The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-09-20
DEMOCRATIC SPEAKER OF HOUSE
SAYS DEMOCRACY WILL BE T7i-
UMPHANT NEXT YEAR. :.
SPEECH At LANREACEBURC
Gratis Are Cheerful Everywhere,
While Republicans Of Country Are
Sad, Hopeless and Despondent

Lawrenceburg, Ky, Sept. 20.-"Tri-
umphant democracy is now the re
sounding theme OF every tongue. At
ter Il years of wandering in the wild
erness We this day stand upon 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 rep.
Mr.. Clark was born near Lawrence
burg, March Z, 1850. and until today
had not been there since he taught a
country school.
Continuing his message to democ-
racy the speaker said:
Democrats everywhere are cheer
full, hopeful, confident, united and ag
gpessiye, while our republican friends
are sad, hopeless, respondent, on the
defensive and split into bitter factions
constantly at each others throats
From ocean to ocean they are fight
ing each other like the cats of Kill
kenny. President Taft leading the
standpat faction, while Senator Rob
ert Marion La Toilette, Fighting
Bob as his followers love to call
him, heads the insurgents. With
them it is war to the knife and the
knife to the hilt.
They are so thoroughly destroy
iLg each other that sometimes it
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 de
pending on republican factionalism to
give us the victory next year. On the
contrary we should continue as we
have begun, press forward, advance
our banners, keep everlastingly pound
ing them, pass more good bills until
We have carried out our entire pro-
gram and force the president to sign
or veto meritorious democratic meas
ures which are designed to promote
prosperity, happiness and safety o.
the American people. That is pol
icy which will win and which de-
serves to win
The greatest statesman that ever
lived bar none, Thomas Jefferson,
said: Eternal vigilance is the price
OF liberty 1t is also the price of sue
cess 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-frst
congress honestly redeemed TIE prom
ises made in the campaign of 1908.
to revise the tariff downward, they
would have made their party invinci-
bic, and would have secured another
long lease of power. The masses of
the people without regard TO party
affiliations are honest, and they de-
mand honesty and candor in public
men,"
One of the chief reasons why We
won in 1910, was that the democrats
and insurgent republicans in congress
kept constantly hammering on the
broken promises of the republican
standpatters, on their gross perfidy
toetheir pledges, and upon their scoTn
OF the righteous demands of the peo-
pie. We appealed to the country on
that record and won an astonishing
victory which. let us hope. is only
the beginning of a long series of vic
tories for lower taxes. for greater
economies and for better government
The new democratic house has
made record so, splendid as to usr-
prise our friends and dumbfound our
enemies. No house has in a genera.
ton achieved so much constructive
legislation of such a beneficial char.
acter in so short time. notwithstand
ing the fact that We had been sneer
ed at for years as being a party OF
mere negation and utterly destitute
OF constructive craftsmanship. That