers
on his monthly pay rolls including his
vast copper mines in New Mexico, his
gold and silver mines in Idaho and
Montana, also his vast coal mines in
Montana and his great sugar refinery
in California. Yet such thing as q
strike has never been known among his
thousands of lsborers.
i Not so with the great would be Mon
tana boss, the head of the greatest com
bination in the Northwest if not in tn,
United States, with the Rothchilds, o
England, at the bottom Of it, including
the great Anaconda copper mine o
Butte, the vast reduction works in tht
city Of Anaconda as well as the city
itself with many other silver and golC
mines including thousands of acres OIL
coal in Montana, also the same Amazon
da company own and central the larges
and most complete mercantile estab-
lishment said to be in the Upitel
States. 1t is located in Butte witt
branches wherever the Anaconda havt
men at work, and stealing govermen
and state timber from our forests in tn,
western portion OF the state. This sam,
, Marcus A. Daily as head manager ant
boss OF the Anaconda Rothchilds com
pany came near locating the capital O
Montana at Anaconda at our genera
election in 1896 by practicing the mos
daring bribery ever known. Unfortu
nately for the good of Montana too man.
OF our voters are not permanent citizens
1t matters not to many Of them wher,
our capital is located or who is elected
to fill our many offices. Some Of then
sell their votes at low down rates Will
many acting as they say on a business
, proposition demand and receive large
rates. The trouble is American citizen
ship and the privilege of voting have be
come too common, too cheap, SO mucl
SO that often | think there is but littl
left for Americans to be proud OF.
The large general mercantile estab
lishment referred to as belonging to tn
Anaconda Company located in Butt
was built last summer and fall. 1t GOV
ers an entire block and is five storie
high, with statesmen, ook-keepers an
others and spies to ascertain who of tn
many laborers employed by the Ana
conda or their families deal at thei
; stores. If any they are at once dii
charged. In short all who are in an
way employed by this great monopol
must purchase all their wants of ever
description from the one big concern
By this means they rob their laborer
of the liberty of purchasing their SUP
8 plies where they can get them cheapes
That is one specimen OF American pre-
lection.
As l informed you in the first of thi
D letter that spent ten days in our capits
city it will not be out of place to inforr
you WHY | did so. 1t is this owing t
an unprecedented game of fraud an
bribery and forgery our legislative az
2 sembly got into dead lock so that III
e less it was broken they would fail t
= elect Senator hence it was that hur
dreds Of good citizens from all parts
our great state found their way to til
r capital. | had to go also though tn
= only one to venture on horse back tia
distance at this season of the year.
Bribery commenced before the tw
houses were organized. When the frs
I ballot was being taken two OF the stat
senators announced that they had eac
L received money to vote for w. A. Clark
of Butte. One of them Whiteside,
member from Flat Head county and
q member of.the Daily faction and the cor
tractor who did the work on the in
a mense store building recently erected i
Butte by the Anaconda Company ex
hibited ten one thousand dollar billt
:, the other member from Madison coun
ty lawyer of doubtful character thong
e elected on the straight democratic tick
ct and having declared before the cleo
ton in favor of Hon. W. A. Clark fo
, U. S. Senator presented two thousan
1 dollars. Each made oath that tn
money was presented them by John f
Welcome prominent member of tn
Butte bar each promising to vote for w
A. Clark. This bribery and perjur
caused dead lock. All wanted strit
r investigation. The Judge of the dis
trict court a once impannelled gran
jury to investigate the matter thorough
ly. The Daily faction selected tn
states Attorney General to assist tn
= grand jury in examining witnesses
After spending ten days and examinin
"A witnesses they failed to find bill
owing to the bad reputation of White
side as well as strong circumstantia
evidence and unimpeachable evidenc'
that the money was not received from
John B. Welcome.
Believing before left home as | d
now that w. A. Clark bribed no on
and knowing that Daily was the Dos
, briber as stated before in locating tb
Icapital and knowing as every sensibl
man in Montana knows that Marcus A
Daily by bribery would have had the
capital located at Anaconda had no
W. A. Clark rallied with the help OF hi
great daily paper the Butte Miner Il
permanently locate the capital in He
lena.