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Show DALY AND CLARK. OF MONTANA. , Story of the Irish. American Copper i Kings. (From the Boston Pilot.) j It is a bottle of giants according to ; the New York Journal this struggle between Clark and Daly, the Montana I copper kings, over the former's right to his feat in the United States senate. It is the bitter culmination of the long, picturesque feud between these two rivals for the control of the politics of a s:ate these two self-made millionaires million-aires whose careers have been so closely associated in the development of the material resources of Montana, these two men who have nothing in common but a mighty ambition. Montanathat Mon-tanathat is the prize. Each of thes-e wen has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to win this gieat prize, j ' Money in blocks of tens of thousands has been given out witch such a free hand that the older politicians of tha east have stood amazed as the story of this battle of the west h.-us been unfolded un-folded at the national capital. Fortune and fame have been won by thcMe. two men side by side in the mines of Mont aim. Paly is now worth $20.-OOO.OnO; $20.-OOO.OnO; Clark something over $50,000,000. lark was the first in the lield. When Daly went. to Hutte he had heavy financial finan-cial backing, but he did not have any money of his own. He was first and foremost a practical miner not a common com-mon laborer or a good hand in a mine only, though he could do a. day's work beside any other, but a miner who und:v?toid ores and how to mine them. Clark was first and foremost a banker. Years before Daly went to Montana, Clark had proved himself a moneymaker, money-maker, as a merchant and a money lender, and when Daly appeared he had acquired mining interests that were yielding handsome returns. After Daly had spent a year or two in Iiutte mine's he realized, before any one else, the treat wealth there was in the ore bodies bod-ies of the district. ! With his backing, Daly war? able to take advantage of the situation. After he had secured mines and water rights he got a town site twenty miles from Butte. Then, he knew his mines would require immense supplier of timber, and he secured vast tracts of forest lands and put in the largest saw mills in the northwest. He knew he would need fuel, and ho bought coal mines and coal prosjev.t;. Then he realized that the supplies the mines and his employees em-ployees would require would constitute an immense business in itself, and he organized a company to handle that branch of the business. Suddenly Clark and the whole state awoke to" a realization re-alization that the man who had been slightingly referred to by the so-called financiers" of Helena and Butte as the "Irish mine boss" was a power in the land, and that he had under his control more employees' and paid out each month in wages thousands of dollars more than all of his rivals put together. , , L p to the time Daly got all of his enterprises en-terprises in good running shape he did ma iajie any am.erest in politics. When Clark. Hauser and other old-time Democratic Dem-ocratic politicians began to figure on their chanres of carrying the fOate, as they had in past years, they discovered that Daly had to be reckoned with. He had an army of men in his employ, em-ploy, and because he had been their friend the members of this armv were absolutely loyal to him and would do as he ake-d. The politicians went to Dalv for his support, lie knew them, knew how they regarded him, and was not in- I dined to aid them. Just about this j time another figure loomed on the Democratic horizon in Montana. It was that of Charles A. Broadwater of Helena. Broadwater had been engaged en-gaged in the freighting business in the northern part of the state for many-years many-years and had made a comfortable fortune. for-tune. He did not sand high in the estimation es-timation of the old Democratic leairne. They called him "the bull-whacker," and regarded him as- in the same class as "the Jrteh mine boss." But Broadwater Broad-water was a big man, generous, kind, true to his friends, and he had as many Jollowers in the northern part of the plate as Daly had among the mlnens. Komehow or other Daly and Broadwater Broad-water drifted together. They had manv impulses in common, though Broadwater Broad-water was a politician and Daly was not. Through Broadwater's influence i Daly agreed to take an active part in-j politics. Thus was the "Big Four" in Mon- Tana Democratic politics constituted, but there was never a union of the four in the true sense of the word. Hauser end Clark could never rid themselves of the feeling that Daly and Broadwater Broad-water were interlopers. While in the heat of a campaign the four would work together. After the enemy had been met Daly and Broadwa.ier felt the other two were endeavoring to appropriate ap-propriate all the fruits of a victory t which was due to the joint efforts of the four. Broadwater died about seven j or eight years ago. and since that time It has been paly alone -against Clark I and Hauser. In lsifi Hauser, who had I been rate.! as several times a millionaire, million-aire, went to the wall, the bank of which h- was president bavin? failed v-ith liabilities .f $4.0iV.iMio, scattered ' ell over the stale. j I'aly !s a great believer jii the voung Iran. In politics he is continually! pushing him forward, and in business ' as well. He is not an indiscriminate I Fiver of money, however. His atten- ticn is called to some young fejiow who 5s struggling along to get to the front. If