Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-19

VIII presumably De lor hiiu again
Then there are five republican hold
over state senator's. as follows:
Phillips. of Choteau county; Hobson,
of Fergus county: Geiger. of Flathead
county: Mitchell, OF Tenton county;
Worden. of Missouia county.
The first four of these voted for Mr..
Clark two years ago. q
The senate as now constituted will
therefore stand as follows, estimated on
a pro-Clark and anti-Clark basis:
FOR CLARK.
Murray of B~eaverhead. Tierney of
Broadwater, Cullen of Dawson. Kennedy
of Deer Lodge. Hoffman of G%allatin,
Warner of jefferson. Riggs of Lewis and
Clarke. Conrow of Park, Mahon of VAL
ley, Cruel of Yellowstone. Connolly
of Granite, making a total of II.
The anti-Clark democratic senators
arc n,
Stanton of Cascade, Clark of Madi-
son. Meyers of Ravalli. Courtney Of
Silver Bow. Total, 4.
The republican senator's, all of whom,
it is now believed. will be anti-Clark,
are:
Meyers of Carbon. Phillips Of Choteau,
Geiser of Flathead, Anderson Of Meagh-
er, Worden of M%issoula. Kelley of Sweet
grass. Mitchell of Teton. Total. 9.
In the house out of the total Of forty
seven democrats. so called. there are five
independent democrats who will not vote
for Mr.. Clark undo any circumstances.
This cuts the Clark forces down to forty
two which, with the eleven votes con-
ceeded to him in the senate, give him a
total of tifty-three votes on joint ballot,
to elect. But it must be remembered hat
the fusion forces are made up of all
sorts of homogeneous elements. Among
the house members are a number of la
tor party men and populists. We do not
are under any obligation whatever to
support Mr.. Clark or any other particu-
Nor do we understand that they are I'M
der any obligation to support a candidate
Of N u no rtic,,la, =. n rtv Tho fI1SinniStS
were banded together. as we gather from
their platforms and speeches, for the sole
purpose of preventing the Standard Oil
octopus from fastening it's deadly
~tentacles on the body polite of this com
monwealth. Whenever and wherever
they discover one Of these tentacles
reaching out they are in honor bound
to act together in chopping it off. But
nothing was said about senatorships, and
the labor and populist members will no
doubt feel at perfect liberty to follow
their Individual inclinations when it
comes to voting for United States sena
tors. (,
In this view of the situation it will be
at once observed that an element of I'M
known predictions is likely to enter
into the senatorial situation next jan
larry which may change all plans and all
present calculations, and it is not be-
yond the strong probabilities of the case
that instead of two democratic senator's,
Dor party a or populist. Indeed, this
journal sees no valid reason why the la7
of the two senators, for without theil
votes the democrats could not possibly
have succeeded. -
If six or eight labor and populist mem.
bers shall decide to hold out they car
beyond doubt enforce due recognition o.
their claims.
The republican strength in the legisla
ture will be nine in the senate and TWEEN
ty-three in the house-a total of thirty
two. Add to these the five independ
ent democrats in the house and the fou
anti-Clark members of the senate and W
have a total anti-Clark strength Of forty
one-only seven short of a majority.
AS said before the situation nigh
easily develop some very interestin
phases.