Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-30
Mr.. JOHN GlNX
TAKES THE STAND.

1A00O HID OxANUs
Special Correspondence to the Inter
Mountain.
Washington, March 25.-As I went
down town to get my breakfast this
morning the barkeeper handed me the
following summons:
Mr.. John Ginx:
Secretary Helena. Mont, Board Of
Trade. Hancock's Saloon. Wash
ington, ID. c.
Illustrious Sir:-As the entire aggrega-
ton of natural born falsifiers and men,
bers of the Montana H. II. Exaggeration
society seems to have left town you are
hereby notified to appear before this
committee for private and non-partisan
examination by it's members and herein
fail not or we will declare you entitled
to the seat instead of Hon. w. A. Clark.
(Signed)
SENATE ELECTIONS COMMITTEE,
Per SIMPSON, Secretary.
On receipt of the above I hastily drank
m breakfast with a few drops of Angos-
tura added and proceeded to the capitol
n to the committee room where the
chairman with a low bow of recognition
thus addressed me after I had aken the
oath:
NJ Ginx. this committee has exam
ined 102 witnesses and we have reason
to believe that considerably over 100 of
them AVE been lying to us. We know
you are a man to be trusted everywhere
except in a bar room and that having
been a member of the Helena Board of
Trade. you probably tell the truth, at
lea st when falling IN Vyn,,r c1oon Wa
have the more confidence in you having
just learned that you landed in Montana
from Pike county, Mo-, which has given
to this nation n to the noble profession
of law not only yourself but the Hon.
VIM. Clancy of Butte. We propose to
ask you a few questions or you can tell
what you know in narrative form like
Mr.. Nolan did in transcribing the testi-
mony before the Helena grand jury to
suit his own exuberant and innocent
fancy" III
II prefer the narrative FORM" I replied
with great Difference, feeling in my hip
pocket to find out whether I had brought
a flask with me. I had. II want this
committee to understand" I said, ''that
I AVE no favorites to play in giving my
testimony, but I want to say that we,
LAC PCOPAC VI MOnIdIld, SEE uOI1111S
wrong in anything that has happened
in the state capital. We are proud of
our Daly-Clark feud; it is the largest
feud in the United States: it is the only
one that can be smelled afar OF and that
has been known to make even the ma
| tional congress hold its nose. It held
it during the entire day that Campbell
was on the stand. It is h oldest .feud
g. 49, .>-kA-,>- IT, H. --.Y- - -
no pride Of ancestry, but unlike that
democratic beast. it has strong hopes OF
posterity. It is h only feud in this
country hat has been carried on entirely
by h mouth Nobody knows how II
started,-it was like Topsy, it just
"growed." When my friend Daily beat
my friend Clark for congress in 1888, Il
took the former nearly five years to find
out why he did 1t. He did not know how
much he hated Clark until the polls
closed and h boys had all obeyed in.
structions; but of course after that thu
feud had to be fed n watered and KEEP,
alive and a aso for it's existence had
to be found. 1t grew SO that at asst II
required 100 men to bring it to Washing
ton and place it On exhibition and vast
the dirty linen in which it was packed
up 1uGIc WISH I TOOIu enough III MOI
tana for two general managers of tn,
public franchise and the feud was tn
natural result, but nobody remember,
exactly when it was born or who wa,
suspected of its parentage. Yet it grew
SO rapidly and got so big that Mr.. Dial,
swore it cost him $25, 900 for its first ap
pearance in Washington. to say nothing
of Edmunds' fee of $4,000 0 and Hartman
liberal compensation Of 500 in cash an,
a gold brick. It is a feud that has KEEP
two mel busy all their lives and will
keep their children and friends busy 70
centuries to come. 1t is a bitter, cold
blooded. remorseless feud. 1t is a feu,
to the death. 1t has driven all the Bible
out of Montana. It is used to scar
|. babies with and spoil mems hopes O
, happiness and prospects of salvation. !
has caused more trouble and loss thar al
: the fires n panics and blizzards tina
ever visited Montana. It has cost mil
lions of dollars in cash, has ruined tn
regulations Of hundreds of men an
= created more ill-feeling than all the scan
D dial and gossip ever turned loose. It /
j. a feud that is at once spectacular iri
descent. It has no equal in Kentuck
: or in Hades. We need his feud in GU
I business in Montana. 1t has given tn
republicans all the fun they have had fo
e twenty years and Nolan and Toole an
Stiff Inc Collins and Smith and all tn
powers that be in Montana rave been 1t
wet nurses. I beg of this committee t
go to any extreme but do not deprive u
Of our unprecedented feud."
M Ginx you may tell what you knov
about Ben HILL" said MI. Caffrey. NV
a find nothing about him in any Of tn
encyclopaedia" E,
: II know very little" I replied. eth
q day I was introduced to him he had ju.
played an engagement to go carriage ri6
inn with ono ~ thu noillionolnoa AZ II