Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12
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All Pike County Turns Out
to Welcomes Speaker Home
and Housewives Come
With Home-fried Chix.


Champ Clark of the house of represen-
tatives was entertained today by the
home folks, all Pike county and the
greater part Of the population OF the
ninth Missouri congressional district
Joining to make ihs homecoming from
Washington an epoch in Missouri his
tory.
It was here that Mr.. Clark landed
from steamboat thirty-six years ago
as young attorney from Kentucky
and throughout these years he has ac-
an acquaintance which IS
legion and loyal. So when it came to
for the, homecoming, ar
were made on as non-par-
tisan basis as possible, and republi-
cans as well as democrats of the dis
trict were represented on the various
Next to Mr.. Clarks address the big
gest thing on the program is the
basket dinner the main part Of which
was home-fried chicken. -Four hun
rred house wives each came with a
well-filled basket.
Illinois and Iowa as well as Mis-
souri, are represented at the celebra-
ton Among the speakers are Repre-
sentatives I. S. Pepper, Iowa, and
Henry r. Rainey, Illinois.
cIark's Address to Home Folks.
Prefacing an address in which he
dealt with vital problems facing the
American people, Speaker Champ
Clark told his friends and neighbors
of the struggles of his
early days and the ties which bound
him to Missouri soil.
He told of starting his Missouri ex-
perience by teaching school thirty-six
years ago, and said:
II came to Louisiana, Mo-, on 80,
borrowed the first time ever saw him
from Judge HI. HI. Priest, now an emil
nent lawyer OF st. Louis, and then
along as city attorney OF
Moberly And that is not the last time
have borrowed from Missourians."
Warming to his subject, the speaker
made a plea for more politics and
more politicians, and forcefully as
serted that upright and honest poll
ticians are the rule, and not the OK
ception in America.
1T is constantly asserted by the un-
thinking that we have too much poll
Tics and too many politicians" said
the speaker. when we reflect that
the word politics in its higher and
nobler sense, means the science Of
government, we must concede that the
more politics we have, the better, for
government affects the happiness and
Of every resident between
The two oceans, and, therefore, we
should all strive to make our govern
ments, national, state and municipal,
as nearly perfect as any human insti-
.uticn can be.
Not Enough Politicians.
''Instead of there being too many
politicians, there are not enough. In a
country whose institutions are based
Upon popular suffrage, every man
should be a politician, and every man
owes portion of his time, energy and
,alents to the service Of the state. 1
10 not mean by that that every man
should run for office. That is a poor
business at best-poor when you sue
poor when you
'ail. I have tried by both extremes Of
'ortune and speak by the card on that
subject.
What do mean is that every citi-
zen should, so far as in him lies, study
he problems which confront us, and
1elp so far as he can, to solve them
or the betterment of government, the
of society, and the per-
oetuity Of the republic. If needs be
1e should become a candidate for
office as duty to his country and his
Kind. Truth to tell, it requires but
title coaxing to induce the average
citizen to run for office.
"Jt is the duty of every citizen to
lttend both the primaries and the
general election to the end that good
md capable men may be selected.
rhe man who fails to do that except
or valid reasons. falls short Of living
up to his privileges and of assuming
lis fair proportion of the govern
mental burden. Neglecting that he is
from setting up lugubrious
lowl. about the unfitness Of officials
md the corruption of politics"
Doomed Man Goes Home to Die.