The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-22

|''iNSdi s'iS iHioIIldlon from It's owr
{ people who, while jealous of their owr
rights. are ever ready to concede
something to others?
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I GREAT DAY FOR CHAMP CLARK.
! Senator Robert l. Taylor, of Ten
/ nessee, "Fiddlng Bob" as the irrever
ent call him, has not changed the
opinion expressed by him two months
ago that the Democratic National Con-
vention will nominate Champ Clark
! Tor Preside:t. and that the people will
! elect him. Watching all the shifting
| currents OF public opinion with the
| wisdom of the trained politician. he
mas been only strengthened In the
conviction which led me to declare my
self for Clark. The work of the extra
session is indelible in history, and
to my mind Clark's share In 1t is
spiendidly to his credit and argues
victory for the National Democratic
party. There IS no man in all this coun-
try who more shrewdlv understands
what the Democratic party is lighting
| for and what 1t should fight for than
Champ Clark"
This Is interesting, IL not conclusive
and there can be no question that Mr..
| Clark looms larger now as 4 Presi-
| Dental nag than at any time since
| the entries began for the race. He is
progressive. we have thought at times
that he was a bit too progressive. he
has been in too intimate touch with
| Mr.. Bryans vegaries in our opinion.
he has made some very foolish
| speeches, as, for example, his talk
about Canadian annexation when the
reciprocity treaty was hanging in the
balance; but there can be o doubt OF
his honesty. his courage. his never
| dying faith in the Democratic party
as the only politica! organization un.
! der the sun that can save government
OF the people, for the people, by the
J people.
Mr.. Clark is native of Kentucky.
He moved TO Missouri thirty-fve years
ago On Wednesday he visited his
birthplace near Lawrenceburg. in An
n
great multitude ( men. women and
children, who We're brought into n
proper frame Of mind by Eve thou
sand gallons OF "burgoo." AS the meet
ing took place in Kentucky it should
be explained, probably, that "burgoo"
Is not something TO drink. unless 1t
can he said that we drink and do not
eat soup upon which point we are
not entirely clear. The Century Die
| uonary says that "burgoo" is n kind
OF soup made with many different
kinds of meat and vegetables. highly
peppered and served hot: popular in
! Kentucky and other places, especially
/ at barbecues, picnics and other out
! door feasts." 1t would appear from
| this description that ii is something
like our own unapproachable Bruins
Wick Stew than which there is no
/ more filling and muscle making and
soul-uplifting democratic dish. when
properly prepared by aristocratic
cooks to he found in any of the eat
ing-places of the civilized world.
Everybody was glad to. see The
| Speaker; 1t was howdyc, howdye. how
de-do all day long, and when Mr.
Clark got through with his sneecb
there We're not enough fragments OF
the Republican party left to fill one
basket. He was particularly happy
in what he said 'Nout the triumphant
Democracy--"after seventeen years of
wandering in the wilderness, we this
day stand upon Mount Victory and
look into the Promised Land which we
VIII enter in 1912: but Mr. Clark was
happier still in his arraignment OF the
republican party for it's broken prom
uses It's gross perfdy in failing to per-
form its pledges to itself and Tho
country, and its. sworn OF the righteous
demands OF the people
Warming UP to his subject and mt
ting his finger directly upon the to,n,
IN the harness OF the fairest-mindaa
Republican who has ever sat in tho
White House Mr.. Clark declared tina,
the assumption that Congress shah
neither consider nor pass tarIT hi,
uniil recommended by the President is
not only absurd. but is revolutionary
utterly su6versive OF our theory OF
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