The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-09
THE CLARK-DALY FIGHT.
CORRUPTION IN MON
TANA POLITICS SHOWN.

Ten Thousand Dollars the Standard
Price for Votes of Members of the
LegisIature-POOr Men Suddenly
Observation-Disclosures Luck at
Cards, Extraordinary Generosity
of Distant Relatives and Other
strange Explanation for Quick
ACQUISITION of Wealth.
washington Letter in New York World.
There is now proceeding before the Com
nttee on Privileges and Elections of the
senate the most extraordinary contest
Washington has ever seen. The right of
william A. Clark of Montana TO a seat
in the Senate is being Investigated, and
the inquiry has developed evidence show
iug corruption so widespread as to make
even the most cynical gasp.
Those who have seen Butte, the capital
of Montana, describe it as sitting on q
barren mountain forever covered with a
black pail of smoke. 1t is not like the
smoke of other cities, tossed by the wind,
pierced by the sun. Ii lies over Butte
by day and by night, immovabe oml.
nous, repellent. II is a poison smoke. Ii
is filled with deadly exhalations from cop
per and minute particles of arsenic. 1t is
ever attended by death. 1t kills the trees
aud the flowers and the birds. 1t destroys
the fish in the streams. 1t has taken hun
dreds of human lives.
Indeed beneath this mantle of gloom
there is perpetual procession of carriages
moving to the cemetery.
symbol of Montana's Morals
As one listens hour after hour to the
testimony in the Clark case hears the
unblushing stories of bribery notes the
universal moral obtuseness, the general
shamelessness, the story of that ominous
cloud comes back 1t is a symbol of the
moral death that has come with all these
millions?
The Senate contest is merely fight be
tween two of Americas richest men, w.
A. Clark and Marcus DAILY, 1t is part of
struggle which has been going on for
twelve years.
DAILY and Clark are different physically
and mentally; different in methods. in as
prations in manners. DAILY is big aud
rough, a peasant with a mining camp
training. Clark is small and smooth a
school teacher who has developed into a
mine owner DAILY is hot-blooded, impet-
uous. Clark is cool, calculating.
DaIy's the Traits of the West.
Both are men of unusual physical ener-
ey But while Days is the rude energy
of the laborer, Cark's is the higher energy
of the manager. DAILY loves the coarse
boys of the Western plain, the handshake,
the slap on the back, the rough jest,
the warm friendships and bitter hatreds
the hourly sense of power brought home
by rude homage.
Clark the SkiIIfuI Manager.
Clark cares nothing for ALI this He
caly 10 ie
content to sit in New York office and
make things happen in Montana and
Paris. Personal contact gives no pleas
ure to his cold Intellect He is satisfied
to direct great bodies of men through
dummy boards of directors.
DAILY hates as he loves with an exag-
gerated impetuosity. He is always Will
ing to sacrifice himself that his enemy may
suffer. The DAILY of politics is the Daily
of the mine. He drives straight TO his III
innate object just as he would force men
20 push through a tunnel or sink a shaft.
Clark moves through Others where Daily
directs in person. DAILY demands, Clark
requests.
Physical Contrast of the Men.
Physically, DAILY is big, broad-shouder-
ed, deep-chested, powerful. He stands six
feet high and weighs perhaps 225 pounds
He is full-blooded, with the hands of la
borer and the muscles of an athlete.
Clark looks a foot shorter than Daily
slender, delicate, frail little man, weigh
ing perhaps 40 pounds. One of Days
great hands could hold both of Clark's
DAILY is careless in his dress, wears usually
a black SLOUGH hat pulled over his eyes,
long black coat, and much wrinkled
trousers, in the pockets of which his hands
are often thrust.
Clark's dapper little figure is the object
OF study by the best tailors in London and
New York His long frOck coat the very
latest in cut and finish, is carefully but
toned over his hollow chest His trousers
are always neatly creased. His small
Well-shaped feet are always shod in the
most approved fashion. His nails are
carefully manicured and his hands usual
~ gloved. From the top of his high silk
nat, without a hair dsarranged. 10 the toe
Of his neatly polished shoe, every one Of
the sixty odd inches OF this little mans
anatomy shows the, thought and care be-
slowed upon personal adornmenG
Above Mr. Clark's narrow shoulders
and thin little neck rises one of tho
slrangest looking heads in Washington.
His whole face is covered by mop of
reddish beard, while the growth of hair on
his head is phenomenally thick and bushy.
In His Eyes the Power.
out of this mass of hair look two wild
blue eyes so wide open as to seem almost
hdless, unwinking light in color They
are eyes of power and strength, and they
elve the only indication of Clarks domi
mating mind. His nose is small and weak,
has mouth is big and wide and destructive
the mouth of a shark. He has fine
chin, and his lower jaw is SO tremendous
ly developed that it almost seems a de-
formity.
DAILY amuses himself with race horses;
lark with pictures. Curiously enough
hose who are in a position 10 know say
mat while Daily has spent more than
million dollars on t-loroughbreds, he real
~ knows less about them than the hum
hest stable boy in his employment. Pic
ture dealers and connoisseurs smile at the
claims of Clark to be an art patron, de
ride his judgment and sneer at his taste.
No one knows the cause of the quarrel
hetween these two men. They tell vary
ng stories themselves. With their con-
hlcting interests, both enormously rich.
Doth owning mines of copper and gold
ha IA. IL.