The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-14
REPUBLICANS
TOUCHED UP BY
CHAMP CLARK
Applause of Democrats and
Shrieks of Laughter on Both
Sides of the House.
ROOSEVELT, HARTMAN
AND THE PANIC OF 1907
PARTY IN POWER RESPONSIBLE
FOR CRASH WHICH EMPTIED
MANY DINNER PALS.

Washington, Feb. 9.-Representative
Champ Clark of Missouri occupied the
attention of the house of representa-
tives today for over an hour in an
address upon the presidents recent spe-
cial message to congress the financial
disturbance of last fall and the tariff
question. It was a characteristic talk
and aroused the interest of the house
TO high degree.
In opening, Mr.. Clark asserted that
a. reasonable view should be taken on
flatters touching the president, but
dhat ii had not been done as a rule.
He is such belligerent parsonage"
he declared. that his lightest word is
challenge to combat"
Bound to Cause a Fight.
The president. he said, could not ex-
press his views upon any question I'M
der heaven, even upon a subject so
prosaic and threadbare as the state of
weather." without precipitating a row,
his extreme adherents swearing that
there never had been ''such a weather
prophet since Adam and Eve were
driven from the Garden of Eden with
flaming swords from paradise. and his
extreme enemies Vociferating that he
knows no more about the weather than
does a ground hog"
The presidents whole public life, said
Mr.. Clark, had been one long success
sion of spectacular fights
No man had been more viciously as
sailed by men of his own party, "and
none was ever, while still in the flesh,
so lavishly lauded by some of the OPP
posing party"
But" he said, "the truth is that this
extraordinary man has waxed stronger
and stronger by wagingo his battles"
Even defeat, he declared, had made him
n larger and more commanding fig
UTe.
Wells Of Friend and Foe.
$50 he said, amid the swirl of
things, the deluge of words, the shout
Ing of the captains, the beating of tom
toms, the groans of crippled Repub-
licans the yells of friend and foe, one
who was a personal friend of Theodore
Roosevelt the man, but political oppo-
nent of Roosevelt the politician or
statesman. had but little chance per-
haps of being heard in this babel of
voices
Mr.. Clark, however, insisted that he
would have his say. He spoke of his
personal liking for the president and
said that although after the manner
of strong men, the president had pro-
nounced virtues and glaring faults of
character, he had never abused him
nor had he grown hysterical in ad-
miration of him, but he had support
ed hilI when he was right and fought
him tooth and naiI' when he was
wrong.
Fact Easily Proven.
Mr. Clark spoke of the claim that
Ia
his party, (which fact he estimated
easily could be established without
running any imminent danger of being
translated after the manner of Elijah
in chariot of fire by reason of his
goodness"
But, he said. whateYer the presidents
virtues or faults, he was not a Demo-
crat. Occasionally he said the presi-
dent, very Sauch TO the delight of the
Democrats and confusion of the Re-
publieans, "appropriates or absorbs.
bOrrOws or seizes. a Democratic idea,
and from his high coin of vantage
urges it with tremendous force; for, he
said, the president Obeyed to the let
ter at least one sscriptural injunction:
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,
do It with, thy night"
II was the heavy hand. or big stick"
ri the president, he declared, that had
ariven so many Republic ms 'pell-mell
into the cave of Adullam, where there
is weeping and wailing and crashing
of teeth and much profane swearing"
and. he added, $50 far as he has advo-
Gated Democratic ideas, so far as he
has maUhed wicked Republicans with
his mailed fist or thumped them with
his big stick, he has deserved the I'M
stinted praise of all lovers of our eoun-
try"
Future Must Decide.
No one Iusew, continued Mr.. Clark
whether or not the president was a
ezeat man. He quoted from an old
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