The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-01-22
TUESDAY, JANUARY % 1901.
STILL SOME KlCKERS.

AS was to be expected the Butte
Miner throws whole bushelful of
boquets at it's owner, w. A. Clark,
on the occasion of his election to the
senate. In the course of one of its
numerous eulogiums the Miner says:
Those who had been his friends
through good and evil report will re-
joice at the decisive manner in which
he has shown his right to their con-
fidence and esteem. Those who al
lowed themselves to believe the
things urged against him will be
glad and eager to admit, in the face
of what has happened in Montana,
that their judgment was wrong and
will hasten to admit and repair the
injustice they did.
That's very nice, indeed, and
Mr.. Clark would doubtless feel much
easier in his mind if he could feel
quite sure that the senators will take
the Miners view of him when he ap-
pears for admissionto the senate next
March. The general opinion seems
to be in Montana that Clark will get
the coveted endorsement of the sen
ate, this time, but there is not lack
ing evidence that this opinion is not
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For instance. in discussing Clark's
apparent triumph, the Seattle Post
Intelligencer says a few things, not
at all in harmony with the Miners
view of the matter. The Post-Intel-
ligencer says:
This country has seen few more
shameful sights than William A.
Clark exulting in his successful pur-
case of a seat in the United States
senate. His speech upon receiving
the votes of his property in the legis-
lature was characteristic of the man;
bitter, boastful, breathing vengeance
finger at his tainted title. To what
pass has the state of Montana come
and what shameful experience
awaits the senate at Washington.
Clark exults coarsely in his tri-
umph, while the man VINO helped to
lay his commercial transaction bare
before the people has failed of re-
election. 1t is of piece with his
famous withdrawal from the senate
at the time when ne already prepared
to spring his appointment by the gov
ernor. He knows that Senator Chand
ler's action in the investigation was
one of the most meritorious features
of his public service; that it had nc
more connection with his retireme II
than had the conduct of Lord kitch
ener in South Africa. Clark knows
also that his own election is in NJ
sense "vindication," unless vindica
tions are sold by the yard. But sucl
has come to be the impudence o
Doodle that this petrayer of Il com
monwealth, this enemy of virtue an
honor in public life, plays the bras
CART unshamed in the presence of tn
nation.
The senate owes it to itself, to honor
to the security of our institution
against the assault of corruption, t
exclude this man from it's member
ship. We believe that no create
danger can threaten this country tina
the debauching of it's suffrage and i,
representative system. We believ
that there is no higher duty Resin
upon our legislative bodies than
deprive vote-buyers of the prize fo
which they have betrayed their ow
honor and purchased that of other
One long glad shout of acclaim woul
go up from every portion of the Ian
if the senate should set up this star
dard and declare that no man henc
forth need ask for entrance there III
less he came with clean hands and
title resting only on the suffrage {
free and honorable electorate. 7
that it must come at last, by the il
tolerable encroachments of the boo
Ter. Better make the stand and e
tablish a record now.
That's pretty hard on Clark, and
will be harder should the senate tai
the acknowledgements view of tt
matter which is unquestionably tt
view of the country at large, wha
ever it may be in Montana. Althoue
Chandler is out, Hoar is still in al
the latter is understood to have yiev
concerning Mr.. Clark quite as pr
nounced as Chambers.