he finds he is worthy, is moral, and lias Brain. Daly puts him in the wav to make money. If he shows that he in worthy of the assistance that is first i given he is sure of Daly's friendship so I long as he is what he should be. To- ! day there are scores of young men ! in Montana who are prospering in a ! business way because of the friendship ' DALY'S OEXEBOSITV to his Friends ' Daly is one of the most steadfast friends a man can have, and he is at i the same time one of the worst enemies. ene-mies. Let a man once violate the confidence con-fidence that has been placed in his integrity in-tegrity or in his loyalty, and he can never be reinstated in his good opinion. opin-ion. But Daly has the reputation of never forgetting a friend. An illus- ! t rat ion of this was furnished in Helena ' only a week or two ago. During the capital fight between Helena and Ana-oonda. Ana-oonda. Daly was the most vilified man in the state. But he had a friend in j Helena, who, while he was in favor of that place for the capital, always spoke j of Daly kindly. This man died a few-years few-years ago and left his estate badly involved. in-volved. In the property he left was fome improved realty. Dependent on the income, of the property for their lining was a widow and two daughters, j The daughters had been gently j reared. One of them started in and pave private dancing lessons, and the i other studied stenography and short- hand. Eater she got a position, but the I Income of the two was only sufficient to ! care for the family. There was not a ' Fundus to apply on the mortgage that covered the homestead. The property! was sold at a mortgage sale about a j year ago. The time of redemption was .' about up. Some friends of the family wrote Daly of the circumstances, telling tell-ing fcim of the situation and asking ' him if it were possible for him to re- , deem the property. As there were in- ' dications of it enhancing in v:-ih;o it was probable that in a few years the property could bo so'c? fo- its real value and the mortgage Ilftel, and i there would be some surplus for the : widow and daughters. Daly's answer. I and it came as soon es the mails could carry it, was a New York draft for $14,000. the entire amount of the indebtedness, indebt-edness, as a gift to the daughters. The father of these girls was a Republican Repub-lican in politics, there is not a vote in the family, and in no possible way can Daly have any material return for his kindness. DalV I." '"-red i I cr1 .1v tb '3hn to1or . if with being the one man who has kept wages ud In the state. Several times other employers of miners have tried to cut wages, but he has always refused. re-fused. But he has had trouble with some of the unions nevertheless. Daly j is always willing to pay the union j scale of wages, but his sense of fair play will not allow him to see a man who wants to work prevented because ha does not belong to a union. He insists in-sists on his right to give employment to whomsoever he pleases, paying the union scale, and if after the man goes to work in the mine he cares to join the union, all right. TTp in the Bitter Root Valley Daly has his breeding farm and orchard. In number of trees Daly has the recond largest apple orchard in the country. As to hii? horse establishment, the newspaper render knows that h has bought the bluest blooded animals he could find. Probably the happkst days of his- busy life are spent on his Bitter Bit-ter Hoot ranch. Each summer he is there with his family. He always has friends there. 'They are not, as a rule, people who hnve fine places of their own. Boys and girls of the age of his own children are the principal visitors, and to see Daly with the vounrsters one would not suppose he was carrying the burdens of one of the blgeeflt enterprises en-terprises in the northwest. An illustration illustra-tion will show another phrase of Daly's character. Before he built his smelter at Anaconda Ana-conda the valley below the works was rich and productive. He bought a number num-ber of farms and the tailing: from the works and the copper imprernated water were allowed to run down on the land. Gradually the water covered more and more ground, and some of the ranchmen who would not sell Pave at exaggerated prices found their ranches were being ruined. They went, to Daly and complained. He said he would pay a fair price for the ranches, but he would not be robbed. Among the suf-fererfi suf-fererfi was a man who had given an option on his place to a real estate agent. This agent had tried to make Daly pay a fabulous price for the property pro-perty and threatened a big damage suit. Daly told him to go ahead: that he would not be imposed upon. The ranchman had a friend who was well thought of by Daly and whom Daly trusted. The ranchman was 1n poor health and wanted to go to California. The friend went to Daly and told him the circumstances. "I do not want to rob any man," said Daly, "but I will not be robbed. I think that place i.s worth so much. Now you get a good man to place a value on it and I will pay for it, but that thieving agent is not to get a cent." The valuation was fixed higher than Daly had placed it, but he paid it without dissent only : stipulating that the owner get it all. j In his home life Daly is a model hus- j band and father. While most indulgent, I there is one point where his wife's per- I suasive powers have in the past been : without avail. He willnot sit for ai photograph. Some years ago the news- j papers wanted to get a picture of him. I His wife was appealed to, but she could not get him