The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-01-01

A''A'O1' Ni'ii Siy. Inc pOlltiCIduS Salu
yesterday that they had not sue
ceeded in accomplishing anything
and that they were still unsettled.
Some doubt was expressed whether
it would be possible to dispose of the
question out of the Legislature itself,
heretofore it has been designed that
the members should have their work
cut out for them before they went in
to caucus in Helena
The difficulty lies in the ante-elec-
ton promises made to Governor
Joseph K. Toole partly, and it is
added to by the fear that some of the
friends of Governor Toole may insist
on elocting him anyway. There is a
feeling against electing both the SEN
atoTs from the same section of the
| state and that initiates against a
second Butte candidate The men
who say that Governor Toole ought
to have it interfere seriously with the
plans of the machine Clark figures
not only upon this term, but upon an
other one six years hence He hopes
to die q senator.
If Governor Toole goes out of the
governors chair it is feared that the
democratic party will go to pieces.
The belief is expressed generally
among the democrats of the state
that he is the only man who, as gov
ernor can prevent q dissolution of
the Montana democracy during the
next four years.
This is not complimentary to the
lieutenant governor, Frank Higgins
OF Missoula, but II is the view the
Clark leaders are taking of it. To
induce Governor Toole to be firm in
his determination not to be United
States senator, definite promises have
been made to him that four years
from now if the democrats win he
will be elected senator for the full
term Of six years The democrats
may not win four years hence, but
that is one of the chances Governor
Toolc is called upon to take. The po-
ticians may not keep their promises;
and that is another hazard of the
game that makes it embarrassing for
Governor Toole
There was talk in Butte of letting
the senatorship go to either A. j.
Davidson or John S. M. Neill of
/ Helena, either one Of whom, it was
the theory of the managers would
get out of the way for Governor
Toole at the proper time if that
course were thought advisable. The
situation is further complicated how,
ever, by the reported freedom of the
Helena Independent from the Clark
obligation. There has been much
speculation among the elect as to
who paid the money that paid the
mortgage to Clark.
| The wise ones among the politi-
clans are OF the opinion that for a
time at least w. G. Conrad will fur
nish the money to make up the def
cit in the Independent counting room.
Mr., Conrad is amply able to do SO
for short time. Whether, after he
| finds that he is the victim of another
conspiracy, he will continue to do so
Indefinitely, is not a matter of spec
ulation. When Mr.. Conrad retires to
the back room of his bank and figures
| it out as a plain business man--and
as a business man Mr.. Conrad is an
undisputed success--there will be a
change.
The second senatorship, as mat
ter of fact, has been left to the poll
! ticians to decide, and still remains as
trading material for the future. The
Clark men talk of a decision on the
| first ballot, but they are not as con-
tident of it as they were-.Helena
Record.