The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-10-31
DISGRACE OF
MONTANA.
The Shame Brought Upon the
State by Boodler Clark.
GIVEN TO THE WORLD
Audaeity Of His Bribing and Purchasing
Campaign Now Being Carried
On by Him.

Politics in Montana is certainly
picturesque, if not honest" said P.
II. Negley, a Great Falls wool buyer
to the Minneapolis Times. Don't
understand by that" he continued,
'tnat all people in Montana politics
are not honest. w. A. Clark the
democratic senator from Montana
whom the United States senate
threw out for having purchased his
election seems to be trying his ut
most to corrupt everyone in the stae.
He is there making a campaign for
what he calls vindication. His pol
itical opponents do not see what he
has to vindicate, but that is what he
calls it, just the same. His real pur-
pose is to secure the election of a
legislature which, in January, will
elect him as one Of the two senators
to be chosen at that session. Mon
tana is represented by but one SEN
atcr since Clark was thrown out, and
that one-Carter-Wnl go out in
March.
Clark is making Doodle cam
paign, pure and simple, and strange
as it may seem, he stands a chance
to win in many of the "a counties of
the state
He managed to capture the dem
ocratic organization in the state,
and at the Kansas city convention,
by promising Dick Croker that he
would give him $5OOOOO to be pre-
sented by Aammany to the national
committee, secured a national rec
ognition of his organization.
After that he went to Europe and
cut his contribution down to $4,000.
OF course the national committee is
sore. That soreness is shown by the
fact that at the convention of DEM
Ocratic cubs at indianapolis the
other day Clark was deposed from
the office of treasurer OF the national
organization of clubs and his hated
rival, Marcus Daily, was elected in
his stead. lhe 1unny part of it all
is mat DAILY objects to his name
being usedin that manner to spite
Clark and S not"
Despite tue fact that Clark con-
trolled tn democratic organization in
Montana, the opposition to him
which includes the DAILY faction,
went to the state nominating con-
vention at Helena, Sept. 8. Clark,
however, mad a host of contesting
delegates present, although none
of them had a legal title to seats,
and matters were arranged so that
the central committee heard the con-
tests.The committee seated the con-
testants save from one county, Deer
Lodge, whose G3 delegates made a
dramatic scene by walking out of the
convention, followed by an equal
number of other delegates.
"The populist commi..ee has long
been dead in Montana, but Clark
revived it and mad populist state
convention going on in Helena at
the same time. ne also had worked
upon a few labor leaders and
jumped up a so-called labor party
convention sitting there at the same
time. His object was fusion and
the move, from the point of view of
d practical politician, was good. He
effected his fusion between the
democrats and the populists, but the
laborites refused to recognize their |
creator in the days of their youth |
and quit him cold, nominating their
own ticket. He has posed as friend
of labor but his slate embraced a
corporation lawyer for governor and
the laborites would not stand for
that.
.'The opposition to Clark met and
organized the Independent demo-
craticparty 1t has state ticket in
the field with county tickets in "a
counties.
Naturally Montana is democratic,
but this rule or ruin policy of Clark
is killing the party there and it
would not surprise me to see the
republicans make clean sweep of
the state. They have used good
and have nominated men who are
judgment in selecting their ticket
not connected in any manner with
any of the opposing corporations
which are in reality, the basis of
the factions in the state.
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