to sit. Daly is not a public pub-lic speaker. In his whole residence in Montana he has not talked in public more than half a dozen times, and then he has spoken for but few minutes. DALY AND CLARK ARE OPPOSITE. OPPOS-ITE. Daly it? a lusty, ruddy faced Irishman, Irish-man, and in his prime was broad of shoulder and deep of chest. Clark is slender, a man of little physical force. Daly is- hearty, impetuous, enthusiastic. enthusias-tic. Clark is cool, reserved, almost pessimistic. pes-simistic. Daly is magnetic. There is a rollicking- burr in his tongue sometimes, and if he mangles the Queen's English it is because well, probably he does it on purpose. Clark is precise of language, lan-guage, suave and polished. Have you never seen a man whose intellect "was j so cold it deemed to chill ycru? One gets that impression from Clark- All the country knows the story of Clark's election to the Senate by the Legislature of Montana, the protest against his faking his seat by sundry citizens of the State, who allege that he bought his seat, and who give name and amounts in five figures, and hi9 countercharge that he is the victim of a conspiracy, of which Daly is 'alleged to be the prime instigator. The Senate will decide the facts in the case. Citizens Citi-zens of Montana are interested. The good name of the State is at stake. "William A. Clark is the best organized organ-ized piece of human machinery I have ever known. This is the statement of a man who knows Senator Clark intimately and who has studied his character. He gives it as the summing up of the characteristics char-acteristics which have made the man successful in many lines of human endeavor. en-deavor. His mental organization give him a grasp of details which is marvelous, marvel-ous, and which enables him to retain th? unflagging mastery of the gigantic business1 enterprises he has created. Although he is at the head of mr- cantile. manufacturing, mining ami I agricultural concerns whose capitaliza-: capitaliza-: tion runs far into the millions, employing employ-ing more than 3,000 men, there, is no I detail too small to engage his atten-i atten-i tion. Distance from the scene of oper- ation cuts no figure with him. He an-! an-! rihilates space, as he does time, and wherever the electric wire runs ha keeps his hand upon the key and is in touch with his responsibilities. Even here, while he is conducting the great fight of his life, battling for hia seat in tho Senate and his good name, he overlooks nothing. Every night before be-fore he goes to bed he scans the daily-reports daily-reports forwarded to him of the progress prog-ress of his business. It may be of his immense smelters at Butte, his fabulously fabu-lously rich copper mines of Arizona, his million-dollar beet sugar factory in, Southern California., his rubber and coffee plantation's in Mexico, his coal mines, railroads, wire mills, or what not; he must know daily what each is ; , doing and what men needs, one would i think it is enough to drive a single man ! distracted. Not Clark, however. 1 "When I go to bed." he says. "I will myself to go to sleep, and. presto! I'm off for a refreshing Hleep." That, of course, is the control of mind over physique, and that man's mind is a wonder. He seldom retires before 1 or 2 o'clock at night. He is up by 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning. He eats sparingly, spar-ingly, drinks when he wants it, but never to excess. He is a bundle of nerve and muscle, but with both muscle mus-cle and nerve under control. He is fond of fiocial relaxation, a connoisseur of art. has a discriminating taste for literature, lit-erature, and is anything but sordid. I Clark always demands results. Brom- jpes without performances he cannot ! abide. Close in his business dealings, ' he ie generoun where generosity Is jus-i jus-i tioe. He does not intrust his business too much to managers. Every man who i wn;ks for him knows that Clark Is- the had of the establishment, and. further more, that Clark is aware of all that is going on in that particular branch. The result. is to infuse something of hi own personality, of his wonderful energy, into all his subordinates. Here, in Washington he keeps few assistants. He attends to his own correspondence, ; and dictates from 200 to S00 letters a day. He works rapidly, but intense- j ly." and without nervousness. He is brief, but never brusque. The polish grined by years of residence in European Eu-ropean capitals he carries with him at p'l timeis. He is approachable, but not the kind of a man to inspire one to be familiar with him. He can scent an importer at long distance. Hia business, busi-ness, acumen Is) an instinct improved by intelligence end experience in dealing deal-ing with all sorts and conditions of men. CLARK AS A STUDENT. Versatility, and thoroughness should be included among his most pronounced characteristics. Whenever it is necessary neces-sary to acquire a knowledge of science In a particular line of his business he sets himself to the study until he has mastered it. Thus he took up chemistry chem-istry when he wanted to raise sugar beets. He visited the beet farms of Germany and France and the labora-! labora-! tcries of chemists in Europe, and he j knows the beet now. He Is a mechan-- mechan-- chinery into a mine, no engineer can j fool him on the hoisting power of a j I lift, capacity of a pump or the ability ic, and when he desires to install ma-of ma-of a stamp mill to do the work required. re-quired. He understands railroad building; build-ing; is abieat of the latest improvements improve-ments