Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-09
CLARK CAN'T Be AT LINCOLN
Missourian Who Notified Parker Will
Not See Bryan Shocked.
BOUND BY CHAUTAUoUA LAWS
Besides that, He IL subject 20 Heart
Disease ana Cannot Repeat
the shock as ~
EsoDus.

Champ Clark. sage Of Bowling Green,
Mo. prospective leader of the democratic
majority In the house of representatives
and Chautauqua lecturer. had time to slip
up on A. B. Parker Of Esopus four years
ago and startle him with the
that six million people have nominated
you for the presidency"-the number
shrunk by November-bu he won't have
that much time next Wednesday, when
Congressman Clayton Of Alabama explodes
a similar bomb on the state house grounds
at Lincoln.
But Colonel Clark has a splendid excuse.
Il will lose $50 and get a law suit on
my hands II I go to Mr.. Bryan's nomina-
tion,'' says Clark, who has always had the
reputation Of being a humorist. You see,
it's this way. l am lecturing for one OF
these Chautauqua bureaus and their laws
are like the laws of the Modes and Per-
SLAMS. They exact a rigid fulfillment of
their contracts or they sue"
So. there you are. This Chsutauqua
bureau does not propose to starve the good
people who are hungering for that morsel
of intellectual food which Champ Clark
has promised to hand them on August II,
not even to allow Mr.. Clark to g to
Lincoln.
Afraid of the shock.
There is another rumor bearing on this
matter, but Nj. Clark would not confirm
1t. 1t is said he has a weak heart and was
scarcely able to survive the excitement in
cident to the Parker surprise party. let
alone going through another such ordeal.
But Mr.. Clark plights anew HIS fealty
to the Peerless Leader lest some there be
who may attribute sinister motives to hts
absence from Lincoln next Wednesday.
1T will not make any difference whether
l am at Lincoln Wednesday or not. l en-
dorse Bryan will say anyhow and
he knows il.
Judge Taft's speech OF acceptance would
have been better II it had been condensed
TO about one-fourth OF the space. But he
went to the wrong fellow for a condenser.
1 was chairman of the Parker notification
committee and l determined to make even
a shorter speech than Joe cannon did when
he notified President Roosevelt. 1 took his
speech and studied it and made mine just
100 words shorter"
Clark was in Omaha Saturday in con-
ference with Congressman Hitchcock most
Of the forenoon and the two took lunch at
the Paxton.
Things In Missouri.
Il left Missouri the day OF the primaries
on a lecturing tour and only know Of the
results from the press reports. 1 do not
think that the primary results will have
any effect on the senatorial question as
between Senator Stone and Governor
Folk" said Mr.. Clark. Senator Stone,
see by the morning papers, says that the
primaries do not indicate anything, and
1 am Of the same way OF thinking. The
whole situation was badly mixed. And
some of both the senatorial aspirants'
friends supported Cowherd and Wallace
and vice versa. Ball @as the second man.
with Wallace third and Stapel fourth. ]
do not think the lines were drawn on the
senatorship at all.
"Oh. yes, Missouri is going democratic
this fall by 1000. We will elect fifteen out
OF the sixteen congressman and will elect
a democratic legislature that will choose
a democratic senator. The Missouri demo-
Gratis are queer people. About 1900 OF
them didn't vote last year. But they can
all read and write and If they cannot get
what they want they won't play. Bryan
will carry the state by 1000"