The Cairo bulletin., 1910-01-09
BIG MEETING :.
!, OF QF|0EMQCRt||I.ES 1
! SIX apnbsED OF. THEN IN MIS-
Y >soURt cELE1RATEA AT
Il KANSAS CITY.
CHAMP. CLARK DECIDED /.
Delivered One of His Characteristic
speeshes--Rainey, of Illinois,
.Spote--Mack Sends 5fs.s y
His Regrets.

Kansas City, Jan S.-Following to-
days harmony conference six hundred
Missouri Democrats enjoyed an elab-
crate Jackson Day banquet at the
Baltimore Hotel tonight.
Representative Champ Clark, mi
nority leader of the house, was the
principal speaker, and following the
sentiment of the speakers of the day
meeting, pleaded for Il united Democ.
racy that would swing Missouri back
into the Democratic column.
Clark urged the necessity of gaining
control of congress, to help in electing
Democratic president in 1912, and
honestly revise the tariff,
Chairman Mack, of the Democratic
national committee, sent a letter OF
regrets.
Representative Rainey Of Illinois,
said in part:
For 35 years, since the ship sub
sidizing period came to such an alb
rupt inglorious end, we have had no
ship subsidies. Notwithstanding the
scandals Of a third of century ago
millionaire mendicants have never
ceased their assaults upon the treas
ury. They are still begging with
more importantly than ever, until the
party in power has pledged itself to
this infamous doctrine.
There is now only one way in
which an American can become the
owner of a vessel and sail her under
the American flag. He must build
her in an American ship yard, or buy
one already built in an American
yard. In other words he must pay
tribute to the trusts.
"Such regulations belong to the
middle ages. The Hanseatic league
was organized and struggled 300
years to overcome similar ideas. Such
laws belong properly to that era of
history when piracy was considered
an honorable occupation.
seas, we ought to adopt the methods
4 seaas, we ought to adopt the methods
adopted by England many years ago.
Repeal our useless navigation laws;
give us free raw material for our
ships; give American capital and
American manhood an opportunity
and this great industry will soon at
tain its proper proportions. Give the
American laborers chance, and the
time is not far distant when our mer'
chant marine will be second to that
of not other country
CHAMP cLARk'S SPEECH.
Kansas City, Jan S.--Champ Clark,
leader of the minort,r in the House
of Representatives was the principal
speaker at a meeting of Missouri
Democrats here tonight, Expressing
the purpose of the gathering, Ar
Clark e"id
This vast convocatou of enthusl
agtic Missouri Democrats is tne first
gua of the campaisa of 1910, whicf
it is hoped will give us a Democrat
House at Washington, the first ste1
to eecting a Democratic president il
1912. We meet under auspices more
favorable than we have been hlesSe.
with since 1891
Thrice is he armed that hath biz
quarrel Just, and alrely no people
ever had juster quarrel than th'
American people now have agains
the powers that he.
"Wc owe it to our country, to th'
state, to ourselves and our posterit,
to sink all personal differences. t
heal all wounds, to exercise mutua
forbearance, to practice self ahnega
tion to the end that this year we ma,
elect a Democratic state ticket
Democratic legislature, DemOcratl
United States senator. and at leas
fifteen Democratic representatives i
congress, and that in 1912, we ma
sweep the state from Iowa to Arbat
sas, and from the Mississippi to th
mouth OF the raging Kaw
"The Republicans won the las
eelction under fa'se preteGses. The
promised a revision of the tari
downward in order to get in, an,
when in, revised it Upward, The a.
orage rate Of the Payne e-Aldrich-Smo
tariff bill is one and II one-hm
dredths per cent higher than the a.
erage rate of the Dingley tariff hi
The people asked for bread and I'll
Aldrich- Cannon crowd gave them
stoue. They asked for fish and AZ
requested to regale themselves wit
a serpent,
in the congressional campaign {
1910. the overshadowing question wi
be whether public men are under an
sort of obligation to tell the trut'
and unless the public conscience
absolutely dead--which | do not b
lieve-the Republicans will recei'
the bloodiest licking they have ha