The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-13
IROOSEVELT'S BIG
STICK PRAISED BY
CHAMP CLARK
More He Fights the Stronger
He Grows, Eloquent
Miss0urian Says.
|OPINION OF WEATHER
PRECIPITATES A SCRAP
Such a BeIligerent Parsonage,
His Lightest Word Is Chal-
Ienge to Combat.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-Represen-
tatiye Champ Clark, of Missouri, occn-
pied the attention Of the House Of
Representatives for over an hour TO-
day in an address upon the Presidents
recent special message to Congress, the
| financial disturbance of last fall ana
the tariff question.
1t was a Characteristic talk and
aroused the interest of the House TO
a high degree.
In opening Mr.. Clark asserted that
a reasonable view should be taken in
matters touching the President, but
that it had not been done as a rule.
"He is such a belligerent parsonage"
The declared, that his lightest word is
a challenge to combat"
The President, he said. could not
! express his views upon any question
under heaven, "even upon a subject so
prosaic and threadbare as the prospec-
tive state of the weather." without
precipitating a row, his extreme adj
herents swearing that there eve had
been such a weather prophet on earth
since Adam and Eve were driven from
the garden of Eden with flaming
swords from paradise, and his extreme
enemies Vo~ciferating that he knows no
more about the weather than does d
ground hog"
Spectacular Fight.
The Presidents whole public life,
III = <sI.-I- LaI hoo, na4 Iaaer Gun
ccssion of spectacular fights. Nc man
had been more viciously assailed by
men of his own party, and none was
ever, while still in the flesh, so law
ishly lauded by some of the opposing
party.
But he said, "the truth is thai
this extraordinary man has walked
stronger and stronger by waging his
battles"
Even defeat, he declared. had made
him a larger and more commanding
figure $50 he said, amid the swirl
Of things, the deluge of words, the
shouting of the captains, the beating
of tom-toms, the groans of crippled Re-
p%ublicans, the yells of friends and foe"
one who was a personal friend of
Theodore Roosevelt, the man. but u
political opponent of Roosevelt the
politician or statesman, had put little
chance, perhaps of being heard in his
babel of voices"
Admircs President.
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 name
af efpono man t1a prociHanf had nIn-
nouneed virtues and glaring faults of
character; he never had abused him
nor had he grown hysterical in adj
miration of him, but he had supported
him when he was right and fought him
''tooth and nail' when he was wrong.
He believed that was the way the
President wanted to be treated.
HE must, indeed" said Mr.. Clark,
entertain ineffable contempt for the
invertebrate %sycophants WIN tsroNel
before him on all occasions and who,
no matter what he does, or says. throw
high their swcaty caps in the air and
shout i o triuinphe, | o t~riu1npho!'"
Mr.. Clark spoke of the claim that
President Roosevelt was better tilan
his party, (which fact" he estimated,
easily could be without running any
Imminent danger OF being translated
after the manner of Elijah in a chariot
of fire by reason of his goodness"
Not a Democrat.
But, he said, whatever the Presi-
dents virtues or faults, he was not a
Democrat. Occasionally, he said, the
President, very much to the delight of
Democrats and the confusion of Re
p%ublicans. "appropriates or absorbs,
borrows or seizes a Democratic idea"
and from his high eoign of vantage
urged it with tremendous force, for he
said. the President obeyed to the let
ter at least one scrlptural injunction:
Whatsoever thy hand hndeth to do,
do it with thy might 1t was the
heavy hand or "big stick of the Presi-
dent. he declared, that had driven so
many Republicans ''pell NELL into the
cave of Abdullam, where there is
weeping and wailing and gnashing of
teeth and much profane swearing" and,
he added. $50 far as he has advocated
Democratic ideas, so far as he has
mauled wicked Republicans with his
mailed fist or thumped them with his
big stick, he has deserved the un,
stinted praise of all lovers of our coun.
try
Individually he wished the President
we'll until March 4, 1909, when he