in electrical machinery for coal mining, and the chances are he could run a locomotive or make up a freight train. He paused at the busiest time of his life to take a course In mineralogy at Columbia College, in New York. That was after he had spent years as a prospector and practical miner. The late Senator Hearst used to say that Clark was the best mineralogist on the Pacific coast. No one ever sells' him a "salted" mine, and when he purchases' a property everyone knows it is a certain cer-tain winner, for he goes into nothing to lose. When he is contemplating acquiring a mine he puts on a pair of overalls and goes into the shaft or tunnel, hammer i In nand. and ramains it the work until hla own eye-si have seen the ere and his own Judgment estimated its extent and value. There is one notable instance of his policy in this re.?pet. A New Jersey Jer-sey copper company became his debtor, and he had to take over the business. In looking over the bocks, noting tho slightest details, he ob?erved that during dur-ing 1SS3 the largest amount of material ma-terial received was a quantity of rich copper bullion from a small property in Arizona. His attention was attracted at-tracted to the gold and silver values of the bullion, and he investigated the source. He found the minn under bond to others, who had. .employed experts to pass upon it, but their decision had resulted in the forfeiture of the bond and lease. He promptly renewed them, . and a controlling interest of the property prop-erty was placed in escrow for a year, with a bond and lease for three years. Then he went to the mine and., donning don-ning overalls and jumper, tipent three week? below ground. He says that the experts hnd sampled in a. circle at fie-foot fie-foot intervals. He took his samples on i each side of the tunnel at intervals of j twelve inches, and soon discovered that j the other experts had happened to strike the unpror'ttctlve streaks. His ; juc".vmer.t was that the mine was a bo- r.n7. and he put his monpy into it, ' sinking to a 700-foot level. Today the mine is turning out copper at the rate , of 5 000.000 pounds a month, containing ; more than enough silver and gold to I pay for the separation of the metals. I Its exploitation was due entirely to the J skill, energy and pertinacious inquiry j of this multi-milliornire. who was not above working like a laborer for weeks to ct?e. for himself what was in the bow- I els of the earth. When he takes up an industry he tries to control all branches of it. Thus, owning copper mine?, he must build smelters to work out the ore; then he j constructs railroads to transport it to the channels of commerce: next he 1 buy? coal mines to run the smelters 1 j to work up the products of the mines j and the smelters. He buys lumber for-; for-; fsts to furnish timber for 'he mines. , He owns ranches and sells cattle to feed his workmen. But the-so multifarious multi-farious industries do not satiny him. He has not enough to keep him busy, even with his travels and his studies. Ho neo must embark in beet raising and sujrar manufacturing, and being still unsatisfied, purchase? 32,000 acres i of land in. Mexico and starts in to rais- ing coffee, rubber plants and tea plants. ! All the time he is keeping in view his j pet hobby of mining and is reaching j out after lead and other minerals in the Rockies and the coast ranges. In 1S78 he dropped his business long I enough to take a major's commi-ssion i and head a, battalion agains-t Chief Joseph Jo-seph in the Nez Perce Indian uprising. upris-ing. A MAN OF MANY INTERESTS. One naturally wants- to know something some-thing of the history of a man who has done so much and achieved such success suc-cess in a material way. It is an interesting inter-esting story, but contains nothing of the miraculous. It is a recital of hard work, hard knocks and the succesa resulting re-sulting from indomitable enera-y and unusual intelHg-ence and aotitude for certain lines. He is of Irish extraction, extrac-tion, born near Connellsville. Pa., in JS39. His father moved to Iowa, and the lad of 16 helped to break the soil of the prairie farm of the pioneer. He I worked nire months of the year, and in the remaining three months took his education. Soon after renchincr his majority ma-jority he crossed the plains, driving a team to Colorado, where he worked in the quartz mines. A year or two afterward af-terward he joined a stampede to the gold mines of Bannock, driving an ox team for sixty-five days to rea-h the spot. Then he stampeded with the crowd to HoTTe Prair'e and secured a i eljom, which he worked for two seasons, sea-sons, j He cleaned up $1,300. and this was his real "stake" in life. It was the beginning' begin-ning' of the immeTLse fortune, the real amount of which no one knows but i hims-elf. His exnerience in petting that $1,500 taught him there were other ways than, mining to make money quickly. Provisions were scarce and hich. and he brought in a load from Salt Lake Citv. which he sold at fabulous fabu-lous prices. He took the proeeedis and' rode horseback to Bo'so Citv. Ida., where he bouffht several thousand pound. of tobacco n.t $1.50 a pound, and. teaminsr back to the mins. sold it nut ouiokly at J5 and $6 a. pound. His history for the next few.yeiars is but a recital of on successful mercantile mer-cantile operation after nnother, his capital increasing all the time. In 1S72 he began to trke an internet in Montana Mon-tana connor industries and branched out ramdly into mininir and smelting. His business has expanded prodigiously prodigious-ly evr since |