Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16
CLARK'S SPEECH
HE VIGOROUSLY SCORED DAILY
AND THE MEMORIALIsTS.
where WHITE CAR REIGNS.
Methods Used By Him To Dominate
and Control-Montana
Politics.

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Politics.
The following extracts from the speech
of Senator Clark refer particularly to
DAILY and the memorialists:
In 1888 l was nominated by acclama-
ton for delegate to congress-. which l
declined several times, and yielded fin
ally, having been unable to resist the
persistent and determined efforts of the
delegates in the convention to press the
nomination upon me. The territory was
democratic by several thousand votes at
that time and l had the most positive
assurances from Mr.. Daily and all of his
friends of their loyal support. On the
evening preceding the election he sent a
train load of men from Anaconda to
Butte, who bore torches in the procession
which preceded a grand rally. Later in
the evening rumors were current that
DAILY was disloyal. Three members of the
Butte committee hired an engine and
went to Anaconda, % miles distant, to
confer with him, and he assured them
that the rumOrS We're false and that he
would go to Butte in the morning, pull
off his coat and go to work in the inter-
ests of the party.
AT the opening of the polls his en-
ployes came flying down the hill with
democratic tickets in their hands, except
that the name of the republican nonii-
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liam system of ballot had not then been
established and there were shift bosses
at all the polls who knew the men and
made them show their tickets before de-
posting them. These gangs of men re-
peated several times and in the precinct
in which l live the vote was nearly
double that cast at preceding and sub
sequent elections and this was the case
at other precincts. This treacherous
work was lone everywhere IN the sew
eral counties where DAILY had men EN-
ployed and the result was my defeat by
several thousand majority and from this
staggering blow of treachery the party
did not recover for many years. There
was no provocation for this. There had
bad been no business difficulties and
never an unkird word had been spoken
between us. 1t was simply an envious
and diabolical desire on his part to for
ever destroy my political influence in the
territory.
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so far as the Whiteside inciden. AMI
the conspiring is concerned, l will sim
ply say that on the briefest examination
of all the testimony it must be appar-
ent to the mind of any reasonable per-
son with any considerable political ex-
perience that the charge against Mr..
Welcome is utterly absurd. Mr.. Well
come was educated in New England
and admitted there to practice at the
Doi' SA'A L " L 'NS"h AAS "Al0
grafton westward, stopping at st.
Paul, Minnesota, where he practiced
his profession. and landed in Montana.
ten or twelve years ago He is an emf
nent lawyer and has had a wide po-
litical experience among the cleverest
politicians of the county He is a man
of mature years and judgment. He was
several times warned against the
treacherouS character of Whiteside and
his connection with the DAILY people. 1t
- 49, -~--;I1o that - ,,o1 -f sc ti1s
and experience and sagacity could fall
into such a trap. or that he would, if he
were SO disposed, attempt to bride two
men in the presence of each other, when
he, knowing the character of at least one
of them. might expect to be betrayed.
There is not a man living who knows
John b. Welcome who would for one in
slant believe UGH a story. The whole
scheme is in accord with the tactics of
the prosecutors in this case, as we are
prepared to prove but were not allowed
to do so by the committee. We were pre-
pared to prove by George McGrath, who
was associated with the Daily faction in
1898, that a similar conspiracy was at
tempted at that time.
MI President. | have only one more
reference to make to the report and
hat is the remarkable statement relat-
ing to the criticism of the senator's
wherein is the following clause: Some
members of the committee, however, dc
not join in the criticism OF Mr.. camp
bell and Mr.. DAILY
Il cOnstrue this to mean. therefore,
that all of the conduct of these men
is approved by at least two members
of the committee l do not desire to
draw any conclusions, but I am con
strained to call the attention of the
senate to the character of Mr.. Camp
bell as shown by the record and the
evidence. He first appeared as a friend
of the cause of cooperation in the in
terest of good government in Montana
where, at a conference. he feigned
sleep in order to obtain information
which he might use to betray his
friends. Not h knowing his true
character, he received the support of
myself and all of my friends which in
sured his nomination and election. I'M
mediately thereafter he threw off the
mask and went to work to encompass
my defeat, having been employed, as he
stated, as counsel for a mining company
belonging to the Anacon1~ company at
a salary of So, 900 per annum. ostensibly
as a blind, as he could not remember on
the witness stand the name of the COM
pany for which he pretended to act. He
labored necessarily for limos a year in
procuring the perjured testimony. as
was fully disclosed by the 10 pages Of
affidavit which he procured from Ben
Hill, who refused to testify on the stand
and afterwards did testify that Camp
hell. The evidence shows that he hat