Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-26
CHAMP CLARK'S VERSION OF THE REGENT FIGHT ON THE RULES As Given in Exclusive Interview the Silver Belt
 Special Washington Correspondent.
By TAV


 l put this question to Champ Clark of Mis- souri, the man who, as minority leader, led his forces through the spectacular fight on the rules in such manner that no democrat finds it necessary to make apologies for the position of the democrats at any period of the great con test Mir. Clark had received me at his apart ments at The Toronto in order that we might go over the events of the preceding forty eight hours step by step, but 1t was the Sunday after noon following the day of the rules fight, and every few moments a message came from some prominent democrat perhaps in a far distant part of the United States, who had gone to the trouble to wire his congratulations to the minor ity leader. During the time I was with Mr. Clark there was practically no cessation of telephone calls
 ''Taken all together" said Mr. Clark, giving me my interview piecemeal, the republicans re- ceived the bloodiest licking in the house on March 19 that any majority party, in any parlia- mentary bodyin the world, ever received.
 ''At the present time they have nominal ma Jority of 45 representatives in the house. Yet we held them in continuous session for 29 hours and then beat them by vote of 191 to 155. This was done on nearly full vote of the house. Ev- cry man was present that could be got there by any means known among men. Letters, tee- grams telephones, and special messengers were used to the limit, and every man who was close enough to Washington to get here, and was not flat on his back sick, was here. Of the 191 votes against Cannonism in the house, all but B were democratic votes.
 s'It was an astounding victory in the cause of good government but does not by any means md hotf1o +bo 1nC+ o+o 4l,4, ,, @l,o vote by which the house refused to accept Mr. Speaker Cannon's resignation, is plain and pos tive notice to the country that Cannonism while badly crippled, still survives. And, if the country wants to get rid of Cannonism, the only thing to do is to elect a democratic house. for if they have a republican house, he will be nom- mated for speaker in republican caucus because the 33 republican insurgents, even if they are all reelected, will be outvoted by the regulars in caucus and the regulars seem to still be for : Uncle Joe
 "Therefore, I repeat the statement that the only way to be sure to get rid of Cannonism is to elect democratic house, which I have no doubt will be done
 '.Ihe two most notable results of the long, continued warfare in this congress which began on the fifteenth of March, are: first that the democrats are thoroughly united; second, that the republicans are thoroughly dsorganized
 "A great may causes have contributed to this state of affairs. The long continued lease of power of the republicans is one of them They came to the conclusion after their tremendous victories under Roosevelt and Taft that they could do anything with absolute impunity and that the people would either indorse or condone it.
 ''This made them utterly reckless and they committed many gross abuses.
 "In the second place Roosevelt educated the people up to expect a thriller every day, and failing to get their daily thriller, they became and disgruntled.
 In the next place the republicans promised to revise the tariff downward, and proceeded to revise it upward. This did not set well on the stomachs of honest and candid republicans
 'There has always been much opposition in the republican party to Aldrich and what he | stands for, and when the president passed eulogy after eulogy upon the Rhode Island statesman it disgusted the people beyond measure.
 'All these factors and others which might be | mentioned are elements in the great victory which we won last week.
 For the first time in many years the demo- rats lined up to man, and if the democrats of he country will do likewise, we will win sweeping victory in November"
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