The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-16
THE PARTING HAS COME.

Of doubt that could have al IN
the minds of those who have been
watching the trend of recent events in
the state that the fusion, political and
personal, entered into last fall at
Butte was on the verge of disintegra-
ton. While the newspapers have
been stating that the Clarks and
OF the ways, there were some who
professed to see in it only another
scheme to undo somebody and that
time would show that the coalition of
wealth and brains would come out on
top, stronger and more effective than
ever. The papers filed with the SUI
preme court tell the tale. The COM
bine has dissolved and only an edict
of the court is necessary to make the
dissolution complete. Senator Clark,
and incidentally Charlie, have no fur
Their use for the young man whom the
elder Clark complimented in SO doubt
full a manner in his recent famous in
terview and they are preparing to let
him fall, and fall real hard. With
other gentlemen associated with them
erased from MI. Heinze's numerous
bonds, his lawsuits will cut a sorry
figure. ana so will he, for it is doubt
full whether any one else can be found
who will assume the risk the original
pondsmen say they assumed and now
want to be released from. The sur
prising part of the thing is that Mr..
Clark openly acknowledges he was
gold bricked," as it was to be a.
sumed a maj Oh his experience and
~shrewdness was not to be taken in
by one so much younger than himself
and presumably not so well up on the
tricks and deceits of life. 1t was prob
ably the realization of this that caus-
ally asa young man OF great promise
and ability but When ne LETT that
dash in his sentence Mr.. Clark was
probably thinking of the fine work of
Mr.. Heinze in making him think and
believe that he was worth millions
when in reality his wealth could be
expressed in figures of much smaller
proportions. No doubt the senator
was going to say something real COM
pllmentary to MI. Heinze when sud
denly the recollection of his credulity
came to him like a flash and he stop
ped and deprived the world of the
knowledge of his full estimate of the
gentleman's worth. But it is not
strange, when you come to think Of
II. Some might have stopped at the
word promise" and said nothing
about ability. AS the record now
shows the stop would have been fully
justified.
The business affairs of Mr.. Heinze
are matters private to himself and
Inc public has no right to ask to know
anything about them or to pry into
them. Consequently nothing should
be said about that part of the col
lapsed combine, but of his political &C.
lions the same is not to be said. When
he entered politics and took and active
part in working for the advancement
of individuals and parties he did that
which is part of the public's business
and his acts in that respect were fit
subjects for public discussion and
criticism.
Originally starting out as a repub-
lican, his allegiance to party did not
prove SO strong that he could resist
the temptation to align himself with
what at II time in the political his.
tory OF the state was known as the
"Dalyites," a party supposedly demo,
cratic, but no SO strongly inclined
that way that it could not, when its
interests demanded a change, conven.
iently throw it's strength to the repub.
licans and then again come out as the
pure and undefiled democracy. For
some reason, it is understood unful
filled promises, he suddenly switch,
ed" in the v%ernacular of the street
and became just rs ardent a supporter
OF the party known as the "Clarkites,'
and as he himself has repeatedly said
made possible the results of last
falls campaign, and in which it is
still well remembered neither the re
publicans nor the "Dalyites' gained
much except experience. Having
been, first a republican and then 8
4Dalyite," it seemed that the gentle
nan had formed his last possible pc
litical alliance and it was thought
he would take care to see that the
last alliance would endure, as he had
run the scale of political alliances pos
sible in the state, it being conceded
that a zweibund Of Heinze and the
populists would cut SO small a figure
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