The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-14
REPUBLICANS TOUCHED
UP BY CHAMP CLARK
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saying, Count no man happy till he
sane rule to pronounce no man great
until he was in his grave. I'VE have
not enough perspective necessary to fix
his status in history" he said, "and it
is sheer folly to attempt it,
Individually he wished the president
well until March 4, 1909, when, he
hoped, the president would quit for
ever, "fOr no president will ever be
elected to a third term till the repub
lie is on its last legs"
Every one could be lest, he main
tanned, even if he could not be great,
and" he added IF you Republican
big-wigs would be candid, you would
confess that you are not half so much
enamored over the president as you
seem to be-"
The Republicans. he declared, grew
red in the face lauding the president
to the skies, for he is still the dis
penser-in-chief of pie" A Republican
statesman bereft of pie, said he, was "a
spectacle to make the angels weep,
but he said, when he saw Republic
ans trying to apotheOsize him by mere
lip-service,' it seemed to him, the lady
doth protest too much q"
Republican Majority Reduced.
Referring TO the last campaign, Mr..
Clark charged that "sundry Republican
representatives sought and obtained
from the president certificates of Re-
publican good character to help them
pull through. So doubtful were the
Republican managers of results in the
last campaign, said Mr.. Clark, that the
president was induced to write the
famous letter to My Dear Mr.. Wat
IL L..
dOrsement of all Republican candidates
for congress, except the unfortunate
Mr.. Wadsworth."
Notwithstanding that letter, he said,
the Republican majority i'm the hous
had been reduced from ia to 50, He
depicted Speaker Cannon, to whom he
referred as :Uncle joe" studying the
returns, repeating the sad exclamation
of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, when, sur
veying a hard won field, he said, AN
other such victory and we are undOne."
Addressing himself still further to
the Republicans, Mr.. Clark exclaimed:
Signs of Democratic Victory.
And the signs of the times indicate
that even the ready letter writer in the
White house cannot write enough let
tiers between this and the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November
to give you another majority in this
house"
He predicted that on March 4, 1909,
a Democratic president would be in
augurated, backed by such Demo-
cratic majority in this house as will
induce even a Republican senate TO en-
act into law the peoples Will"
Coming to the subject of the recent
financial disturbance, Mr. Clark laid it
at the door of the Republicans. The
self-constituted defenders of the presi-
dent, he said, charged that "Harri-
man and his crowd" did it, while, on
the other hand, Hartman and his
crowd swear that the president and
his crowd did it,"
1t did not become an innocent by
stander. he asserted, to decide which
were the ideal Republicans. Zone thing
we do know" he said, land that is that
Mr.. Hartman was delegate to the
last Republican national convention
which nominated Col. Roosevelt by a
unanimous vote and that he was alb
eral contributor to the Republican
campaign fund"
my Dear Hartman"
It therefore, he said. did not lie i'm
the mouths of Republicans to disomn
him for he was once My Dear Mr..
Hartman" but now he was another
sort of Hartman, beginning with
big, big d " but he charged Hartman
was and is "a Republican of high de-
gree"
He quoted from utterances of Form
er Treasurer Shaw that the money
stringency of 1907 was the worst the
world ever had witnessed but he said
Mr.. Shaw might truthfully have add
ed:
1T lis a Republican panic and gives
the lie direct to the Republican plat
form declaration of 1904 that "a Re-
publican tariff is always followed by
business prosperity and a Democratic |
tariff by business adversely That
fake is exploded"
Hepburn's Threat.
Much attention was paid by Mr..
Clark TO the charge that NJ, IJenh,,r,, |