Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1900-05-03
CLARK AND DoLLIvER.
The Ninth District Congressman Com
pared to Bolingbrpke, the Rugged
old Wing Minister = Clark
Debater; Dolliveris
an Orator.

WASHINGTON, April 24.--A new de-
parture has been made In political
propaganda, and 1t comes from the
Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania
there are fourl'sC sCommonwealths" in
the American sisterhood, Kentucky,
Pennsylvania and Massa-
chusetts; all the others are "States"
land this asw departure ought to
become fashionable. 1t is political
joint discussion transferred from the
"stump" to the lyceum. II is the ap-
peal from party spirit to reason and
patriotism.
Champ CLARK and Jonathan Dolli-
yer are the pioneer orators in this be-
half. / do not know who conceived
u. Fact It is that somebody at
Chambersburg, Pa, asked Clark and
Dolliver to come there and hold a
Joint discussion for the benefit Of
something or other. Each was paid
800, and the charity, In whose behalf
they spoke, got about $500 net out Of
It, That audience was no rabble, no
hurrah crowd. It was composed Of
men and women who read and who
thought-the people who owned
Franklin county, Pa, and who shape
its thoughts and its destiny.
I'll were called upon to pick two
champions better matched than these
two / would not know where to hunt
for them. Dolliyer is an orator;
CLARK is q debator. would call CLARK
the Ben Hardin Of our day; ! would
call Dolliver the William H. Wads-
worth, of Iowa. CLARK startles you;
Dolliver thrills you. CLARK calls 3
spade spade; Dolliver calls spade
an instrument. Clark is the bull dog
that seizes his subject at the brisket,
grips it with the jaws of the mastiff
and shakes the life out Of II; Dolliver
is the pointer, with unerrlng instinct,
that directs the voter to the quarry.
Both deal in epigram, but 80 different
are they In thought and in speech, In
idea and in manner, that you realize
that CLARK is the flint and Dolliver the
steel.
Dolliver 10 . much younger man
than CLARK In years-eight years
as q man is as old az he
feels--a woman is as old as she looks
II suspect that Clark 10 as young, for
all practicable purposes, as his rival.
CLARK is fifty and looks thirty. Dolli-
yer is forty two and looks to be thirty.
CLARK can lift 200 pounds; he 10 one
man in Congress stronger than Allen
In the Senate, or De Graffenreid in
the House. .Dolliver is o better 1u6ge OF
red head duck; CLARK Is better Judge
OF bacon and cabbage. CLARK lie
student. Few men In Congress are
better read-few men have met are
better read. Maybe It is fortunate he
was not born with a silver spoon In
bis mouth, and mayhap II is un-
fortunate. In his youth, when his
mind was plastic, he had 10 work
rather than to read.
fofnkpo ue was AOIhuink OuaEhosok.
II one will take up Bolingbroke, read
the controversy between him and Sir
Robert Walpole, he will see Champ
Clark pictured in the rugged old Wing
Minister, and yet, with the exception
of Bourke Cochran, l have never
known Congressman who could
quote history so nearly like Boiling
broke does as does Champ CLARK.
Judge Brewer, of the United States
Supreme bench, is the author, or
rather the editor Of work embodying
the great orations from Demosthenes
down. He has incorporated Champ
Olark's speech In eulogy Of Frank
Blair in the collection, and II is one of
the richest in classic and historic al
lusions the American Congress ever
heard. / will write Of that speech
hereafter, = sAvoYARD In Courier
Journal.