The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-06-26
From the Anaconda Standard :

From the Anaconda Standard:
All the claiming" in the world will
not make the Clark boilers regular. All
the buster of some of the braggarts to
whom Mr.. Clark commits the manage
ment of his latest raid, changes not a
whit the facts in the case Men like Mr..
Corbett and Mr.. Cooper, who have sense,
did not control in the conduct of his
side before the committee. If at any
point in Mr.. Clark's presentation of his
case there was merit, that was all thrown
away by the canal driver tactics of the
Clark heelers who wanted to fight and
who tried to have a loud mouth make up
for lack of tact and clever management.
That is the truth in regard to this Clark
business was bad generalship-
exercised as to make bad cause 50
much the worse.
Meanwhile, we repeat, the Clark clique
is merely a boiling contingent, and it re-
mains for the authorities at Kansas City
to say whether it had ground for boiling.
The regular state committee was organ
lied under ample precedents and in
,,,s% .nh
in national and state committees. Chair
man Cockrill, fair minded Imam, was
calm in the presence of all the uproar
the Clark crowd tried to raise. He sus-
tanned his course by referring to many
prccedents; he took prudent counsel; he
declared his willingness to accept in all
c;ndor Il revision of his work if, when a
preliminary committee had been con-
structed, revision was found to be fair
and just. 1t was possible for the Clark
people to put the chairman's work to a
square test right on the spot. But the
Clark plan was to bolt and bolt quick,
the result being that what these Clark
men claim as committee majority is
something made up by methods that
never were recognized in any national,
state or county organization.
That the Clark boilers will fail utterly
of recognition at Kansas City on what
they allcge to be the merits of their case,
the Standard hasn't doubt in the
world; and the regular democratic dele
CATION is prepared to meet Mr.. Clark at
the convention. The fact will prove to
be that he conld not get the control of
the state central committee but that he
would have controlled it if he could have
bought it. lie couldn't do that.
For fact, it is the Standards belief
and it may as well 60 into type that if
by some remarkable accident w. A.
Clark happened for once to get quite the
better of it in a political controversial
that happened to be his experience, still
he'd lose. Spite of some of the men
associated with him, about whom the
Standard would not indulge in discour-
teous remark, Mr.. Clark could be relied
on to get the worst of it. Here is man
who has made himself notorious over the
United States by reason of desire
which has come to be popularity regarded
as a craze-to get into the United States
He has been at it, in season and
out of season, just about dozen years.
He has asserted hundred times he
has sworn that he is so eminently Mon
tana's popular idol that democrats and
actually sink political pref
erences in their ardent wish to make
him senator. The total voting constitu-
cncy? Why, in all Montana it isn't,
within ten thousand, as large as the vot-
ing constituency in the single little
Michigan county of Wayne, which has
the city of Detroit for its seat.
That's the fact. Strange passing
strange it is. You never heard or read
of the like of it; yet it is the fact. 1t is
the most glaring and, by millions, the
highest priced illustration of the failure
OF crooked political methods of which
you will find any record. Mr.. Clark's
whine always is that "Daly did it," The
fact is that, in the phrase of the street.
Mr. Clark ought to go and get political
fighting reputation for himself before he
talks any more about any title to meet
MIR. DAILY in the political ring.