, 1900-02-10
CLARK AND DAILY
SECRET OF THE EFFORT TO UN-
SEAT THE SENATOR FROM
MONTANA.
Daily Leads the Fight-Another
Lively Battle in the Bitter War
Between the Millionaires-Story
of the Rivalry Which is Causing
So Much Comment.

So Much Comment.
Back of the attempt to unseat United
States Senator Clark of Montana OF
the charge of having bought a member
ship in the senate by bribing Montana
legislators, is a story Of political and
business rivalry that is without paral-
lei in the history of the world. The
investigation now going on at Wash
ington, by which it is sought to estab-
lish Senator Clark's guilt or Innocence,
is in reality a fight to the death be-
tween Clark and Marcus Daly-scratch
away the veneer from any of the men
who oppose the seating of Clark and
you will find a stanch adherent of Mr..
DAILY; use the same process on those
who support Clark's claims to recog-
milton as a senator and you will find
men who look upon Marcus DAILY as
the very incarnation of evil. 1t is only
a few years ago that William A. Clark
and Marcus DAILY were warm personal
friends. Then they were poor, and
working hard to win fortune. Both
are now immensely rich, but with the
coming Of wealth their friendships
were severed and they became bitter
enemies-and thereby hangs a tale.
William A. Clark was a country law
yer and school teacher in Missouri. He
took Horace Greeley's advice and went
west, locating first at Virginia City and
later at Helena, in both Of which towns
he opened modest stores and sold salt
Goldfish and similar supplies to the
miners. He was thrifty, and made
some money. With this capital he
started small banks In Butte and Deer
Lodge. He was shrewd; some say not
overscrupulous. At any rate, he &C
Quired title to various mining proper
ties, many Of which turned out to be
valuable. and quickly began to accumu-
late a fortune. AS his riches increased,
Clark rounded out his education, stud
led French and German. Travelled ex-
tensiyely, and read everything he could
get his hands on. During all this time
William A. Clark had no closer chum
than Marcus DAILY. In 1880 Daily had
won some fame as q self-taught min
ing expert. He was an Irish-born lad,
who had zone to New York, where he
had worked as a boy in a bank. Later
he hustled freight OF the levee in New
Orleans, and then drifted out to Mon
tana with Just pluck and Drawn for his
capital. He was engaged to operate the
Alice mine. owned by the Walker
brothers, a valuable, property, but one
which had been used solely as a specu-
latiyez medium. DAILY made it a great
dividend payer. Later he was put in
charge of the Anaconda by Haggin &
Hurst, and all over the world it is now
known as the most profitable copper
producer yet developed.
DAILY and Clark both secured i'm
mense fortunes. Both Of them have
all the money, and more, than any man
can possibly use. OF the two Clark is
probably the richer. His income is es-
timated at So. 900 a day, or $13, O00, 900
q year. all made out of mining ventures.
What he has laid away nobody seems
to know. but men who stand close to
his assert that William A. Clark Is
the richest individual in America. Rich
men must have their hobbies. With
Clark 1t is politics. He doesn't care
anything for the United States senator
ship 30 far as power or prestige is con-
cerned. He simply made up his mind
to get it. because he had an ambition
to be a member OF the most dignihed
and important legislative body in this
country, and get it he did. Marcus Da-
ly's hobby is race horses and palatial
ranches. DAILY is a hard-headed, keen
witted Irishman, who will not throw
his money away willfully, but he spends
1t like a prince on the maintenance OF
his great stables. At his Bitter Root
ranch he has the biuest-blooded har-
ness and thoroughbred horses to be
found in the world and they are quar-
tered in stables that are finer than some
Of the houses rich men live in. Clark
doesn't care anything for horses, at
least not in the way DAILY does; and the
latter doesn't care anything about poll
tics. save when the game affords him
a chance to get even with an opponent.
One would think that two men of such
widely differing tastes, and who had al
ways been good friends, could get
along without seeking one another's
blood. but they can't.
Just when the trouble between Clark
and DAILY began Is matter Of tradition.
Nobody SEEM to know definitely. One
report circulated In Montana has 1t that
Clark once wrote a letter derogatory
to DAILY and sent 1t to Walker brothers,
whose mine DAILY was developing. The
Walkers, having become millionaires
through Days management, naturally
had full confidence In him and they
proved 1t by sending Clark's letter to
him. Another story is that Clark an
ticipated DAILY In the purchase of a
water right which raj OF the market
for $4,000. DAILY found later that he
had to have the water in the running
of the Anaconda smelter and Clark
held him up for 500. 900 before he
,,ould uott Clork o0orod In nv~n1ana-