Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-03-11
SENATOR CLARk'S HOUSE.

,or If Golfers is self explanatory:
oe ..uya attacked Senator Clark's house
,,o weeks ago on grounds which
bore and there have not been precisely
nnoo,,,nrehended. Under the scintillat
;ng title of Golfers Weekly Venom,
a sheet printed in Helena, Montana
hearing the amusing title of lndepen
don't comes to the senator's rescue
Tie ratiocination is something almost
&c weird as it's use of English. III
docs not matter whether the eastern
oJitors like either Senator Clark OF
hie house. but it would be token OF
their fairness and intelligence if they
would display a descent appreciation
If the man by his achievements alone.
We can understand that sentence, al.
though we fail to construe it. Mon.
tana, the sheet alleges, 'admires Sen.
ator Clark not as millionaire; not
as a famous character, not, perhaps,
as a senator'-so far, so good. We
agree with the Independent We do
not admire him for his fame, which
we should call notoriety, or for his mil
lions which have been used as ruth
lpSSlY as llcy WOlC hSu, VI 90 u
member of the senate, into which he
broke after hard, and not too frag-
rant contest The Independent ad-
mires him as the most accomplished
and the shrewdest practical miner in
the world He may be all that and re-
main an unattractive odor in American
politics and also in American business.
To abuse a man who has so hustled
and succeeded because his house has
too many chimneys' is, in this Mon
tana view, idiotic, even for a Gotham
magazine Let us explain. Had we
admired Senator Clark's character we
might have dissembled our opinion of
his taste. 1t was because we so
thoroughly regret the man that our
structures on his house were so out
spoken. We observe, in an editorial in
the Washington Times, on the subject
of our attack, the incontrovertible
aphorism that Mr.. Clark may indulge
his fancies in material architecture.
but his moral architecture stands in
a different relation to his environment
He may perpetuate an architectural
joke; he may stud his castle with gar
goyles; but in some other relations
toward the common people Mr.. Clark
might properly be asked a few ques-
tions, not with the expectation that he
would answer them, but just to show
that the populace is sitting up and TAX
ing notice. The paper then sketches
one line of profitable inquiry. Sus-
plcion has arisen as to land frauds in
Montana, the state is Mr.. Cark's by
right, let us not say of purchase. Per
maps hypnotism would be better
word. According to the evidence a
Dand OF schemers there obtained pub
lie land to the amount of fifteen thous-
and acres and unloaded the lot on Mr..
clark. The natural question is as to
whether he knew or suspected the
manner in which those broad acres had
Oeen secured. Then might follow in
Jury about his intent to restore them
TO the proper ownership This is one
fruitful topic out of many that exist.
II is Tor such reasons that we feel no
tompunctions in printing art criticisms
a. candld-in verse and picture-as
liscerning readers will discover in this
ihen just to show the old man the
'aper doesn't care a tinker's continen-
al Tor him, Golfers turned Wallace
- WIN at hlm in a poem entitled Sen
ltor Copper's House"
senator Copper of Tonopah ditch