The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-20
TRIUMPHANT
DEMOCRACY
CLARK'S THEME
Democratic Speaker of House
Chased the Rainbow of
Politics Today H.
STAND ON MOUNT VICTORY
AND VIEW PROMISED LAND

Dissention and Enter and Possess
the Land in 1912 Declares the Demo.
cratic Presidential Candidate.
Lawrenceburg, KY, Sept. 20.-"Tri-
umphant Democracy is now the re-
sounding theme of every tongue. Aft
er seventeen years of wandering in
the wilderness, we this day stand up
on Mount Victory and look into the
promised land which we will enter
and possess in 1912" So declared
Champ Clark, speaker of the national
house of representatives, in an ad-
dress here today. Mr.. Clark was
born near Lawrenceburg, March 4,
1850, and until today, had not been
there since he taught q country
school.
Continuing his message to Democra-
cy, the speaker said: Democrats ev-
erywhere are cheerful, hopeful, con-
fident united and aggressive, while
our Republican friends are sad, hope
less, despondent, on the defensive and
split into bitter factions constantly
to ocean, they are fighting each other
like the cats of Kilkenny. President
Taft leading the standpat faction,
while Senator Robert Marion LaFol-
lette-"Fighting Bob," as his follow
ers love to call him-heads the in
surgents. With them, it is war to
the knife and the knife to the. hilt.
"They are so thoroughly destroying
each other that sometimes 1t seems
that all we have to do is to stand still
and see the salvation of the. Lord;
but wise Democrats are not in favor
Of standing still or Of depending on
Republican factionalism to give us
the victory next year. On the con-
trary, We should contiue as we have
begun, press forward. advance our
banners, keep eyerlastingly pounding
them, pass more good bills until we
have carried out our entire program
and force the president to eign or
veto meritorious Democratic measures
which are designed to promote the
prosperity, happiness and safety Of
the American people. That is policy
win.
'The greatest statesman that ever
lived, bar none, Thomas Jefferson,
said: Eternal vigilance is the price
Of liberty It is also the price Of
success at the polls. commend it
most cheerfully and earnestly to
Democrats all over the land"
Mr.. Clark reviewed conditions in,
both parties, referred to the Demo-
cratic victory Of 1910, and the various
congressional fights, and said that
had the Republicans in the Sixty
first congress honestly redeemed the
promises made in the campaign Of
1908, to revise the tariff downward,
they would have made their party in
vincible. and would have secured an
pther long lease of power. The mass
ss Of the people without regard to
party affiliations are honest, and they
demand honesty and candor in public
men,"
Cause Of Democratic Victory
zone Of the chief reasons why we
won in 1910 was that the Democrats
and insurgent Republicans in con-
sress kept constantly hammering on
The broken promises of the Republic
ran standpatters, on their gross per-
hdy to their pledges, and upon their
Bcorn of the righteous demands of
the people. We appealed to the coun-
try on that record, and won an aston
lshing victory which, let us hope, is
only the beginning Of a long series
Of victories for lower taxes, for great
er economies and for better govern
ment.
"The new Democratic house has
made record SO splendid as to sur
prise our friends and dumbfound our
enemies. No house has in genera
ton achieved SO much constructive
legislation of such a beneficial char
acter in SO short a time, notwith-
standing the fact that we had been
sneered at for years as being q party
of mere negation and utterly desti-
tute Of constructive craftsmanship.
That sneer is now frozen on the faces
Of the sneerers. That gibe disturbs
nobody any more.
"The great battle of 1912 must be
fought on the splendid record of the
Democrats in this congress and upon
that record We can win not only next
year, but for years to come.
DUTY is the sublimest word in our
vocabulary. To do ones duty honest
ly, faithfully, courageously and pa
triotically is the greatest achievement
in craftsmanship or in any other field
Of human endeavor. To their eternal
credit be it said that the Democrats
of the Sixty-second congress at the
extraordinary session discharged their
duty to the utmost, and deserve we'll
of the country"
Mr.. Clark reviewed some of the
party accomplishments, and said: