Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-23
JOHN GINX
IN WASHINGTON.

t"MNM Rt NNE A+ 80 Nr
Special Correspondence Inter Mountain.
Washington. Feb. 16.-At about 6
o'clock this evening the following note
was handed to me in the Raleigh hotel
saloon:
Mr.. John Ginx:
Come down at once. the devil is to
pay. (Signed)
ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
Waiting only to take six more drinks.
which I mixed in order to increase the
effect, l jumped into a hack and went
down to the Willard hotel. 1 told the
hackman to charge the ride to the COM
pany. and. while he was asking who
that was. 1 disappeared through the
door and told the elevator boy to take
me UP to the room Of the Anaconda re-
form committee.
You mean down; not up said the
boy. "They have hired the cellar now
for a committee room, where they keep
the onions and the garlic. 80 that the
stink the investigation Is making on
their side will not be noticeable or serve
Ito notify the enemy while the witnesses
are being coached"
The boy, therefore, reversed the lever
and took me down to the cellar. where
the committee. each with a cabbage for
q seat, was evidently laboring under
great mental excitement.
'Fellow h~ighbinders," says I, lin
heavens name. what is the matter? But
first of all give me a drink, as I walked
six blocks to get here!"
Instantly each member OF the conn
- -N-.. AL. 1-1 r oVy~nl
myself to all SO as not to create n
jealousy. MY friend Campbell handed
me the following dispatch:
New York. Feb. Is, 1901 have just
learned that the Copper King has sold
out all his Montana interests to the new
! company, and will not return perma-
nently to the state. He wanted to throw
in the Standard and staff for nothing,
but they said they wouldn't have 1t. h
new nag is now in charge at Ana
conda, and the Washington fight has
been called off. L."
1t required several minutes for me to
comprehend the force of this blow. AS
1 finally grasped the situation, 1 asked
the committee to pass the bottles again,
! and addressed them in the following en-
couraging words:
"Fellow Conspirators: At last the Jig
is up. That damned afternoon news
| paper at Butte, when it said h a we
should all be set afoot and that Barney
| Shanahan would be riding in an auto
! mobile through the streets of Butte, was
right after all. But let us remember, gen.
tlemen, that while there is life there IL
a chance to switch. It is all right to
talk about the American eagle. but in
true democracy with its highest inspira-
tions. Like that noble animal. whose
| progress is backward, we must tax the
back track instanter. Our motto must
! be. Get in out of the wet, and board the
Clark bandwagon, or u name is mud
I o mind telling you, gentlemen. com
~fidentially, that / always had great re-
| spect for the Hon. w. A. Clark, and I
believe he should have the seat to which
he was honestly and rightfully elected"
Scarcely were these words out of my
mouth when the committee, to a man.
broke out in wild applause, shouting:
"Vive lie Clark! A has Anaconda"
"Hurrah for my friend Clark" said
| Congressman Campbell. II was the first
man to ask him to make the race. There
is no better man in Montana than the
junior senator, and I hope he will be
glued to his seat. I have conducted the
case against him in such a rotten man.
l 41CA k10S ! W. AoA z A4V" AS q A1AAs
IT endorse what Mr.. Campbell said,
remarked the Chief Jollier of the com
mittee. II have had to oppose him al
times, but I always voted for him
thanks to the Australian ballot system
and still held my job. He should keer
his seat by fair mean il he can, and II
not, by foul"
well said!" interrupted Col. Tom
Marshall. II had nothing to do with the
vile attempt to GUST him. I am a re.
publican, and not interested in the cas-
except to keep my partner, Stiff, from
opposing him too violently"
"You are wrong" said Stiff. 'That
man Cook lied when he said that I want
ed $780, 900 to vote for Mr.. Clark. VIVA
I really said was that I would not mis-!
voting for him for $780, 900. But I though
he really did not wan to be elected"
"As for me-" said Whiteside. "you al
know where I stand. I am for him first
last, and all the time. I put up tina
$4,000 myself, and made that grand
dound to his advantage and make hi
triumph certain by showing his enemie.
to be a band Of choice and carefully Sc
lected idiots"
"And I wish to explain" said Senator
Clark of Madison county, 'that I woult
have supported him throughout the figh
but for the fact that his name. being
the same as mine, I thought people nigh
; think I vas voting for myself, and tina
I might be elected In his place by acct
. dent. I regard him as one Of Gods NO
blemen, and q credit to the great famil,
Of the Clarks."
"As far as I am concerned" said tn
statesman from Bozeman. II have n
personal feeling against Senator Clark