The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-11

OlCalS ndu advanced clark TO "a point
| where he controlled as many IL not more
men. He had become vastly wealthy.
His investments in every section of Mon
tana, as In many sections of the Untted
States, had proved to be wonders in luck,
| as they were wonders in shrewd manage
| ment. He owned not only copper mines.
but lumber mills and the forests from
| which they were fed, coal fields, stock
| ranges banks, city properties, SmelterS-
more interests, indeed. in his own name
| than DAILY controlled on behalf OF him
| self and his syndicate. His income was
| estimated at million per month"; he HIM
! self claimed not to know how much 1t
was. His turn had come to be Indifferent
to DAILY. to override him, to indulge In
some OF the vengeance that had been
| Days for ten years or more.
So far from compromising upon the sem
! atorShip, he accepted the cause Of DAILY 3
chief competitor, cast his nets of gold
| and copper into the pools whence votes
| are drawn, and buried Daily and his Ana
-conda under a level Of votes that seemed
| not only to submerge his enemy, but to
place Clark himself in inevitable line for
! the honors from which DAILY had so long
| sought to restrain him.
The Montana capital fight of 1884, as a
consequence, is one of the black pages or
| Northwestern history. 1t narrowed to
battle between these two men of means
! 81 mere personal conflict wherein epllem-
| eral considerations utterly obscured the
| question at stake. Dali was def q ed, an |
| Clark became a hero In the eyes or the
| people of Helena When Helena celebfat-
! ed her victory Clark was the guest of
| honor; as he stepped from his special
| train. carriage magEfficently decorated
| with flowers, flags and ribbons, was In
| waiting; the horses were removed ana
| prominent citizens drew him to the place
IL, kInaVa kI.A nj H.
zens have been for Clark first, last ana
all the time When the passions or the
| hour subsidized, and the political horizon
/ was inspected, it was found that the habit
| of solving state issues by money, OIL meas
| uring the concerns of the pubic by their
| relation TO the two wealthiest men IN the
| community, had been ineradicably las en-
| ed upon the people.
For a brief period after 1894 there was
| some reason to think that the feud had
abated Clark. satisfied apparently with
| his conquest, Withdrew from poltticat ac-
tfvity and was reported to have decldreo
| his intention not to seek the senatorsilip
| again In 1896, at the presidential cleo
| lions DAILY and Clark were botE loyat
to the silver and Democratic cause. f5ue
| In $685. when state politics were again dt
| the front. the old storm broke loose, more
| aggravated than ever. The use OF money
| was more unscrupulous, the machfnai9ns
of the politicians were more tar-feachls'
I the consequences extending beyond the
state and drawing the scandalized eye or
| the entire United States.
Clark. against his will. was persuaded
again to stand for the senate. DAILY. I'M
| affected by the defeat of 1884. and with
| the same vindietiveness, put himself
| against CIarIS's election. The legtsiatu
| was banded back and forth between the
two mems money. Party principle and
local necessities were smothered IN the
purchase funds of these personal ac'
counts And when the voting came IN
| the halls of the state capitol, there was
money waiting for him who chose to take
| it. and votes ready to be exchanged for
the highest bidder. The bribery and COT
| ruption of the capitol contest OF 1884 was
| miniature In comparison. Montana had
| gone into the money-ln-polit1cs business
She had been stepped to the soul with It,
t until her representatives seemed ulldpie
| to move under any other guidance.
Clark was elected. The public Of the
| country has been told how, In the SILT
tiugs and hearings of the committee on
privileges and elections Of the United
States senate.
+ There the matter should have ended, as
| the business quarrel of twenty years pre-
ceding should have ended. But it did not.
The Irish tenaeity of DAILY never releases
its hold So long as he and Clark are
mon the same earth, Clark Will have to
I reckon with DAILY.
AZ don't like him. nohow," DAILY is
/ quoted as saying ssfIe' amt right-ho
amt right, nohow.'
with the contest settled In Montana,
DAILY simply transferred it TO a higher
| court-extended his cause beyond h1a
own state, as he originally extended IT
| beyond his own sphere. In Montana the
! agents Of Daily prosecuted and succeeded
| in disbarring the lawyer whom they liked
| upon as the representative of Clark IN
the monetary dealings OF the campaigns
| Tohn B. Welcome. In the senate of tho
United States. the same friends Of Daily
who openly charged Clark with bribery
| and who were chiefly instrumental in tho
conviction of Welcome, have adduced
the same testimony in order to hold
| Clark from his honors.
It is even said that Daily, realizing
Clark's new and vast wealth, much OF
which consisted in copper interests
! CLARK controls one-fifth of the copper
output of the world, fused his own in
terests with the capital Of the Standard
OIL company, forming the big copper
trust Of which much talk was made In
the summer of 1853. He did this that he
might avail himself OF the aid Of that
I conpany's powerful lobby at Washington
| in his attempts to Gust Clark. Should he
| fail In the senate, 1t IS COncefVaDlG URN
this company might make 1t exceedingly
lively for the copper business OF Clark.
Clark and DAILY are representa- tiveS or
the newest and crudst conditions Of the
| progressive West. They are emanations
Of that section of the country which,
with material welfare as chief occupa
ton, is only beginning to enter into the
period of state making and law making.
| They are from a vicinity where the indi,
vidual is entitled to what he is able to
get, and where his ability to get 1T con-
stitutes his title.
Gold and wealth have surrounded the
| contestants. Gold and the pursuit of II
| have been the most engrossing interests
Of the community They have lived In a
country where the past is easy to forget
and only the fool let's 1t trouble him, .
where it has been said that there was
once millionaire for every 1000 people
and $1,000 per capita deposited In the
| banks every day; where, as Rollin Lynde
HART said In ''The Montanians," peo-
pie VIII do anything for money; people
of education will go into deliberate exfIe
to hold down claim; young men OF
social training and refined tastes will live
in intolerable mining camps, and there
are even some 10000 abandoned wretches
who are wasting their days in Butte
e Gold is a great leveler; it levels
up, not down"
In appearance the two men differ vast
ly Clark is slender. elegant In appear
ance, with auburn hair; and beard, just
beginning to show gray threads. His
sixty years rest lightly. upon his shout
ders; his blue eyes are keen and alert.
He is a man who knows how to- grasp