Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-07-14
Champ Clark Declares It Was
Borrowed From Dem
OCratS.
HE CREATES A SENSATION
Delivers Speech of Bitter Arraign-
ment of Republicans-Is Called to
Assume GaveI as Permanent Chair
man of Democratic Convention.

ton, 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
platform he would no doubt have pro-
nounced the same opinion more lei
surely, for there never was more men,
dacity packed into the same space N
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,
Whose conscience with injustice is
corrupted"
''In the impending conflict our quar-
rel Is just and we are in the right be-
yond all cavil. To state it in gen.
eral way, our contention is thai the
government shall be restored to the
democratic-republican basis on which
the fathers of the republic intended 1t
to rest and shall be made once more
government of the people, by the peo-
pie, and for the people, instead of a
government of the classes, by the
classes, and for the classes. To state
it with more particularly we insist
that exorbitalt taxation shall be re-
duced to just and reasonable lates:
that extravaganza in appropriations
shall cease; that economy shall pre-
vail in all the transactions OF the
government; that all the department
shall be thoroughly investigated from
top to bottom by congressional. COM
mittees; that all evil-doers of what
ever degree shall be driven from the
public service and properly punished;
that the trusts shall be proceeded
against by indictment as are common
and smaller criminals; that the consti-
tuition accompanies the American flag
into our new possessions.
Tee proposition that we must sup
port President Roosevelts Philippine
policy-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
anyone in patriotism; | will support
my country in any emergency; but
President Roosevelt is not the coun-
try. The time has not yet arrived
pray Almighty God that it will never
arrive-when the American people
will accept the arrogant dictation Of
Louis XIV, if repeated by an Ameri-
can PRESIDENT am the state II
President Roosevelt is at all worthy
of his high position he must enter
tain supreme contempt for those po-
litical supple jacks, particularly for
those claiming to be democrats, who
on about with caprtipoopiomc pnan
saying:
1.-The president is wrong in his
Philippine policy, but we must sup
port the president Out upon such
cringing idiocy. Suppose a case:
Suppose that when George III under
took to force our fathers to pay the
stamp-tax Patrick Henry, instead OF
delivering that great lyric speech be-
fore the Virginia house Of Burgesses,
which precipated the revolution and
which still stirs the heart like strains
of martial music, had arisen in his
place and said gently as a sucking
dove: His most gracious majesty is
wrong about the stamp-taX business,
but we must, as loyal subjects, sup
port him, right or wrong, and suppose
Washington, Jefferson Warren. Ad-
ans, Greene, Lee, Hamilton-all that
glorious host of warriors and sages
had weakly agreed to that-what
would we be today? Instead Of be-
ing the richest, most puissant repub-
lie in all the flood of time, we would
still he English colonies, ruled by
British proconsuls and governor-gen-
erals without any voice whatever in
the government under which we live.
Condemned the wrong? Those i'm
mortal state builders we're reared On
the fiction, King can do no wrong,
but when he did wrong they boldly
and iconoclastically trampled that
preposterous falsehood under their
feet and wrestling a continent from his
iron grasp, dedicated 1t as the home
OF freedom and to the twin PROPOSE
tons that governments derive their
just. powers from the consent Of the
governed and that all men are Great
ed equal
There were men in the land in 1776.
Are there only manikins now? do
not believe such a monstrous libel.
George III cid wrong. Our fathers
fought and conquered him. Theodore
Roosevelt does wrong. We will op-
pose and overthrow him.
Support the presidents policv, Ell /?
Will some gentlemen please tell us
what that policy is? Has he any?
If so, why does not he saw so? The
truth is. he has none. He is an OPP
portunist waiting for something to
turn ND. He is letting things drift
and they are drifting to the deuce.
Meantime our soldiers are being kill
He Had II.
Mrs. Newwed-"What! You have
no income but your salary? You told
me you had money to burnt"
Mr.. Newwed-"Ven, ! have just
paid for a ton of COAL haven't II"
What really made him sick: Chin.
mie-"Huh! Dat cigar made yer
sick, did it?" Patsy-"It wuzn't de
cigar. / think dere wuz mi-microbes
an germs on tx.
Rustic Ito conductor)-"Which end
of the car do | get off?" Conductor
(politely)-"Either you prefer; both
ends stop!"-New Orleans Times-De.
mocrat.
Mrs. Spenders-"l wonder what will
be the popular styles in hats this
season." Mr.. Spenders-I"My dear,
women's hats will be divided into two
styles this season, as usual-the style
you don't like and the style l can't
afford" ILLUSTRATED Bits.
Cholly (proudly)-"By Jove! I'm
quite a professor of swimming. don't
you know. taught Mabel Galley
how to swim in two lessons" Jack
Cad! That was quick throwdown,"
Cholly ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS do you