The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-08
HOW CHAMP CLARK SCORED
LEADERS AND POLICIES
His Speech on Assuming the Permanent Chair
manship of the Convention

st. Louis. July 7.-On assuming his
place as permanent chairman of the
Democratic National Convention to-
day. Hon. Champ Clark of Missouri
spoke as follows;
I'm his haste, King David said that
all men are liars. Had he been in
Chicago while Senator Cabot Lodge
was reading the Republican platform
he would. no doubt, have pronounced
the same opinion more leisurely, for
surely there never was more mendac-
ity packed into the same space in any
document purporting to be a grave
state paper. Shakespeare says:
Thrice is he armed that hath his
quarrel just.
And he but naked. though locked up in
steel
Whose conscience with injustice is cor
ruoted.
On the impending conflict our quar-
rel is just. and we are in the right be-
yond all cavil. To state it in a gen.
eral way, our contention is that the
government shall be restored to the
Democratic Republican basis on which
the fathers of the republic intended it
to rest and shall be made once more
a government Of the people, by the
people and for the people instead of
a government of the classes, by the
classes and for the classes.
ITO state it with more particularly,
we insist that exorbitant taxation
shall be reduced to just and reason
able rates that extravaganza in APP
propratons shall cease; that economy
shall prevail in all the transactions Of
the government; that all the depart
ments shall be thoroughly investigat-
ed from top to bottom by congress
sional committees; that all evildoers
OF whatever degree shall be driven
from the public service and properly
punished; that the trusts shall be pro-
ceeded against by indictment, as are
common and smaller criminals; that
the constitution accompanies the
American flag into our new possess
sions.
such CringinE Idiocy.
THE proposition that we must sup
port President Roosevelts Philippine
polcy-if he has any. right or wrong.
is the veriest rot-a tale told by an
idiot. l am willing to go as far as any
one in patriotism; / will support my
country in any emergency but Presi-
dent Roosevelt is not the country. The
L
mighty God that it will never arrive
when the American people will accept
the arrogant dictum of Louis XIV if
repeated by an American President: I
am the state If President Roosevelt
is at all worthy of his high position
he must entertain a supreme contempt
for those political supplejacks, partic-
ularly for those claiming to be Demo-
Gratis, who go about with sanctmo-
NOUS moan, saying:
=" The President is wrong in his
Philippine policy. but we must support
the President
out upon all such cringing idiocy.
Suppose a case; Suppose that when
George III undertook to force our IA
theirs to pay the stamp tax, Patrick
Henry. instead of delivering that
great lyric speech before the Virginia
House of Burgesses. which precipitated
the revolution and which still strs
the heart like strains of martial mu-
sic. had arisen in his place and said.
gently as a sucking dove, His most
gracious majesty is wrong about this
stamp tax business, but we must. as
loyal subjects, support him. right or
wrong, and suppose Washington,
Jefferson, Warren, Adams, Greene,
Lee, Hamilton-all that glorious host
of warriors and sages had weakly
agreed to that-what would we be to-
day? Instead of being the richest.
most puissant republic in all the flood
of time. we would still be English col
onies, ruled by British pro-consuls and
governor generals without any voice
whatever in the government under
which we live.
Condemned the Wrong.
"Those immortal state builders were
reared on the fiction that the King can
do no wrong but when he did do
wrong, they boldly and iconoclastical-
~ trampled that preposterous false
hood under their feet. and wrestling a
continent from his iron grasp dedi-
Gated it as the home of freedom and
TO the twin propositions that Govern
ments derive their just powers from