The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-07-16
both in the party and administration.
Mr. Clark said in part:
Mr.. Clarke Speech.

Mr.. Clark said in part:
Mr.. CIarlxsS Speech.
Gentlemen Of the Convention: The
principal part of the experimenting by
the chairman In this convention has been
accomplished. My business is to run this
convention so that the nominees of it will
be elected next November (applause), and
II shall be done without fear or favor to
them. King David said once in his haste
that all men are liars. If he had been in
Chicago about the time Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge was. reading the republican
platform, he could have taken his leisure
and said that .'All republicans are liars
daughter and prolonged applause)
They dragged out the old free trade
in the coming campaign Men in the frame
of mind that the democrats are this year
can not be scared.
"They declare-the republicans do-the
monumental lie that democratic tariff
always produces a bad time, and re-
publican tariff always produces good
times. And yet, in 70, when Grant was
beginning his second term in the White
House, and the democrats had scarcely
enough votes to call the ayes and noes,
you had panic that made peoples teeth
rattle from sea to sea. Q4aughter.) They
evidently believed in Mark Twain's die
tim, Blessed is the man that bloweth his
own horn, lest it be not blown Laugh
'"They say 'we'-that is the republicans
fought quick and successful war in
favor of Cuba, when the truth Is, as I
they were all there and none of them
dared to deny it, that we took them by
the scruff of the neck and dragged them
into the Spanish war And their disin-
clination to go into. and their disposition
to monopolize all glories, reminds me of
a Poland-China sow that my father used
to tell me about, that was so bashful you
had to pull her ears off to get her to the
trough and so greedy you had to pull
her tail off to get her away. Oaughter.l
I'VE are in favor of cutting down to
reasonable basis the mOnStrOSifieS of
the Dingley tariff rates. We are in fa-
yor of reciprocity that reciprocates Cap
plause.) we are in favor of getting rid
of the Philippine Islands at the first fa-
vorable opportunity They are not worth
baubee and never were. We are in
favor of restricting the functions of the
president and his cabinet to what the
fathers intended they should be in the
constitution, and we believe in compelling
the executive department of this govern
ment to abdtcate the large part of the
legislative function that 1t has usurped.
LAS far as my rulings in this convention
will be, they shall be fair. If we so con-
duct ourselves that all of the various
elements of public opinion that are op-
posed to the Roosevelt administration has
brought together, we will mop them off
the face of the earth from sea to sea in
not do any good presiding over this con-
Yention without your help, and that So
licit that we may have good order, good
feeling and great victory in the contest
to come" (Applause9
Following the speech of Congress
man Clark the convention adjourned
shortly after 6 o'clock until 10 o'clock
Friday morning.
The adjournment was made neces-
sary by the inability of the subcom-
mittee of the resolutions committee to
complete its report.