The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-24
Minority Leader of the House
Makes Strong Address to
Missouri Editors.
DECLARES THAT VICTORY
WILL COME WITH WORK
Scores Taft Administration in
Sarcastic Terms and Outlines
Democratic Policy.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 23.-Preliminary to
the opening of the fall campaign in Mis-
souri, nearly 600 Democratic editors
from all parts Of the state attended d
banquet here tonight and heard Con
gresham Champ Clark outline the is
sues. His speech was considered the
keynote of the coming battle. He said
in part;
"The circumstances which surround
us presagc a Democratic victory. Dem
ocrats in the house got together and
fought together during the year 1910
and thereby set a wholesome example
to Democrats throughout the land,
For more than a year the Demo
cratic prospects have grown brighter
until we seem to be on the eve Of a
sweeping victory. We Missourians
have right 10 felicitatc ourselves on
the fact that Missouri led the way III
the Democratic revival by sending my
brother Dickinson to congress at the
mid winter special election by nearly
double the majority received by his la
mented and exceedingly able predCccs
sor, David A. DcArmond, at the last
preceding general election.
Victory in the Air,
eve want To win such a victory this
fall as will put hope into every Demo
cratic heart bctwiXt the two seas, and
make the elections this year and two
years hence duplicates of the elections
in 1890 and 1892. The quarrclS among
the Republicans are similar to what
they were then; conditions are much
the same now AS then; at that time they
were loaded down with a tariff bill Sc
obnoxious that it could not be defended
and they arc in the same wocful plight
now; why, then, should not the results
now be similar To the results thcn'
'lt is SAID that il VIC carry tho
house. we must shoulder the response
hiliticS. OF course we must, and where
is the Democrat craven enough to fear
or shirk responsibility?
Pungent Sarcasm.
"Wc arc admonishcd hat if VIC wil
only .ct this. election 90 by default and
! thereby leave ourselves IN II position oil
no responsibility, the Republicans will
continue 10 fight among themselves
which viii enable us 10 win everything
! in lgl2. If wc are such fools and cow
ards as not 10 be willing TO assume sucl
responsibilities as go with Demo
cratic house, when confronted with d
Republican president and Republican
senate, how can VIC convince men that
we have the sense, courage and pa
/ lllpllNHl " ''ullpl lD' nbu~t. lu' Stu
ate and he presidency for the welfare
and glory OF the repubic2
"1hc preSlden. : cttcr 10 Congress
man William h. Mckinley reads very
much like n motion for a new trial in
a case that has been decided against
i'm. heir promises to revise the tar
| in downward were of their own max.
| ing their failure 10 revise il down
ward WAS LhCir own making. They
stoned away their day of grace, and tc
them is peculiarly applicable the old
saying: The miIl will never grind with
lho water that has passed.
Tariff Aphorisms.
''I viii not weary YOU with quoting
tariff rates Suffice il To say that in
my Judgment, so long as a tariff law
compounded of specific and ad valorem
rates stands ON the statute books levy
ing an average Of l02 per cent on bian
lSets-cheap blankets which everybody
must use-and an average Of LOG per
cent on women s and children s dress
goods and on nearly every manufac.
tured article in proportion, the agita.
tion for reduction in tho tariff will
go on.
cit is constantly charged that the
| Democratic party rs n party OF mega
ton. This is not true. If entrusted
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