Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-17
CLARK SELECTION
SCENES ATTENDING THE Gull
MINATION OF HIS HOPES.
SENATOR WAS BADLY RATIFIED.
Has Been Under a Tremendous Strain
for a Week-Trank Is
Gaining.
Special to the Inter Mountain.

Special to the Inter Mountain.
II lena. Jan. 17.--Hercules has COM
p|eted his his labors. the goods have
been delivered. and once again w. A.
Clark has been elected to the United
States senate.
What though the Augean stables OF
democratic politics in the state of Nor
tana stil smell to the heavens? What
though the legislation promised by the
fusonists has not vet been enacted? W.
a. Clark has been borne aloft on the
wave of adulation and success.
When w. a. Clark received the an
nouncement that the seventh Legislative
session would go into ...story as a
memora bic occasion on account of his
els elton to the second highest honor in
the gift Of the people. He half rose from
his seat and then sank back as a man
exhausted.
Then came the applause, the cheering
and yelling and handclapping. the con-
giatua tons-all the evidences of syco-
phancy that tend to destroy mans
faith in human kind
1t was a dramatic. Il thrilling spec
tacle. And through it all one could not
help feeling the tenderest pity for Mr..
Clark as he sazed upon the spectacle OF
thu man whose great ambition had been
giatified. The strain had been Well nigh
more than his .rather frail frame had
been able to bear.
Then came the committee and escorted
him to the platform and once again the
tympanium of his ear was set in SYM
pathetic vibration as the waves of air
stirred into action by the tongues of the
faithful broke upon their surface.
My heart is too fun for utterance,"
he began.
His appointment had been perfectly
legal when Lieutenant Governor Sprigss
had taken advantage of Governor
Smiths chase after n gold brick into
California and sent him back to the sem
ate. but he had not taken advantage of
it: he wished to be vindicated' by
the people of Montana, and he had been
vindicated.
AS regards that senatorial investiga-
ton, it was not conducted in the right
spirit. Senator Chandler had at once
occupied the position of public prose-
cutor and public prosecutor Now
vindication had come. and had come
without the asking. Like the kiss which
came to Endymion as he slept with his
hocks under the pale light shed by Dian,
.unasked unsought," had come his vim
dCaton.
The forces of corruption and wicked
ness and periidy had struggled against
this man whose Nindication was I'M
sought. and had gone down at the late
Of defeat.
The people should never regret what
t1ev had done for him. He would be their
spokesman in the halls of congress. their
good shepherd to whom they could ever
come and receive succor in time Of need.
The legislation promised them should be
enacted and all would so merrily as a
welding bell.
And then he went down to the Helena
.hctel, and held a leVee. His arm was
shaken until today it must be very sore.
but what of thato Does not every
twinge of pain remind him of a face suf-
fused with the bright light of success,
and bring back to his ears the echoes of
a voice raised in gladstone trill?
The vote yesterday showed that some
scientific lobbying must have been done
on the previous evening.
t. r. Kinds for senator. What caused
him to lapse from the caucus
agreement can be only conjectured, but
certain it is that the rest stayed man.
fully at their post of duty. McTague
and Geary. the two independent demo-
Gratis who voted for Clark. did exactly
what was expected of them. The indie
pendents have heen trying to get under
the fusion wing ever since the present
legislature convened.
Just who will secure the short term
senatorship is a very perplexing ques-