The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-04
Men liz the Public Eve


actions OF the past, insist on keeping
| in the wake of the successful were
given rebuke at Davenport, Ia, a few
days ago during a visit there by
Speaker Champ Clark, and they were
put to rout by a plain farmer who
! happened to be possessed of a good
| memory.
There was public reception for
Mr.. Clark, and Farmer Jones, always
having taken his Democracy straight,
| went in to look on this latest star of
his party. He found great difficulty,
however, IN getting within seeing dis
lance. Mr.. Clark was surrounded by
men who were not disposed to move
! along. They monopolized his atten-
ton, while Farmer Jones fumed in
vain.
Finally the farmer got within reach
and he found on one side of Mr.. Clark
Democrat who had supported Pal
| mer and Buckner; on the other a
Democrat who had voted for Taft, and
| in front a Democrat who had taken
the stump against Bryan in 1896. Seiz-
ing the anti-Bryan orator by the farm
|
could be heard above everything else.
This is the substance Of what he
said:
| This is, indeed, an suspicious oc-
casion. 1t is inspiring to some of us
who have labored in the vineyard in
sunshine and in storm, to meet face
to face, so peerless leader, so devot
ed Democrat.
Il well recall our feelings one even
when, on picking up a copy of the To-
cal Democratic paper, we found tele-
gram from you-you were speaking, if
l remember rightly, in Indiana-say-
ing, I am making the fight of my life
against Bryan and his fallacies.
Some of those who had surrounded
Mr.. Clark began to edge their way
through the crowl-to evaporate-and
Farmer Jones found himself face to
face, practically alone, with the great
man of his party.
By their victory over the Insurgant
wing of their party at the recent pri-
maries in Virginia, United States
Senators Thomas S. Martin and
Claude A. Swanson, Democrats, are
said to be in absolute control Of the
state. Excepting Pennsylvania, there
is probably no political organization in
the country more effective than that
headed by Martin and Swanson. In
the face of terrific charges the ma
chine rode rough-shod over the pro-
| io1 +ho ctofo nv
greater majority than the machine
| ever piled up in a campaign.
| r. Taggart, the Democratic boss"
of Indiana, recently went to Indiana
polls from French Lick. and there was
an aggregation of Democrats at the
hotel to meet him. He was a day
| late in arriving, which disappointed
many of his political friends, but they
soon forgot that. Here are few ex-
cerpts from one account of the do
| ings"
"The faithful ones fingered on, how
| ever. and were rewarded by the old
Taggart handshake, the Taggart joke,
| the slap ON the shoulder, the familiar
salutation, and the good word,
! straight from the center of Democratic
political sapiency in Indiana.
"I came up to look at some Hol-
stein cows, said Mr.. Taggart. I went
| to the state fair with cows in mind.
| l may buy a milking trio of fine ones
tomorrow before l go back. I have
12O COWS at my French Lick dairy.
| bought a milk cooler today and a corn
harvester, and some other things for
my farm
"Mr. Taggarts progress through
| the Denison lobby was the usual hand.
waging reception At his elbow al
most constantly was a sable Mercury
mings to say: Beg pahdon, sub, but