Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-15

BUTTE, MONTANA,
ed because he does not belong to a union.
He insists on his right to give employ
ment to whomsoever he pleases, paying
| the union scale. and If after the man goes
to work in the mine he cares to join the
union, all right.
BITTER ROOT RANCH
Up in the Bitter Root valley DAILY has
his breeding farm and orchard. In num-
Der OF trees Daily has the second 'larg-
est apple orchard in the country. AS to
his horse establishment, the newspaper
reader knows that he has bought the
bluest bloOded animals he could find.
Probably the happiest days of his busy
life are spent on his Bitter Root ranch,
Each summer he is there with his fam.
lily. He always has friends there. They
are not, as a rule, people who have fine
places of their own Boys and girls of
the age of his own children are the prin-
clpal visitors, and to see DAILY with the
youngsters one would not suppose he was
carrying the burdens of one of the big
gest enterprises in the Northwest. An
Illustration will show another phase of
Days character.
Before he built his smelter at Anacon-
ola the valley below the works was rich
and productive. He bought a number of
farms, n the tailings from the works
and the copper impregnated water were
allowed to run down on the land. Grad
ualiy the water covered more and more
ground, n some of the ranchmen h
would not sell save at exaggerated prices
found their ranches were being ruined.
They went to DAILY n complained. He
said he would pay a fair price for the
ranches, blu he would not be robbed.
Among the sufferers was a man who had
given an option On his place to a real es-
tate agent. This agent had tried to make
DAILY pay a fabulous price for the prop
erty and threatened a big damage suit.
DAILY told him to go ahead; that he
would not be imposed upon. The ranch
man had a friend who was we'll thought
OF by DAILY and whom DAILY trusted. The
ranchman was in poor health and want
to DAILY and told him of the circum-
stances. II do not want to rob any
man." said Daily, but I will not be rob-
bed. I think that place is worth so
much. Now you get a good man to place
a value on it and I will pay for it. hut
that thieving agent is not to get a cent"
The valuation was fixed higher than Da-
~ had placed it, but he paid it without
dissent, only STIMULATING that the owner
get it all.
In his home life DAILY is a model hus-
band and father. While most indulgent,
there is one point where his wife's per-
suasive powers lave in the past been
without avail. He will not sit for a pho
tograph. Some years ago the newspapers
wanted to get a picture Of him.. His wife
was appealed to, but she could not get
him to sit. DAILY is not a public speak
er. In his whole residence in Montana
he has not talked in public more than
half q dozen times, I'M then he has spo-
ken for but a few minutes.
MEN OF OPPOSITE CHARACTERIs-
TICS.
Daily Is a lusty, ruddy faced Irishman,
and In his prime was broad of shoulder
and deep Of chest. Clark is slender, a
man of little physical force. DAILY is
hearty, impetuous, enthusiastic. Clark is
cool, reserved, almost pessimistic. DAILY
1s magnetic. There is a rOllicking burr
IN his tongue sometimes, and If he man.
giles the queens English it is because
we'll, probably he does it on purpose.
Clark Is precise in language, suave and
polished. Have you never seen a man
whose intellect was so cool it seemed to
chill you? One gets that impression from
Clark. i9T'
All the country knows the story of
Clark's election to the senate by the leg
islature of Montana. the protest against
his taking his seat by sundry citizens of
the state. who allege that he bought his
seat, and Who give names and amounts
in five figures, and his countercharge that
AAS Az SAAS vANSAAA ~ " IA ~ III WAA1AA
DAILY is alleged to be the prime instigator.
The senate will decide the facts in the
case. Citizens of Montana are interest,"
ed. The good name of the state is at
stake. ST. A80- 0+
William A. Clark is the best organized
piece of human machinery I have ever
known"
This is the statement of a man who
knows Senator Clark intimately and who
has studied his character. He gives it
as the summing up of the characteristics
which have made the man successful in
many lines of human endeavor. His
mental organization gives him q grasp
of details which is marvellous, and which
enables him to retain the unflagging
mastery of the gigantic business enter
prises he has created. Although he is at
the head of mercantile, manufacturing,
mining and agricultural concerns whose
Capitalization run far into the millions,
employing more than 5000 men. there is
no detail too small to engage his at
tention. Distance from the scene OF OPP
Grafton cuts no figure with him. He an
initiates space, as he does time, and
wherever the electric wire runs he keeps
his hand upon the key and is in touch
with his responsibilities.
CLARK A MASTER OF DETAILS.
Even here, while he is conducting the
great fight of his life, battling for his seat
in the senate n his good name, he Ov-
erlooks nothing. Every night before he
goes to bed he scans the daily reports
forwarded to him of teh progress of his
business. 1t may be of his immense
stnelters at Butte, his fabulously rich
copper mines in Arizona, his million dol
lar beet sugar factory in Southern Cali
fornia, his rubber and coffee plantations
in Mexico, his coal minea, railroads, wire
mills or what not, he must know daily