The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-10-12
BARREL IS OPEN.
Horde Of Grafters Prepares For
Action.
ALL AFTER BIG BILLS.
Sum Already Spent in Cause of Vindica.
ton Amounts to Cool Million and
Work Is Only Just Begun.

| Butte, Oct. These are busy days
for the clerks in the auditing department
of w. A. Clark's political bureau. They
are working overtime in their efforts to
appease the appetite of the horde of
grafters and leg-pullers who are in this
campaign for the purpose of separating
the magnate from some of his money.
A politician who stands close to Clark
estimates that the campaign of vindica-
ton the millionaire is making will cost
him in the neighborhood of 100000.
Il happen to know" said he, that
100000 has been set aside for the pur-
pose of carrying the state and $4,000
has been appropriated for good cheer in
Helena next winter.
1.-The newspaper expenditures will in
the aggregate amount to very tidy
sum. The Miner is to be equipped with
a $4,000 plant, including color per-
fecting press, and is to be housed in
$4,000 building. The purchase price of
the Great Falls Tribune was $4,000.
Machinery costing $4,000 has since been
installed in the Office of the Great Falls
organ. Ten country newspapers have
been purchased at cost of $4,000.
Newspaper subsidies have eaten up an
additional $4,000, and the gold brick
engraving plant in Butte represents
loss Of $4,000.
1.-The music that makes light the
hearts of those who are paid to trudge
about after Clark's carriage comes high.
The members of the B. & M. band are
paid SO per day. There are twenty five
members in the band. This means $3.50
a day, and when the campaign is at an
end the band will have been in the
Clark service fully 100 days.
1.-The Charlie Clark fife and drum
corps, new organization, is to receive
$6 per day per man. The fife and drum
corps consists of twenty members
CLARK is supposed to pay for the men
in Heinzes employ who from time to
time are given credit for shift when
they turn out to help swell demonstra-
tion in his honor or to make a crowd at
a fusion meeting. The Heinze employees
and those employed in the Clark mines
and reduction works number about
1900 During the campaign there will
be fully twenty days when their services
as rooters will be necessary, and this
will cost Clark fully 100000.
1.-The services of John r. Sovereign,
who is said to have been engaged by
Clark, will cost $1OOOO and there are
200 paid Clark workers in the state who
receive 500 each per month and lib
eral expense allowance.
"Then there are the Clark populists.
They are not strong numerically, but
they can beat diver for pearls at hold
ing their breath"
The plentiful application of Clark
money in some instances is acting as
boomerang. This phase of discomfort
dates back to the state convention in
Helena. One we'll known South Butte
politician consented to WELD his influ-
ence at the convention as delegate in
consideration of $500. He did his work
and did it we'll and the Clark people
were satisfied with their purchase.
The trouble comes from the delegates
who were less literally treated. A vote
is vote in a state convention and it is
hard to convince the small caliber politi-
clan that he should not be paid as much
for his support as some other man.
The story has leaked out that the pol
itician in question was paid $500, and
now the men who received less amount
are besieging the Clark managers with
questions which are not easy to answer.
They declare that they have something
coming" and want it.
Although most of the riff raft of Butte
has been enlisted for the Clark cause,
some few have been disappointed in
their efforts to extract cash from the
Clark barrel, and these are open in their
denunciations of the discredited senator
and his sons. Some of the regular
hangers on who have lost what meager
influence they may have possessed are
declaring that they were promised cam
paign employment by the Clarks and
that now that the time for action is here
they are told that a change of plans has
made it impossible to give them work.
These are the men who are not worth
the price. The Clarks have money to
spend-they are spending it-but the
man who cannot deliver dollars worth
of goods need not expect the dollar
Montana Record.