Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-10
CLARK TALKS TO DEMOCRATS
House Floor Leader Speaks at Jack.
son Day Banquet at KawtOwn.
CHAIRMAN MACK SENDS LETTER
Head Of National COmmittee Urges
Necessity of Getting the state
Back on the Democratic
Map.

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 9.-Following
their harmony conference Of Saturday 600
Missouri democrats sat down to an
elaborate Jackson day banquet at the
Baltimore hotel tonight.
Representative Champ Clark, minority
leader in the national house of represen-
~tatives was the principal speaker at the
dinner and following the sentiment Of the
speakers of the day meeting he pleaded
for a united democracy that should swing
Missouri back into the democratic col
umn.l
Mr.. Clark also urged the necessity of
gaining control of congress. This he said
was necessary not only to help In elect
ing a democratic president in 1910, but to
effect an honest revision of the tariff.
Norman F.. Mack, chairman of the
national commission sent a letter Of re-
greet In which he predicted that his party
would control the next house Of repre-
sentatives.
representative Henry T. Rainey of Illi-
nois declared strongly against a ship
subsidy and insisted that present ship
ping regulations handicapped American
ship owners.
Mr.. Clark said:
This vast convocation of enthusiastic
missouri democrats is the first gun Of
the campaign of 1910. which 1t is hoped
Will give us a democratic house at WASH
Inston' the first step to %electing a demo-
cratic president in 1912. We meet under
auspices more favorable than we have
oeen blessed with since 1894.
'Ihrice is he armed, that hath his
quarrel just" and surely no people ever
mad a juster quarrel thar the American
people now have against the powers
The republicans won the last election
unuer raise pretenses. They promised a
revision of the tariff downward in order
| ~ KeI m and Tuhnn In "a a ----.
Inc average rate of the Payne-Aldrich-
smoot tariff bill is III per cent higher
man the average rate of the Dingley
IHriIt hl!l. The people asked Tor bread
ana the Aldrich-Cannon crowd gave
mem a stone. They asked for a fish
With are requested to regale themselves
In the congressional campaign OF 1910. the
0NSIShadowing question will be whether
PUBIC men are under any sort of obliga-
uon to tell the truth, and unless the public
CONSCIENCE Is absolutely ~dead-which 1 do
10 pelleXe-the republicans will receive
ne oioodiest licking they have had since
ioSO Are ante-election promises thing to
pe depended upon and lived up to, or are
they a mere trick with which to deceive
tne unwary, enticing bats with which to
eaten gudgeons? II the latter, then politics
mas FALLEN to a low estate and a contempt
ible condition.
II will not help them any, when ar
ralgned at the bar of public opinion, to
say that the republican platform simply
oetIsreu Lor tariff revision, without indi-
catlng whether that revision was to be
up or down, for their standard bearer, Hon
orable William H. Taft, everywhere inter-
preted that platform declaration as mean
ing a downward. revision, and on that in
depreciation he won the greatest prize
known among men.
In asking for tariff revision and at the
same time continuing the republicans in
power, the American voters repeated the
condemned performance of Jumping out Of
the trying pan into the fire. Their last
condition is worse than the first
Ihls Payne-Aldrich-Smoot monstrosity
I q a trade war with every commer-
clai nation under heaven.
Referring to political conventions in Mis-
souri,, the speaker said that while locusts
come. once in every seventeen years, a re-
publican governor of Missouri appears bhty
every forty years, and that Governor Had
ley is the last republican governor Of Mis-
souri, that most of us will ever see. Con-
%tinuing, Mr.. Clark said:
stand for the supremacy and solidarity
OF the democratic party in Missouri n
LOT its supremacy as opposed to the per-
sonal interest and ambition of any man or
set OF men, including my own personal in
terests ana ambitions. The welfare of the
party is to the welfare Of any
man or coterie of men,
This great mid meeting of Missouri
democrats augcrs well for the future,
Unity of purpose and unity of action shouId
be our shlbboleths In the impending cam
paign and through all the years that
stretch before us. AS proved by the vote
In 1908 on representatives in congress and
upon all state officers below lieutenant
governor Missouri is a democratic state,
ana IL is one or the anomalies of our poll
tics that 1t now has a republican governor.
a republican lieutenant governor, one re-
publican United States senator, and six
republican representatives in congress.
Letter from Chairman Mack.
Norman e. Mack, chairman of the Demo-
cratic National committee, was unable to
be present at the Jackson Day banquet of
Missouri democrats here tonight. In a let
ter expressing his regrest at being unable
to attend, Mr.. Mack urged the democrats
to get together for the fall elections. Mr..
Mack said he believed the party would
meet with great success in the congress
sional elections next November, which
would aid the democrats in the national
election two years from that time. Mr..
Mack in his letter said in part:
1 am glad to see the democrats of
your state getting together to celebrate
Jacksons anniversary. All about the
country the anniversary is being celebrated
this year as never before and this is a
good sign. l firmly believe that the year
lSlO, upon which we are just entering,
VIII be a banner year for democracy, and
that we will meet with great success in the
congressional elections next November.
Never was there a time in the history
aggressive, fighting democracy, a Jackson
democracy, was more urgent than today.
NY COnCtpllOn Oh uemOCraGy'8 highest aim
Is to secure to the individual citizen the
highest possible benefit of popular govern
ment. When, class, privilege and favor en-
trench themselves as factors in the oper-
alton OF that government surely those OF
us who are democrats have our work cut
out, We may differ among ourselves as
to the best way to go about our task, but
the traditions of the party established
by Jefferson and Jackson nave made II
possible to have a policy on which we
can all agree. "
Kindly permit me in this way TO extend
to the militant democracy of Missouri INV
deep appreciation of the honor OF the in
vitatior TO be one OF your speakers on this
occasion.
senRtOr Gore al jackson, Mich.
JACKSON, Mich, Jan. Sat the fortv-
sixth annual banquet OF the Andrew Jack
son society today, Senator Gore of okla
homa urged democrats to support insurgent
republicans in districts where they were
threatened by the regulars. He eulogized
the early works Of the republican party.
but asserted that a great gulf separated
Lincoln and Taft. He denounced the shin
subsidy bill of the administration as bare
faced graft"
SEES BOOST FOR HOOsEVELT
Champ Clark Says PinchOt DismisaaI
VIII Make Him Candidate.
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