Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-30
TWO SENATORS
SAW THROUGH
PETTUS AND HARRIS COMMENT
ON THE METHODS OF THE
PROSECUTION.
CAMPBELL'S BUSINESS OF
BUYING NEWSPAPERS.
And Hiring Detectives With Days
Money-Evident Bias of Nolan
Report in Full.

Harris two members of the
on privileges and elections. in the Clark
case are here published in full:
We agreed and still agree to the reso-
luton reported by the committee through
it's chairman. That resolution was
adopted by the committee itself. But the
report is merely the writing of the chair
man with the aid of one other m Of
the committee, and therefore can not be
considered as the words of the commit
tee.
1t is true that we saw and read that
report, bv the grace of the chairman, n
dissented from many parts thereof. n
gave the chairman notice of such dissent,
when the chairman informed us that we
were not bound by the wording of the re-
port.
1t was our misfortune not to agree with
a majority of the committee in the general
conduct Of the investigation of this case.
We believed that in this important in
quiry the committee was bound by. and
ought to act on, the ordinary rules OF
evidence.
And in this contention we merely fol-
lowed another member of the committee
who is one of our great lawyers and who
is fresh from a long service as a nist
prius judge under federal authority. That
great lawyer, in gentle but forceful Ian
guage, admonished us of the great danger
VI ulSIosdIulIlS the common rules OIL EVIL.
dence established by great judges through
the centuries and known to all lawyers.
Blu it was said the committee was not a
court and had a right to receive hear
say evidence in order to get on the track
of better evidence. M we did receive it
constantly, and in great volumes.
We tried merely to discharge our duties
as members of this committee, and as
judges in this important cause. The
chairman. however. left the committe lit
tie to do. The committee made an order
at the beginning appointing the chairman
and another member to determine what
witnesses should be summoned, and the
two did determine what witnesses should
be summoned, and the two did determine
that matter at first: but the chairman
kindly relieved the other members of that
labor. and determined that matter for
the committee.
This report of the chairman declares
that. as to many matters stated separate
~, some members of the committee think
Or believe one way and some think or be-
lieve another. So we preferred to state
our Individual findings for ourselves.
1T is our opinion from the evidence that
the friends of Senator Clark illegally and
improperly used large mounts of money
and thereby caused the election, and that
this election is not valid, but under the
law of the land is void, and therefore we
wv w w llIC
chairman.
We consider it our duty to call atten-
ton to this general features of this case.
There were in Montana two factions in
the democratic party. Marcus DAILY was
considered the head of one faction and
w. A. Clark was considered the head Of
the other.
In the summer of 1898 there was a meet
ing of CLARK men," as they We're called,
to consider political matters. concerning
the general election to be held in Novem-
Der of that year.
Mr.. A. j. Campbell was invited and at
tended that meeting, which was held pri-
vately. It was agreed at that meeting to
try to elect a legislature of democrats Of
their own faction of the party, or not of
the DAILY faction. And w. A. Clark
agreed to pay the expenses. And large
sums of money We're sent out, by the
three men who acted as a committee, to
the various counties. A democratic con-
vention was held in September. And at
that convention A. j. Campbell was
nominated for congress-, with the same
aid: and in November. 1898, he was elect
ed to congress with the same aid. So, to
the extent named. Mr.. Campbell got the
benefit of that private meeting of which
he was a member, and the benefit of the
money sent out by the committee to the
executive committees in various counties.
Mr.. Campbell was a well-known oppo-
nent of the DAILY faction prior to and in
1898.
The witness Whiteside had been en-
ployed by one of Marcus Days cor
poratiOns as a contractor to build a large
house prior to 1898. A. J. Campbell was
employed. for the first time, in the sum-
mer of 1898, to do one piece of work as a
lawyer for one of Days corporations.
The evidence tends to show tina White
side was unfriendly to w. A. Clark, and
that he made a threat to explode a
bomb if Clark became a candidate for
the senate; and that about the same day
Marcus DAILY, in New York, made a
threat "to run w. A. Clark and his fam
lily out of the state of Montana"
On or about the 18th day of December,
1898, A. J. Campbell and Whiteside met.
Whiteside called on Mr. Campbell in his
Office to obtain the advice of Mr.. Camp
bell, and informed Mr.. Campbell of his
plan to act with Mr.. Clark's friends and
secure Mr.. Clark's confidence, and then
betray and destroy him. Mr.. Campbell
had no difficulty in advising Whiteside as
to how he could best betray and destroy
his friend. Mr.. Clark. hat interview was
private. and all we know of 1t is what the
parties have consented to give us; but we
learn of them that Mr.. Campbell gave to
Whiteside advice full of grim, blunt Wis
dom.
After Mr. Campbell had heard the plan
to entrap and betray his friend, he told
Whiteside. in substance. do not rely on
you own evidence to prove the charges"
Thus Campbell and Whiteside became
united in a common cause, in December.
1898. And from that time Whiteside had
the benefit of CampbelIs advice And
Whiteside. If you credit his account OF
himself. acted well and naturally the
part of SOY and traitor, and did explode
a bomb"
After the legislature adjourned, Mr..
Campbell. with Marcus Days money.
went into the business of buying newspa-