The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-09

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Had it not been for the bitter personal
quarrel between Mr. Marcus Daily and
Senator Clark. a contest would never have
been thought OF. No one of the other can
didates voted for felt himself aggrieved or
wronged. There was nothing in the way
Of politics involved. Only Mr.. Daily was
mad because his antagonist had been sue
cessful. To prevent him from taking or
keeping his seat he was apparently willing
TO spend a large amount of money. and
doubtless has done 50. as he bluntly con-
fesses that he foots the bills.
So far as the State of Montana has been
heard from, there has been no complaint.
Mr.. Marcus DAILY was not satisfied with the
result and it is under his auspices and
/ through his agencies that this miserable
mass Of mendacity has been spread be-
fore the public for the past seven weeks
| A pretty penny it must have cost him.
Mr.. Faulkner's scathing denunciation Of
! Congressman Camphelrs connection with
the matter was a refreshing feature of his
summing up. It could have been still
!
Campbell ran on the same ticket which
elected the Democratic legislators who
made Mr. Clark senator Il was the money
contributed by Mr. Clark in organizing
the party and rescuing it from the per-
sonal control Of Mr.. DAILY that made his
tCampbell's) election possible Yet while
the smiling beneficiary of Mr.. Clark's
md h.
ing with the miserable creature known as
Whiteside to implicate Clark's friends
with offers of bribery. first suggesting it
and then busy in attempts to carry IL out,
if not under Campbeirs legal direction.
certainly with his knowledge and encour-
agement
For the Senate committe to sustain in
any way such efforts to betray and degrade
a man of honorable repute would be to
put premium on backmailing Had Mr.
clark been as easy a victim as Whiteside
and his gang hoped he might be. they
would doubtless have been as willing to
have taken his money as Days. and at
the last would probably have been as
ready to suppress their manufactured afT-
davits as to have submitted them, 4 with
holding had been as profitable.
To imagine that such men were moved
by any desire to protect the honor OF
credit Of the State is to admit utter i'm
becility.
We confess to strong sympathy for
the defendant in such an encounter with
thieves and blaekmailers. He has been
obliged to passiveIy meet their attacks
and dignity their accusations by efforts
to disprove them. He has told his story
candidly and without acTimony. He has
submitted to most unpleasant scrutiny
of his business dealings and expenditures.
and to a man whose extensive enterprises /
involve the payment of millions of dollars
in the course of year, nothing could be
more distastefuI. He seems to have held
nothing back in the way of information /
that could have decently been asked for. I
He might have said. Il have been elect /
ed fairly and stand upon my unquestioned /
rights. 1t is for you to prove that sin
gle vote was given me from unworthy /
motives or illegally. and until that is (
shown | have no statement to make-no 1
answer to give" This. however. he did !
not do, but met squareIy every suspicion /
and Explained fully every doubt !
full circumstance He is entitled to a
complete vindioatioR, and We cannot for /
a moment doubt that he will have it.
1t may comfort Mr.. Mckinley to realize
that while his Methodist brethren are ex-
tremely severe on him as 4 canteenist,
they are. to all appearance, stoutly i'm
perlalistic In the Methodist Conference
in New York Saturday, the committee on
temperance made a report in which it
asked Congress to pass laws against the
sale of liquor in our new possessions. Amid
great enthusiasm this was amended so as
10 cali on the President as a Christian
man and CommandeT-in-C Chief OF the Army,
to put a stop to the liquor traffic in the
new Territories" We are not sure
whether or not this slight to the legisla-
tive branch Of the Government is merely
the natural outgrowth Of Methodist i'm
perialism. Possibly it may have some
reference to the celebrated speech OF Mr..
Payne in which he defended a tariff on
Porto Ricos domestic commerce. since.
otherwise, we should have to tax the
heap rum of those poor people. and thus
iepriye them of a necessity Of life.
For the credit Of the British royal
amiiy it is to be hoped that there IS no
ruth in the story that the Duke Of Teck
vas responsible for the K0orn Spruit dis
ster, and saved himself at the expense Of
his men and guns. He and his brother
icing great graudsons Of George III. are
he nearest TO royal position OF any off
ers at the front. In the absence OF any
member Of the Queens immediate family
he credit of the Guelphs is in their hands.
without n Country.
(From tine Chic8go Times. Hs.4lID
Deserted by Spain. denied American citizen
hip by the Republican majority IN Washington,
be inhabitants Of Porto Rico present the spec
5cle Of sl39S7 msn without a country. OF
curse, some of them are women, some children, {
nd some $4,000 negroes. But whatever their s
ay, whatever their age. whatever color may {
ave been burned upon them by the sun Of e
,aygn, they have no tag 10 which they can APP {
cal. no Government 90 which they must bow in
,ye. in gratitude, and in loyal devotion This I
} The meaning Of the >eE4te bill.
Trusts la China.
FrUm tie Boston HeradJ E
IN one respect the trusts in China appear to
more benehcent than those which have been