The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-07
QUOTES BIBLE.
Champ Clark Introduces Speech
as Permanent Chairman
BY Line Taken from the
Scriptures.
BY FALSE PRETENSES.
He Declares Republicans Are
Trying to Retain Power.
Denies That Democrats Are a
Free Trade Party.

| Convention Hall, st. Louis, July T.
Congressman Champ Clark of Mis-
souri, on assuming the permanent
| Craftsmanship of the Democratic ma
tional convention spoke as follows:
'In his haste King David said that
all men are liars" Had he been In
Chicago while Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge was reading the Republican
pronounced the same opinion more
leisurely, for surely there never was
more mendacity packed into the same
space in any document purport1ng to
be a grave state paper. Shakespeare
says:
Thrice is he armed. that hath his quar-
And he but naked, though locked up in
whose conscience with injustice is cor
rupted.
In the impending conflict our quar-
beyond all cavil.
To state it in a general 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 govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people, instead of a govern
for the classes.
To state it with more particularly.
we insist that exorbitant taxation shall
be reduced to Just and reasonable
rates; that extrava gance in appropria-
lions shall cease; that economy shall
prevail in all the transactions of the
government; that all the departments
shall be thoroughly investigated from
top to bottom by congressional COM
nittees; that all evil-doers of what
ever degree shall be driven from the
public service and properly punished:
that the trusts shall be proceeded
and smaller criminals; that the consti-
tuition accompanies the American flag
into our new possessions.
Roosevelt Not the Country.
The proposition that we must sup
port President Roosevelt'S Philippine
policy-if he has ,any-right or wrong.
is the veriest rot-a tale told by an
idiot = am willing to go as far as
any one in patriotism; 1 will support
my country in any emergency-but
President Roosevelt is not the coun-
try. The time has not yet arrived
1 pray Almighty God that it will never
arrive-when the American people
will accept the arrogant dictum of
Louis XIV, if repeated by an Ameri-
can president, II am the state.'' If
President Roosevelt is at all worthy
of his high position, ne must enter
tain supreme contempt for those po-
litical supple-jacks, particularly for
those claiming to be Democrats, who
go about with sanctimonius mein.
saying:
THE president is wrong in his Phil
ippine policy, but we must support the
president" Out upon all sucn cringing
fdiocy.- Suppose case: Suppose that
when George III undertook to force our
fathers 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 stirs the
heart like strains of martial music,
had arisen in mis- place and said gently
as a sucking doe: His most gracious
majesty is wrong about this stamp tax
business. but we must as loyal subjects
support him, right or wrong" and sup
pose Washington, Jefferson, Warren,
Adams, Greene, Lee Hamilton-all that
glorious host of warriors and sages had
weakly agreed to that-what would we
be today? Instead of being the richest,
most puissant republic on 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 1.-The king
can do no wrong, but when he did
wrong they boldly and iconoclastically
trampled that preposterous falsehood
tinent from his iron grasp, dedicated it
as the home of freedom and to the twin
propositions that governments derive
their just powers from the consent of
created equal There were men in the
land in 1875. Are there only manikins
now? do not believe such a monStrouS
libel. George III did wrong. Our faith
ers fought and conquered him. Theo-
dore Roosevelt does wrong. We will OPP
pose and overthrow him. Support the
presidents policy, Eth? Will some gem
tleman please tell US wnat that policy
is? Has he any? If so, why doesn't he
say so? The truth is, he has none. He
is an opportunist waiting for some
thing to turn up. He is letting things
drift and they are drifting to the deuce
Meantime our soldiers are being KILLED
and dying of disease in shoals. For
what purpose? Will anybody under
take to say? 1 defy any jingo to stand
up and declare with a straight race
what the presidents policy or the Re
publican policy is. No one will say; no
one can say; but some say-more's the
pity and Shame-"The president is
wrong. But we must support the pres
ident.'
last by reason of the new tangled jung
oism that we must shut up our think
ers, close our mouths and ehloroform
our consciences in order to be consid-
cred patriots.
1t avails nothing to claim-as some
do-that Colonel Roosevelt is better
than mis- party. 1t is to be hoped most
fervently that he is-a great deal bet
ter; but truth to tell president can
not be better than his party. Even If
he tries to be he is ruined pol1tlcally-
Johnson, Hays. Arthur and the younger
Harrison. all tried that experiment and
all of them were refused second terms
either in convention or at the polls. so
it will be with Colonel Roosevelt. HIS
particular friends may deem MIN bet
ter than his party. He may think SO
himself, but nevertheless the party viii
drag him down to its level No man
ever found himself in worse political
COMPANY than does President Roosevelt
in this year of grace He is in the
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