The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-09-28
An Interview With w. A. Clark,

An Interview With w. A. Clark.
From the Anaconda Standard.
Early last night-it was at 745 o'clock
the editor of the Standard received
telegram relating to certain business
matters not of public concern, to which
was appended the sentences: Glad to
/ say Mr.. DAILY continually improving and
getting along nicely This message was
followed, twenty minutes later, by what
news paper men call query" This
came from the Standards regular New
York city news agency. and it read:
widespread Indignation expressed over
Clarks horrible talk here about DAILY in
an interview in which Clark says DAILY
dying, Do you want summary" The
full text of the interview, which appeared
in the New York Herald, last Sunday.
was ordered wired. 1t reached the
Standard Office at l o'clock this morn
ing. 1t is printed herewith.
The recent false reports relating to
Mr. DAILY, got into brisk circulation di-
rectly after w. A. Clark's return from
Europe. Mr.. Daily and his family, when
in New York, have their home at the Ho
tel Netherland 1t is exclusively family
hotel. For the first time in his life, upon
his return from France, w. A. Clark took
rooms at the Netherland. That is one
of those little things a man like Clark
will do. Directly thereafter the bulle-
tins announcing Mr.. DAILY alleged death
began to reach Montana. They were
made to do diligent service, however
unavailing, during Mr.. Clark's conven-
ton of last week.
The New York Herald is one of the
many great newspapers in this country
that told the truth about w. A. Clark
while, in Washington, he was on trial for
bribery. Most men, faring as Clark Jared
in the Herald, would have felt prompted
to throw out of the room reporter for
that newspaper, the instant he appeared.
Not SO w. A. Clark. He gave an i, ter
view, and manifestly, the New York
Herald let it's hundreds of thousands Of
readers see w. A. Clark in new light,
in the most vulgar and indecent exposi
tion-Clark himself insisting that even
as he talked Mr.. DAILY was dying-that
ever found it's way from the lips of any
man who might be supposed to know the
amenities or, more precisely, the common
decencies.
Knowing well the spirit Of the people
of Montana, the Standard cannot see
that, in dealing with this amazing ex
hibition on w. A. Clarks part, it has
other function than, without syllable
of comment, to submit, in Montana,
word for word, the interview wired last
night by it's correspondent in New York.
The following words in capitals, are the
Herald's suggestive headlines. The
balance is the text of w. A. Clark's talk:
CLARK ATTACKS HIS
STRICKEN ENEMY.
"MONTANA SENATOR DECLARES
THAT MARCUS DAILY HAS BEEN
DISLOYAL TO THE DEMO-
CRATIC PARTY AND HAS
FOLLOWED HIM FOR
YEARS WITH UNRE-
LENTING MALICE.
"BELIEVES HIS INFLUENCE IN
STATE HAS BEEN DESTROYED.
LOOKS UPON HIS ENDORSEMENT
BY THE DEMOCRATIC STATE
CONVENTION AS A PERSONAL
VINDICATION AND A RE-
BUKE TO THE SENATE
COMMITTEE ON PRIV
LEGES AND ELEC-
TIONS.
I'm the unsolicited Endorsement of him
, given by the democratic state convention
in Montana on Friday, Senator w. A.
Clark sees a vindication which he values
more highly than he does any of his po-
litical triumphs. The regard of his
friends he says, is much dearer to him
:, than the good opinion of an unthinking
public that is mostly influenced by false
reports. Democratic success in Montana,
he says, is assured. just home from
! Europe, Senator Clark is as full of fight
as he has ever been. In an interview
with a Herald reporter last evening he
:. expressed his gratitude to his friends
a and at the same time flung bitter def
!, ance at his ancient enemy.
!, "'Montana,' said Senator Clark,
!. though possessed of only three electoral
votes, is now engaged in as pretty po-
litical contest as can be found in the
t country. The democratic state conven-
J. ton has just adjourned. after naming a
s particularly strong ticket. Since my re-
Q turn from Europe week ago l have
g read the dispatches from Montana in the
J. Herald and can say that they have been
e the only correct ones that have been
@ published in New York.