The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-09-29
CHAMP CLARK SPEAKS
TO ILLINOIS DEMOCRAT.

EAST St. LOUIS Ill, Sept. 26.-Three
candidates for trustees Of the uniyer-
sity of Illinois Will be nominated and
a platform will be adopted by the I'LL
nois democratic state convention here
this afternoon.
The delegates, numbering LAO, ar
rived last night and this morning.
those from Chicago coming on a spe-
which was brought here by H. N.
Wheeler, Of Quincy. was offered to the
resolutions committee for approval,
The different planks were kept secret.
Miss Anna 2. Nichol, OF Champaign.
and A. L: White, of verrnillion, were
Congressman Henry T. Rainey will be
chairman Of the convention. Congress-
maj Champ Clark Is to be the prin-
cipal speaker.
THE internecine wal Of the repub-
leans has enveloped the whole land
dences OF republican dissolution must
be apparent" said Congressman
Champ Clark, of Missouri, to the dele
gates to the Illinois democratic state
convention here today. He then
enumerated the victories of the dem
ocrats in the recent primaries and
elections and predicted that the next
House of Representatives will be DEM
ocratic.
I'VE cannot depend upon republican
f~actionalism alone to win" continued
the minority leader. THAT may give
us the House this fall without any
effort on U part. but the chances are
that republican factionalism alone
would not give us victories beyond
this rear. We must have a program
of our own, looking towards better
government than the republicans have
given us.
THE republicans abused their priv
i1agaS and wasted fhefr npnprfrnttsaa
In a little more than IL months they
were so utterly demoralized that on
the 18th OF March, 1910. after we
clipped Mr.. Speaker Cannon's claws
he angrily declared that there was no
longer a republican majority in the
House.
THE most potent cause of renl1h-
lican discussions is the tariff question
on which rock parties have split be-
fore The republicans promised to re-
wise the tariff downward In order to
get in; having gotten IN they revised
1t Up.
They nave given absolutely no re-
lief whatever to the consumers of the
land, but most OF the increases wers
real increases. made by such skillfu
artists as Senator Aldrich, and placed
every time where they would dc this
injury to the u Of the land
Some % republicans in the House
and seven republicans in the Senat,
revolted against the stupendous con
fdence game which the %standpat lead,
ers were attempting to play upon tn,
American people, and warned them o
the consequences. Straws shows which
way the wind blows, and a few day,
ago a large straw blew out of Beverl.
in tho shape OF a letter ~announcin,
that henceforth and forever h in
Burgent republican statesmen wou!t
have All equal chance at the pie coun
ter with the regulars.
Last spring. 80 / have been in
formed, when an %insurgent aaked TO
| any place for one OF his constituent
he was informed that he had no RICH
to expect patronage unless he line
up for every legislative proposition
emanating from the administration.
$50 the administration has com
down OF its high horse an instead Q
bullying the Insurgents, Is temptin
them back by offering them a shar
in the sayory fieshpots of Egypt.
But the people OF the United State
deserve to be treated honestly an
fairly. which has not been done in tn
matter of the Payne-Aldrich- Smoc
tariff bill. On the contrary. they wer
taken In and done for"