Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1911-09-20
WILL ENTER A PROMISED Land
SPEAKER OF HOUSE ASSERTS
. DEMOCRACY is ABOUT TO
COME INTO POWER
MAKES CAMPAIGN MEDICINE
DIssEcTs AT LENGTH EVENTS
OF THE TAFT ADMINS
TRATloN

hdWISHCeUuiS 3, n.y., OcpI. AV.- II
umphant democracy is now the re
sounding theme of every tongue. AT
ter II years of wandering in the will
derness 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 representatives, in an ad
dress here today. Mr.. Clark was
born near Lawrenceburg, March Z,
1850 and until today had not been
there since he taught a country
school.
Continuing his message to demo
cracy the speaker said:
Democrats everywhere are cheer
full, hopeful confident, united and
aggressive, while our republican
friends are sad, hopeless, Respondent,
on the defensive and split into bitter
factions constantly at each others
throats- From ocean 70 ocean they
are hghtins each other like the cats
OF Kilkenny, President Taft leading
the stadpact faction. while Senator
Robert Marion La Follette-"F 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
ing 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 adj
vance our banners, keep everlastingly
pounding them, pass more good D1ils
until we have carried out our entire
program and force the president to
sign or veto meritorious democratic
measures, which are designed to pro
mote the prosperity, happines ana
safety of the American people That
is policy which will win and which
deserves 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
success at the polls. l commend 1t
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 va
rious congressional fights, and said
that "had the republicans in the 61st
congress honestly redeemed the
promises made in the campaign OF
1908. to revise the tariff downward,
they would have made their party In
yincible, and would have secured an
other long lease Of power. The mas
'ses Of the people without regard to
party affiliations are honest and
they demand honesty and candor in
public men"
zone of the chief reasons why we
won in 1910, was that the democrats
and insurgent republicans in congress
kent constantly hammering on the
broken promises of the republican
standpatters, on their gross perfidy
to their pledges, and upon their scorn
Of the righteous demands of the peo-
ple. We appealed to the country on
that record, and won an astonishing
victory, which, let US hope, is only
the beginning of long series OF
victories for lower taxes. for greater
economies and for better govern
ment.
1.-THE new democratic house has
made record so splendid as to sur