The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
SOUNDS WAR CRY
Speaker Champ Clark HeraIds
Triumphant Democracy
In a Speech at His Old Home in
Kentucky.
SEES PROMISED LAND
After IL Years of Wandering I'm
the Wilderness.
Says His Party Is Cheerful, Hap
py and Confident.
'EES PROMISED LAND

Law NASASepulEs hy.s sept -u.--"Irl-
umphant Democracy is now the re-
sounding cry of every tongue. After
Y years of wandering in the wilder
ness 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
resentatives, in an address here today.
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-
are sad, hopeless, respondent. on the
defensive and split into bitter factions
constantly at each others throats.
From ocean to ocean they are fighting
each other like the cats Of Kilkenny
President Taft IS leading the standpat
faction, while Senator Robert Marion
La Follette-'Fighting Bob as his
followers love to call him-heads tho
insurgents. With them it is war to tho
knife and the knife to the hilt.
'They are so thoroughly destroyiug
each other that sometimes Il 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 Re
publican factionaiism to give US the
victory next year. on the contrary we
should continue as we have begun.
press forward. advance our banners.
keep everlastingly pounding them. pass
more good bills until we have carried
out our entire program and force tho
president to sign or veto meritorious
Democratic measures, which are de-
signed to promote the prosperity, hap
piness and safety of the American
people. That is a policy which viii
win and which deserves to win.
He Quotes Jefferson.
"The greatest statesman that ever
lived, bar none, Thomas Jefferson.
said: Eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty II is also the price Of sue
cess at the polls. I commend IL 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 vari-
Gus congressional fights. and said that
chad the Republicans in the Sixty-first
congress honestly redeemed the prom
ises made in the campaign of 1908.
to revise the tariff downward, they
would have made their party invinc-
ibIe and would have secured another
the people, without regard 70 party
affiliations, are honest. and they de-
mand honesty and candor in public
men.
won in 1910 was that the Democrats
and insurgent Republicans in congress
kept constantly hammering on the
broken promises Of the Republican
on their gross perfidy 10
their pledges. and upon their scorn OF
the righteous demands OF the people.
We appealed to the country on that
record and won an astonishing victory
which. let us hope, is only the begin
ming of a long series of victories for
lower taxes. for greater economies and
for better government
Record OF the House.
sThe new Democratic house has
made a record so splendid as to sur
prise our friends and dumfound our
enemies. no house has in a generation
achieved so much constructive leBis-
1ation of such a beneficial character fra
so short a time, Notwithstanding the
fact that we had been sneered at for
years as being a party of mere mega
ton and utterly destitute OF construc-
tive statesmanship. That sneer is now
frozen on the faces Of the sneerers.
That glib 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
To do ones duty honest
~. faithfully, cOurageously and patri-
otically is the greatest achievement in
statesmanship 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 cN-
traordinary session discharged their
duty to the utmost and deserve well
of the country"
Mr.. Clark reviewed some OF the
party accomplishments and said.
ssWhat we did at the extraordinary
session is only an earnest Of what we
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