The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-12

heard. While Cochran delighted and
 enthused the House. as he always does, | he shot way over the heads of nine- | tenths of the members to whom the
 thing was all Greek, and that is why
 the speech died the day after 1t was | made Old Joe never paused in his 1 cZarism and made a acquisition that
 very night on the White House for ad- l ditional raw material for Congressional 1 legislation. if the White House was in | further need of that sort of stun. If the impeachment of Andy Johnson had | not failed the House of Representa- | tiyes, instead of being in the subordin- | ate position 1t now occupies, would | have become. what 1t was intended to be--first in the governmental system. 1 Take the Constitution and read Article | I and see the vast powers conferred on | Congress and to the House was given
 the purse. without which the govern | ment would die.
 l Champ Clark was born in the blue grass region of Kentucky the very day Webster made his masterly speech on | the compromise of 1850. His father l was John Hampden Clark. and his | mother was Aletha Jane Beauchamp. Collaterally she was not a distant rel ative of George Robertson, whose su- perior as a jurist the American bench | has not yet produced, not even in John Marshall. Clark gets his stalwart l physical development from the Rob-
 ertsons, and much of their intellect | went with it. His father was farm er and Clark was put to work as soon as he had the strength to perform the | lightest share that is a part of farm economy. Thus he is of the soil, of the l farm, of the cornfield, of the tobacco patch, of the hemp brake. He shot squirrels for recreation and hunted 'possums for excitement. He had a pen etrating mind. and thus he could read.
 write and cipher before ordinary boys were half through the old blue back webster's spelling book His was healthy body, and cornbread strength ened his bones and toughened his mus
 cles as the blue grass does those things for the thoroughbred. He was left
 motherless at the age of 3 years. and was reared by an elder sister, now the
 wife of beloved clergyman of Rich
 mond, Va She helped to form the boys character and make a useful man of him. How well she succeeded Is
 shown in the fact that he taught school. to which went boys older and
 larger than himself, when he was bare ly IS. and that was community where no moral or intellectual weakling could teach school at all.
 He was taught the virtues of fru- gality from his childhood and from his
 savings he managed to sustain himself
 at the Kentucky University for three
 years, and until he was expelled for
 shooting a man from Ohio. He was
 quick to learn and his memory is like
 a tar bucket that retains whatever touches it. Especially was he swift to learn facts, and they serve him well in the American Congress and on the
 lecture platform to this day.
 r.f, at Tnfh
 any College. Alexander Campbelrs
 school. do not state 1t as a fact. but
 I am of the impression that it was
 the intention to make a preacher of
 the Hon. Champ. Be that as It may
 they made an intense Campbeliite out
 of him. and the man who assails that
 church in his presence can get all the
 argument, of whatever sort. he can
 well manage. When I use the term
 "Campbellite" I mean no offense. Alex
 ander Campbell was one of the great
 est men of his time, our greatest di-
 vine of whatever sect. and I see no
 reason why his name should not be per
 petuated as Martin Luther's was Clark
 remained at Bethany until he grad uated. the head of his class. in 1873, | and with the highest grade any stu | dent ever attained Tn that institution.
 He did not become minister of the 1 Gospel. but he was chosen president 1 of Marshall College at Huntington, W. | Va where he remained a year and l then entered the famous law school at Cincinnati, and George Hoadley was one of his masters in the study of that great profession.
 Kentucky is the child of Virginia, and Missouri Is the child of Kentucky.
 Before this century shall have com pleted its fifth decade. Missouri will be the empire State of the Mississippi
 Valley Not so politically endowed by nature in the variety, of products as | Kentucky, her area is greater and the | gross products of her soil larger. Far
 mer Hatch, the grand old man who so | long represented in Congress the Han | nibal district, always grew eloquent | on the agricultural products of his l State--corn, wheat. oats, rye. cattle. swine and mules. To those are added | the nroducts of the barnyard and the | orchard-poultry, eggs and fruit. Mis- l souri will pass Ohio in the race the
 next census, and collar Illinois by 1920. | when. she celebrates her centennial as
 State in the American sisterhood. | Champ Clark. too. loves Missouri as | deyotedly as did Father Hatch. and he | is eIoouent when sounding her praises. | No plebian little adjectives for him. | If is always Imperial Missouri" when | Cbamn talks of his and Father Hatch's
 adopted State And Pike County! One
 must hear Champ on Pike before he | makes up his mind about the hub of l this Union of ours.
 In 1875 Clark now a lawyer. went
 to Pike County and pitched his tent. He taught school. edited a newspaper, and practiced in the courts, He was
 young. healthy, vigorous, gifted, de | termined, popular. and if sometimes
 nreverse he was never goddess. He | succeeded, was chosen to office. and in l 1880 was elector on the Democratic
 ticket of Hancock and English. Later he was in the State Legislature and in 1 1881 he married the excellent woman ] who Is now his wife and the mother N gS V 2