Show THREE CORNERED FIGHT this tile the situation in filon montana tans senatorial contest helena mont jan 3 the montana a senatorial benator ial situation at the opening of the session is in the nature of a three cornered fight with the daly and dark clark forces old political opponents opposed to each other and W J conrad of great falls with a nucleus of halt half a dozen votes in expectant attitude W V A dark clark is bi himself myself a leading cand candidate bdate and his managers clai claim in that he be has enough votes including silver republicans who he were elected by fusion sion with mit h democrats to elect him on the first joint ballot the daly men in the house elected their man henry C stiff of missoula speaker the caucus vote being 30 to 25 for E C day of lewis and dark clark county t y it is claimed that the vote was not an absolute test and that trades for other positions contributed to the result on the other hand darks clarks managers claim twelve out of the nineteen democratic senators in the upper branch the first vote on the senator thip ship will be taken on the dinst |