The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-22
THE FURIOUS ENMITY
OF DAILY AND CLARK
COPPER KINGS ENGAGED IN A
DEATH TussLE.

DEATH TUSSLE.
Story in Detail Of the Feud Which
Has for Years Kept the Politics
of Montana in a Ferment and Led
to the Bribery Charges Under In
vestigation at Washington.
n HE INTENSE fued which has for
several years existed between
Senator Clark. of Montana, and
Il Marcus Daily, the Anaconda
copper king, has been exploited
to some extent at washington In con-
nection with Daly's attempt to have
clark unseated; but the full story of
the fight between the two men Is not
generally known and reads like page
of fiction. Below will be found the re-
suits of Walter Wellman's researches
into the matter. as set forth IN
letter to the Chicago Times Herald.
Twelve or thirteen years ago Daily
and Clark were friends and business
associates. Daily and Clark's brother
had married sisters. Their careers had
in a measure been similar1through
poverty to aflluence. Daily had set
out from ireland q barefoot hoy. He
was first an office boy in New York
bank, next a stevedore on q steam
boat landing in New Orleans and
thence had gone west to seek his for
tune in the mines. He began as
common miner, but displayed abilities
which lifted him above the level, at
tracted the attention Of wealthy men
and thus brought him his chance. He
is now worth two or three dozen mill
lion dollars.
Clark, q natiye OF Pennsylvania, and
distantly related by marriage TO Sena-
tor Quay, had taught district school.
read law and then drifted out west.
He began as a store-l<eeper at VIA
ginia City. blossomcd into a banker.
bought winning properties and to pre-.
vent being fooled, came back east
and took a two years course in min
eralcgy at the Columbia school OF
mines. With this knowledge hc bought
the United Verde mines, then supposed
to be worthless. and made millions out
of them.
Contrasts.
DAILY Is a horsc-fancier. rough. DOM
ineering, illiterate. Clark Is smooth,
polished, educated and a lover of art
and the fine things of life. They are
naturally antlpathetic. One was a
copper king and the other was not
satisfied until he had become a copper
king also. Clark started to build a
palace for his daughter in New York,
whereupon DAILY bought one of the AS
tor mansions in Fifth avenue.
Naturally each of the principals in
this vendetta of the millionaires must
have a newspaper organ out in Mon
tana to defend himself and abuse the
other fellow. Daily owns the Anaconda
Standard and Clark the Butte Miner.
1t is said Clark bought the latter one
day because a cartoon that appeared
in it with himself as the subject made
him angry. The paper was owned by
friends of DAILY who had greatly en-
joyed putting the sharp end of the
knife into Clark right in his own town
Of Butte.
But within forty-eight hours Mr..
Clark had secured possession Of the
property, and when Mr.. Daily picked
up his copy of the Miner the next
morning and settled himself back in
his chair to enjoy the usual daily at
tack upon his rival he met with a
great and painful surprise. There was
the attack all right. with its fine flow
OF adjectives and blunt western sar-
casm. but Marcus DAILY, not William
A. Clark, was the victim.
The rival newspapers owned by the
rival millionaires are handsome, ex-
| pensively published sheets. Neither of
them pays dollar of profits But--and
here a striking difference between the
| two men shows itsef-the Clark paper
comes near paying its expenses, while
! the DAILY paper swallows up from $500,
900 to 100000 year. DAILY does not
care for expenses. and runs the Ana
| conda Standard wide OPEN" He prints
| pretty nearly as good a paper as there
! is in the city of New York, and pays a
tidy sum for the pleasure of doing so.
Anaconda and Butte are near togeth-
Grand one of the joys of Daly's life is to
| put the Standard by means of special
train every morning into his enemy's
town of Butte before the enemy's hated
sheet is off the press. Clark Is not like
DAILY in this respect. He has a money
mind" He is "close' with his bank
book. except in great emergencies, like
the purchase Of legislature or a Chef
douvre. So the Clark newspaper has
to worry along with petty loss ol
f, only 100000 or $4,000 year. The cop.
per kings have their fads and fancies
each according to his bent, but hatred
, of one another appears to be their rul.
ing passion.
Origin Of the Row.
Many stories are told Of the origin o
the feud between Clark and Daily. One
is that when DAILY was superintendent
of the Alice mine Clark wrote letter
to Walker Brothers of Salt Lake, tn,
owners, savagely criticising DAILY:
management and that this letter tn,
Walkers promptly forwarded to DAILY
Another is that in developing the Ana
conda mines he had to have a certain
water supply, and tried to oust q prio
claimant. This man declined to sci
for $4,000, and being poor was unabl,
to fight DAILY, but being shrewd went t,
Clark and sold out for $4,000. Clarl
then turning round and making Dal,
put up a cool 100000 for the property
Montana men who know both mel
well doubt the accuracy of both thes
stories. Another and more proba bl
one is told, and it came from Mr.. Dal,
himself. On the occasion of one of j
Il. Haggin's visits to Montana he an,
Daily wanted to talk with Clark, an
sent for him: but Clark was not Il
good humor that day, and was stand
ing on his dignity. His reply, there
fore, laid unnecessary emphasis upol
the apparent fact that If Haggin an
Daily wanted to see him they kney
where he lived. In some such triflin
matter as this. no doubt, came the firs
| break of friendly relations. the begin