The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-11-20
THE SENATORIAL SITUATION.

the Clark-Heinze alliance had been dis
solved and that discord of a decidedly
muscular sort had taken the place of
that u%nanimity of purpose and fratern-
ity which marked the actions of the
principals up to the time of the election.
It now appears that Heinz had designs
when he Joined forces with Clark and
became an ally of v%indication. He
successfully kept those designs to him.
self until the necessity for maintaining
secrecy had passed and then he let it
be known that he had Heinze in mind
when he became a f%usionlst and
branched out as all ''eight hour re-
publican.
Heinze is credited with nursing am
billions inimical to those cherished by
Mr.. Clark and a clash has followed.
some say he is possessed of all over
towering desire to shine as a west side
Warwick and merely wants to say who
shall be the senator from that section
of the state, and that it shall be someone
other than Clark, while some go so far
as to assert hat when it m to first
class senatorial timber the smooth
faced autocrat of the dump feels COM
petent to speak in the first person, sin
gular. Whichever of these reports is
true. certain it is that the concert is
badly. disrupted and that both of the
former subscribers to it now regard
each other with anything but kindness
and affection.
As usual, Clark inclines to be sell
fish and gives his late ally. to under
stand that he should be satisfied with
the reflected glory that m from
having been on the winning side and
that decency should urge him to be
content with remaining Oh the proba-
TONERS list for a reasonable time. To
this Heinze makes reply that it was a
fusion fight any way and that having
been successful he has just as much
right to claim democratic recognition
as any ma who took part in it. Thus
it will be seen that Mr.. Clark will not
have the clear sailing he expected to
have. but will find himself beset by
shoals and adverse winds that he lever
suspected would interfere with his
second passage into the harbor he has
been trying for years to reach. While
Clark is having all open fight on his
hand with hienze, there is still anoth-
er possibility that may rise to annoy
him. H. L. Frank has a large and
active list of friends who are set in
the notion that he would make about
as good a senator as the state could
have. 1t is true that Mr.. Frank is
one of Mr.. Clark's stanchest and
most loyal friends, who has stood by
him for years and often managed his
campaigns, and that he declares he is
not a candidate SO long as to be SO
would interfere with his chiefs am
billions and plans, still Mr.. Frank is
but human and it is hard telling how
far a mans loyalty "a be relied upon
in a case of that kind. Mr.. Frank
goes no further than to say he is not a
candidate and allows his friends to
continue their work. 1t will be- seen
that his .declination does not go to the
extent of binding him SO hard that he
would allow the state to be short a
senator rather than accept the plum
if were sought to force it into his
basket. So much for the condition
of affairs i'll the fusion ranks on the
west side. Over Oh the east matters
are not much better. There a very
robust phantom in the person Of the
governor-elect persists in showing
itself. Pressure has been brought tc
bear to keep the pulchritudinous J.. K.
in the back ground by inducing him
to be content with the governorship.
While it is said that he has to a Ger.
tain extent promised to keep out OF
the fight, he is unable to efface all
recollections of the promises made tc
him two years ago, when his chances
of election were SO good that the
Clark managers implored him not to
become a candidate and pledged them
selves to support him two years later.
He also persists in remembering
that no later than last summer he
was assured that he could have the
place if he would only consent to make