Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-26
FOR COOS SAKE, RESIGN!

Senate Clark awaits the final action Of
the senate or tenders his resignation in
the meantime.
This paper has. in fact, offered no ad-
vice on the matter, though discussing at
some length the political and legal as
poets of the situation should either course
be pursued.
But in the interests of a long-suffering
on our marrow bones-as soon as a soft
piece of ground a be found upon which
to kneel with comfort-and literally beg
the Junior senator from Montana to
throw up the sponge and stand not upon
the order of it's throwing!
We are led to thus implore the seat of
roubl by the critical condition of the
political Napoleon now in charge of the
editorial page of the Anaconda Standard.
Every day the Websterian department
of that ~newspaper boils over with reasons
why Mr.. Clark should resign in order
to protect himself from the final action
of the senate!
If there is anything which the Stand
ard desires to do with greater zeal than
anything else. it is to protect Mr.. Clark
from the final action ofthe senate!
In fact it's anxiety to nave Mr., Clark
resign before the senate can get action
on the resolution of the committee, has
reached such a high state of p~ulsation as
to portend a collapse, unless Mr.. Clark
sees fit to follow it's advice. y al
Governor Smith an opportunity to ap,
point the editor of the Standard to the
vacancy, and thus again establish before
the world the truth of the hypothesis
that virtue is it's own reward"
It is strange that Mr.. Clark cannot
see this.
Has not Mr.. Durston spent five months
of his valuable time watching that SEN
atorial seat from a convenient gallery,
while Mr.. Clark was attending the ses-
sions of the senate committee?
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east for nearly three months to help
him watch it?
What recompense will these distin-
guished gentlemen receive for the wear
n tear on their pantalettes. sitting
around in the galleries day after day
watching hat seat, unless Mr.. Clark re-
signs?
Besides, Mr.. Clark should not feel hard
n clammy toward the editor of the
Standard.
He wasn't on the stand any more than
Governor smith was. s.
Neither of them testified before the
committee to the extent Of a single
octave.
They simply watched that senatorial
seat between meals. taking turns when
the gong pealed for dinner.
The Inter Mountain has no hesitancy
in saying that Mr.. Durston has a right
to watch that seat and get the cushion
firmly fixed in his mind, inasmuch az he
expects to have his mind firmly fixed on
the cushion after awhile-just as soon as
Mr.. Clark resigns! ri. =.
History shows that every man who has
been sent to the senate had his eye on q
senatorial seat in the first place. n
There is nothing new or uncanny In
the hard work which Mr.. Durston has
been doing in the past five months. sit
ting in the gallery day after day watch
ing that senatorial seat.
Hundreds of men are said to have had
their eye on a senatorial seat for years
before they finally secured it. while Mr..
Durston only spent five months working
at the business. with Governor Smith
doing the of shift for three months dur
ing that time.
No doubt, MI. Durston accomplished
as much with his eye riveted on that seat
ten hours a day. as some men could do
in double that time.
Through thought force It seems hat
he has induced that seat to spill Mr.. W.
A. Clark out, to make room for . man
who is better equipped to sit under the
elysian dome with the thunderbolts Of
Jove rolling beneath his feet!
All that is now necessary for the dili-
gence of Mr.. Durston to reap its reward
: is for Mr.. Clark to resign, and give hia