Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-18
SECOND SENATOR.
SITUATION AT HELENA DOES NOT
INDICATE SPEEDY
ELECTION.
FRANKS CHANCES ARE GOOD.
What the Heinze Strength Amounts
to-A New Assembly Humorist
~ Celebrate Election.
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Helena. jar. 1S.-Representatlve ia
kers reputation as the assembly humor-
list was gained in a day and it has been
lost in day His downfall was rapid
and monrnful.
In his place has come Rev. D. B. Price
chaplain of the lower house In his case
the man and the opportunity have COM
bined to establish a reputation that can
stand the missiles from any Davids
sling. If it is everequalled during any
subsequent legislative session. the niche
OF opportunity must be found into which
natural comic genius may be fitted.
In his invocation delivered when the
house was called to order yesterday
morning he returned thanks for the
election of Hon. w. A. Clark to the
United States senate. and concluded his
prayer with these words, and above all
we thank Thee for this beautiful morn
ing after so perfect a nights rest
To those who We're not in Helena on
Wednesday evening last it may be re-
levant to explain that it was the night
on which Mr.. Clark's election was ''cele-
hfaCeO. since lndl OCCASION ileW WIN
has been coined and will take it's place
in the revised editions of the standard
dictionaries: it is "Clarkophobia."
AS for peaceful nights rest in the
bright and glowing vocabulary of
Mumm's Extra Dry, there was no such
word as rest. A fourth of the popula-
ton broke dates with their couches
and celebrated all night. while Jack"
Hoy's record for hurrahing was in dam
ser until daylight.
Crowds Went whooping and yelling up
and down the streets like a thousand
yellow kids turned loose in the streets
of Gotham. Wine flowed in a mighty
stream al the Helena. the Montana club
and the principal saloons of the town.
and many there he that jumped into the
effervescing flood and We're borne along
to the sea of Jags.
Fireworks ste the echoes to playing
hide and seek and Roman candles tinted
the buildings a crimson hue. At stated
intervals the Boston & Montana band
delivered packages of harmony to the
ear of an enthusiastic public.
Following the band was a barouche in
" Which rode the man to whom has come
the great senatorial gift "unasked and
unsought.' He was surrounded by a
large crowd which yelled all the time the
band was not playing. for it's component
units We're showing off, their I'M
bounded admiration and political faith
fulness. In front of the Grandon, the
vehicle stopped and Mr.. Clark rose to
make a speech. He bowed as gracefully
as the restless horses would permit and
lrdulged in some orthodox statements
Then the crowds assembled at the
He lena and later on at the Montana
club, where there We're more speechmak-
ing and toasting. And when the great
round orb of day dropped all ballast and
cut loose from t. eastern horizon he
rose to light the domes and minarets
BacchuS.
Today the town is filled with big heads,
weak stOnachs Redeemed and in many
instances blackened optics - hoars,
voices and secondhand consciences,
That's why the legislators smile and
declare without a dissenting voice that
the chaplain of the house is a humorist
SENATORIAL TANGLE.
From present indications it appears
that unless some boss in the present
legislature energies from the chrysalis
state and brings the keen edge of his
genius in contact With the shorter term
Gordian knot. it may be weeks until
the people know who will be their sec
ond standard bearer in the United States