The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-09

the only logical and sensible thing left
for them to do, and voted for him in q
body.
Had it not been for the hitter personal
| quarrel between Mr.. Marcus Daily and
Senator Clark a contest would never have
been thought Of No one of the other can
didates voted for felt himself aggrieved or
wronged. There was nothing in the way
OF politics involved. Only Mr.. Daily was
mad because his antagonist had been sue
cessful. To prevent him from taking or
keeping his seat he was apparently willing
tc spend large amount of money, and
do ibtiess has done SO. as he bluntly con-
fesses that he foOts the bills
So far as the State of Montana has been
heard from, there has been no complaint.
Mr.. Marcus DAILY was not satisfied with the
result. and it is under his auspices and
through his agencies that this miserable
mass of mendacity has been spread be-
fore the public for the past seven weeks.
pretty penny it must have cost him.
Mr. Fauikner's scathing denunciation of
Congressman Camphell's connection with
summing up. 1t could have been still
more severe, and still fully merited. Mr..
Campbell ran on the same ticket which
elected the Democratic legislators who
made Mr.. Clark Senator. II was the money
contributed by Mr.. Clark in organizing
the party and rescuing it from the per-
sonal control of Mr.. DAILY that made his
tCampbell's) election possible. Yet, while
the smiling beneficiary of Mr.. Clark's
iiberaiity and confidence, he was conspir-
ing with the miserable creature known as
Whiteside to implicate Clark's friends
with offers of bribery, first suggesting it
and then busy in attempts to carry IL out,
il not under Campbeil's legal direction
certainly with his knowledge and encour-
agement.
For the Senate ccmmitte to sustain in
any way such efforts to betray and degrade
a man of. honorable repute would be to
put premium on Matchmaking. Had Mr.
Clark been as easy a victim as Whiteside
and his gang hoped he might be. they
would doubtless have been as willing to
have taken his money as Days. and at
the last would probably have been as
ready to suppress their manufactured affi-
davits as to have submitted them, Il with
holding had been as profitable.
To imagine that such men were moved
by any desire to protect the honor OF
credit of the State is to admit utter i'm
becility
We confess to n strong sympathy for
the defendant in such an encounter with
thieves and blaekmailers. He has been
obliged to passiveIy meet their attacks
and dignity their accusations by efforts
to disprove them. He has told his story
candidlv and without acrimony. He has
submitted to most unpleasant scrutiny
of his business dealings and expenditures.
and to a man whose extensive enterprises
involve the payment of millions of dollars
in the course of a year, nothing could br
more distasteful. He seems to have held
nothing back in the way of Information
that could have decently been asked for
He might have said 81 have been elect
ed fairly and stand upon my unquestioned
rights. 1t is for you to prove that sim
motives or Illegally. and until that is
shown / have no statement to make-no
answer to give This. however. he did
not do, but met squareIy every suspicion
and explained fully every doubt
full circumstance He is entitled to
complete vindieation, and We cannot for |
a moment doubt that he will have it.