Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-30
As OTHERS SEE H.

HS UIHEfS DEE ~. |
While Senator Clark has been pretty
discussed by the pres. as he
conspicuous and most natural tar
get in the senatorial inquisition at Wash
the approaching end of the case
is leading to a wider analysis of it's mer-
it's and dement's. 1t is a noticeable fact,
though by no means a singular one, that
position originally taken by the In
ter Mountain is finding advocates upon
all hands, and it is entirely within the
of probability that the consensus
of public opinion will finally crystalize
around that view of the situation. This
paper has held from the inception of the
case that measured from all points of
the compass the contest amounted to an
other instance in which the pot was call
ing the kettle black. 1t is a long way
back to the days of that genial. yet pic
turesuue and intelligent liar-Aesop-yet
modern literature and the folklore of a
more recent date cannot fill the uninter-
rupted demand for illustrations Of a
pointed character half as we'll as that
ancient chief of mental imagry. 1t is
Aesop affords, rather than that great
minds run in the same channel that dis
tinsuished gentlemen the country over
have finally reached the conclusion early
pointed out by the Inter Mountain. name
w., that the Daly-Clark fight is a case
of the pot calling the kettle black.
AS the natural prejudices inspired by
the great wealth Of Mr.. Clark, in the
hearts of those who look upon that gen.
tleman's political aspirations as the out
growth of a boodling ambition alone.
subside around the edges with his APP
preaching punishment. reason comes to
the rescue with a desire to. more fully
investigate the motives of his enemies.
While the American public may never
reach tina sublime attitude in respect to
Mr.. Clark. SO graphically depicted by
General Bragg in the national democratic
convention in 1884, when he declared that
he ''loved Cleveland for the enemies he
had made it is not at all unlikely that
before the senatorial fight fades from
the public mind, Mr.. Clark's democratic
enemies in this state will be even
more thoroughly dispised throughout the
country than any man guilty of no high
err crime before the law than corrupting
the political morals of a bribe-seeking
democratic legislature. This is the nat
ural sequence of the senatorial fight, and
is justified by the historical facts in is
sue.
Aside from paid attorneys and salaried
political boosters. there is not a promi-
nent republican in this state who does
democracy known as the DAILY faction is
guilty of practices which-insofar as de-
grading the political morals and nam
hood of the state is concerned-might
bring the blush of shame to the most
| skillful manipulation of pursestrings in
the following of w. A. Clark. Though the
junior senator, by reason of his position
in the case. is the focal object upon
which the gaze of the American public
is centered, the aftermath will drag that
gentleman's democratic enemies to as
low a level in the estimation of the peo-
pie as it is possible for a vivid magma
ton to portray. In the heroic days of the
buccaneer it sometimes happened that a
pirate was employed to capture d pi-
rate, yet history fails to record that the
captor enjoyed any special amount of
captured. Honors are easy in cases Of
that type, when exemplified in modern
politics. Anent the drift of public sem
timent along the ines referred to, the
following from April Success" entitled
1.-The Humors of the Clark Case may
prove of interest:
Marcus Daily. the mining king of Mon
tana, visited the capitol during the SEES
SionS of the senate elections
last month, and was present during the
hearing in the case of Senator w. A.
Clark, accused of bribery in securing his
election. Thu men are deadly enemies.
and for awhile they glared at each other
across the room. IN the testimony, it was
brought out that Mr.. Clark spent $115, O00
in the general state election in Montana,
ITO help the cause of good government,
and break up the Daily power" in the
politics of the mountain state. None OF
this money. Mr.. Clark stated. was spent
for his own election by the Legislature
thus elected. On behalf of Mr.. Daily, il
was testified that that gentleman spen,
$50, 900, not to get elected to anything
himself, but ito break the Clark power
and also ito destroy the corrupt influ
ences of money in politics." OF this sun
$15, 600 was expended in the purchase o
newspapers with which Mr.. Daily di'
some of his picturesque destroying" o
the other man. Mr.. Clark's honey wen