The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21

is IN the throeS of a political campaign,
or rather Democratic fractional quar-
rel, which threatens TO eclipse the IA
NOUS Clark-Daly affair. The chief fac
tors in the new political feud are
united States Senator w. A. Clark and
the young mining millionaire, r. Aug
ustuS Heinze In the first clash Heinze
carried the Clark people off their feet,
so vigorous was his onslaught, and the
20 end is not yet
The original cause of the quarrel
arose two years ago. Heinze up to
- that time was Republican. He head
ed a conteSting delegation from Butte
to the state Republican convention in
this city, but upon being denied seats
he bolted the convention In a, Spectac-
ular manner. With band at it's head,
the delegation paraded the streets of
Helena, chartered a special train, and
returned to the great mining camp
where a similar parade was had.
He openly allied himself with Clark,
who was then a candidate for senator,
as against the Republicans, and stump
ed the state in his behalf. Further
than that, his adherents assert that he
evolved and executed the plan whereby
Clark, for the first time, was enabled
to WreSt from Marcus Daily the con-
troll of Butte. That plan was to es-
tabliSh without reduction of wages an
eight-hour Workday in the mines and
If his ticket was successful he would
cause the passage in the legislature Of
a compulsory eight-hour workday law.
When Daily Controlled Butte.
Marcus DAILY, through the votes Of
his 1000 miners, always had controlled
Butte. and as that city was the Demo-
cratic stronghold of the state, he sell
dom failed to dominate his party. But
when Days miners saw the Clark and
oil NIL tINvn hnJJrc
less a day than themselves and at the
same salary, they turned to Clark, and
the Clark ticket was elected. DAILY aft
erward Instituted the eight-hour law
day. but the change came too late.
Consequently there was unanimity
when it came to passing the eight-hour
'-law-Republicans Clark Democrats,
DAILY Democrats, and all supporting
1t.
There were two vacancies in the
Senate from Montana at this time, and,
while Clark was naturally chosen for
the long term, he did not look with
favor upon Heinze for his colleague.
The latter had a strong following, how
ever, with the result that the vote
dragged along for sixty days without
choice. The Clark men were firm, how
ever, and finally three hours after the
term had expired by limitation, the
legislature settled upon Paris Gibson.
Thus an enmity sprung up between
the millionaires. Clark was on HeinZe's
bond in the aggregate of about $1,000
900 in the latter's controversies with
the Amalgamated Copper company,
sand to be relieved of that he petitioned
the supreme court. The court, how
ever, refused to grant the relief. The
straw that broke the camels back
came when, last month, w. A. Clark,
Jr., qualified as surety for the Amalga-
mated for $250,0O0 in the celebrated
Minnie Healy case.
First Hint of Fight.
At about the same time, at a ban
Quet in this city, Heinze announced his
allegiance to the Democratic party,
and the word was whispered around
that he was going to contest with Clark
the control of the state
Clark upon being Informed Of
HeinzeS plan, is reported to have said:
''What? That upstart Heinze control
the Democratic party of Montana?
+-Never!"
But Heinze went at his new task
- with a vim, while Clark, feeling Sc
cure in his position, made no eXtraor-
binary eXertions to maintain his hold.
The Democratic State Central COM
mittee met here last week to determine
the place and date for holding the con-
vention to nominate a candidate for
congress and an associate justice of
the supreme court, as we'll as to deter
ton. Clark only laughed at the as
sertions of HeinZe made the night prior
to the meeting of the committee, that
he had control of the body, and Clarks
view seemed to be born out when the
Clark plan as to place and date was
adopted without a dissenting vote.
A Clark man then made a motion
that the apportionment of delegates be
based upon the vote cast for Bryan,
while Heinze adherent moved as
H.
cast for Toole for governor. HeinZes
object in desiring the apportionment
based on the vote for governor was to
reduce Clarks strength in the con-
vention as the latter's strength lay
largely in the counties where Bryan
was strongest.
A vote was taken which resulted in a
tie-13 to IS. Clark was astounded
when he learned that men with whom
he had associated for years in his va
riouS set-toS with DAILY had voted for
the Heinze proposition. HeinZe was
also surprised to learn that commit
tee-men pledged to him had failed at
the last moment.
Both, however, arrived at the same
conclusion as to the cause of these
changes, and charges of bribery were
soon being made by both Sides Sew
eral conferences were had, and late in
the evening a compromise was finally
reached whereby the apportionment
\Was made on one-half of the combined
vote for governor and associate Justice
AS the vote cast for associate justice
was virtually the same as that for gov
ernor, it was decided Heinze victory
The Switch of TooIe.
The sensation of the meeting came
though, when Gov. Toole, who had been
nominated in the Clark Democratic
convention, and who stumped the state
for the Clark ticket as against the Daily
Democratic and the Republican tickets
holding the proxy of the committeeman
from Senator ClarkS home city, voted
for the Heinze proposition.
The next morning the Clark organs
in both Butte and Helena asserted that
the committeeman had betrayed his
trust. The insinuations regarding the
course of the governor were not any
TOO complimentary. Indeed Gov. Toole
telegraphed to the editor of Butte
Npaper for an explanation regarding the
connection of his name with an i'm
nIied bribery. The answer came, but
# was none too satisfactory, with the
result that the governor has openly
allied himself with the HeinZe forces.
Roth sides are working hard to con-
troll the convention. In addition, SEN
Renee. will vote for a successor to SEN
ator Gibson. To that position Heinze
asnires c. w. Clark, the senator's ED
est son, is a candidate for the con-
tsressionaI nomination, and to that
Heinze is opposed.
Senator Clark is out with a sensa-
tional interview in his Butte and Hele-
ma papers, charging that HeinZe's OBJ
jact in irving to control the conven-