The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-10
he GOT EVEN.
Man Who Made the $4,000
Expose in Montana.

Washington, Feb. 10.-State Senator
Tierney of Montana continued his tes-
timony in the Clark case before the
senate committee on elections today. He
said he had never been asked to vote
for Mr.. Clark for the United States SEN
ate and had therefore never been offer
ed any consideration for his vote for
that gentleman.
He gave details of the organization of
the Townsend bank in which he had
stock and explained where he obtained
the money for it.
Mr. Tierney said that the s., 800 which
he had put into the organization of the
new bank at Townsend had been kept
in the safe of Darsey & Co.. where it
had been put in preference to putting
it into the bank of Hyatt & Delantey,
the only bank then existing at Town
snd- OF the $500 drawn out in this
transaction not to exceed 81, 600 had
been entered upon the books of the
firm. He had taken it out because it
was his. Very often however, these de-
posits were put into the general cash
fund of the firm. In response to a queS-
tiOn from Senator Chandler the witness
said that not knowing that aspersions
were to be cast upon his character be-
cause of his vote for Mr.. Clark he had
brought no paper of any kind with him
to show whence the $500 used in or
ganizing the Townsend bank had come.
The questioning brought out the fact
that both Elverson and Representative
Shovelin who together with Mr. Tier
ney constituted the whole legislative
delegation from Broadwater county
were stockholders in the new Townsend
bank.
OF the entire s25, 900 capital, Mr. Tier
ney testified that himself and relatives
and business associates had contributed
about $4,000, Messrs. Eversoll and
Shovelin each having only $1,000 The
organization had been canvassed. two
years previous to the time of its actual
organization but the idea had not been
put into execution because of the diff
Guilty of getting the money together.
Some of the money put in by his rela-
tives had been brought from the east.
All the members of the legislature who
were in the bank in the end voted for
Mr.. Clark for the senate.
William Berne, a ranchman of Col
umbia Falls, who said he had formerly
worked in one of Mr.. Days mines at
Butte, testified to being sent by men
connected with Mr.. Daily to Flat Head
| county during the legislative election of
! 1898 to assist Mr.. Whiteside in his race
| for the state senate On the train out
I from Columbia Falls he said he had a
| talk with Whiteside and the latter told
| him that Senator Clark had sent money
! into the country to be used against him
| adding, that he would get even with
! Clark if it ever came his way for buck
| ing him in his election
Mr.. Whiteside had said he would "job
! Again in Helena after the legislature
met, he asked Whiteside for some mon
| ey.
Mr.. Whiteside replied" said the wit
ness, that he had only 81, though a
| few weeks before he had had $50 900 in
/ his pockets but that as it had not been
his he turned it over to the state. He
said he had been offered $100, 900 to
! leave the town. I told him. continued
! the witness that he was a - fool for
not keeping the money but he replied
! that he could make more out of the
| other side-out of Daly-by turning the
| money over.''
On cross examination the witness
| said he had thought that Whiteside had
| meant that he could not only get the
| 100000 for leaving. but he could also
| keep the $50, 900. He added that Mr.
| Whiteside had loaned him $5 of the 81
! he had on hand that he had paid the
! amount back.
Adjourned until Monday.