Show GRAND STRATEGY We think so far as anything shows that Ron W A Clark has shown the Senate of the United Spates that 3 man who has a net Income of 1001000 n month Is so favored of heaven that he Is n hard man to throw down Tho Senate were about to dcclare that the seat he has been occupying for some months was vacant I was a sort of I Christian Science device the theory being that the Senators did not see Senator Clark In hfs scat but Just I thought they saw him But they never I nard that he was never elected There Is I nothing Intangible about a Montana Legislature His election j was never i doubted On the strength of I and 8trnSth the certificate which Mr Clark carried I from the Governor lie wns permitted to take his scat was put upon half a dozen committees and he has ben working on those commit cg like a whcclliorse 1 winter ant moreover I has voted on every measure Vhat han J I come before the Senate Havln a hint from the Committee on Elections that I the members could not see him in his seat that really his seat was vacant Mr Clark set his philanthropic Instincts In-stincts and Impulses to iork to Improve Im-prove the eyesight of the members He resigned and h C the chair day before I yesterday and yesterday morning returned re-turned with the visible credentials which are backvd by the Constitution of the United States which declares I that when 1 vacancy occurs It can be I filled by appointment The Senate cannot go back of that and It cannot very well expel him on a mere suspicion that In the excitement nf a heated election elec-tion he expended three and a half days salary In treating and whooping up the boys The chances are thai there Is not a Senator on that floor who did not expend more than three and n half days Income to meet the legitimate expenses of the election Why then should Mr Clark be singled out to be punished Our Judgment Is that his position is unassailable and that the constitutional background to his appointment ap-pointment will make him conspicuously present In his scat Good men are hard to throw down and It seems to be necessary to occasionally teach even the Senate of the United States that allsurrounding truth More we predict pre-dict that when Montana elects a new Legislature Mr Clark will be reelected 1C any Democrat is and wo believe too that If left to a direct vote of the people I he would come nearer being elected than any other Montana Democrat Demo-crat |