Arizona republican., 1910-07-05

New York, July 4.-Champ Clark of Missouri. democratic leader of the house of representatives, attacked the republican party and spoke of the democratic outlook in a speech at the Tammany Hall celebration of July f today. He said:
 Democrats celebrate the birthday of the republic under more favorable cir cumstances this year than at any time since 1893.
 Republican factionists are at each others throats in the house of repre- sentatives, in the senate and through out the land. More power to their arms!
 T bring to you the glad tidings of great joy that the democrats in the house of representatives have laid .aside the weight which for years did so easily beset us, that of fighting each other, and recently have present ed a solid and united front to the com mon enemy. We are no longer a feeble wrangling. querulous. dispirited body but a courageous. vigilant, virile, hope ful militant band. not only ready but eager for the fray.
 Notwithstanding the fact that at .ILs -s-i,el 3sy-s s,f this congress the re- publicans had forty-seven majority in ties in the fourteenth district of Massachusetts and the Rochester dis trict of New York, they still have for ty-three majority. we have fought sev- eral drawn battles with them and have gained some great victOries-nOt- ably on March 19 last. when we per formed the great surgical operation of clipping MT. Speaker CannOn's claws. In that momentous movement in the cause of good government every demo- cratic member did his duty and, in the immortal words of Admiral Schley: There is glory enough for all.' So ut terly were the republicans routed, so thoroughly were they demoralized, that NIr Speaker Cannon publicly declared that there was no longer a republican majority in the house.
 If a member of the sixtieth congress had gone to sleep March 4. 1909, and after the manner of Rip Van Wrinkle, hal slumbered till the evening of June r, 1910, and had then looked into the house and seen it pass a rule by the enormous majority of -201 to 1 to pre- vent committees from pigeon -holing and smothering bills. which resolution I introduced, he would have pinched himself to see if he were awake. Had any man been bold enough in the early days of this congress to predict that such a thing would come to pass be- fore the summer solstice in 1910, he would have been~in imminent danger of being clapped into a straight jacket and a padded cell.
 "The regular republicans gave in their adhesion because they knew full we'll that if they did not do so, we would force it through without their help and in spite of their opposition.
 Most assuredly that was a pitiful conclusion for that vast array of re- publican pie-hunters which. drunk with victory and power, paraded the streets of Washington March f, 1909, with flags flying. drums beating and bugles blowing. Their arrogance then. as their serried ranks swept by and their utter demoralization and humility now recall Byron's splendid poem, The De- struction of Sennacherib.'
 T submit to a candid world that the democrats of the house of representa- tives have set a fine example to the democrats everywhere and deserve well of the country. Our unity of purpose and unity of action should become con- tagious to the end that we may sweep the land from sea to sea and hurl from power those who have abused the sacred trust which the people com mitted to their hands.
 But we must fight if we would win The republicans are so split up that some folks seem to think that all we have to do is to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Such over confidence may cost us dear. The sure way to win is to fight today. to- morrow and every day till the polls close on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
 Special privilege which Jefferson fought in his day and over which An drew Jackson, of blessed and heroic memory, triumphed in his day. is firm ly intrenched in power now through years and years of republican malad-