The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-25
CLARK REVIEWS THE WORK OF THE HOUSE No Majority Ever More Sue
 cessfully Led HABIT OF VICTORY
Work of Present Body Merely an Earnest of Wnat Democrats Will Do When They Control Three
 Branches of Government

Washington. August 2i.-speafer Champ Clark today delivering the vale dictory of the democratic House of the Sixty-second Congress, asserted that historians would declare with absolute truth that the House democrats of the sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses "did great things and have made q sweeping democratic victory approxi- mately certain, a victory that will give us the House, the Senate and the Pres ident."
 Tribute to Both Leaders
 Dramatically addressing his col leagues while the clock across the House chamber was slowly moving to- ward the final adjournment time, the speaker in a tribute to leaders of both parties, declared that no majority was ever more successfully led than by Representative Underwood nor any mi nority ever led more ably than by Representative Mann
 Leader Mann. said he, 'has con tested with Leader Underwood every step of the long and wearisome road we have travelled with the stubborn courage of the English squares at Waterloo have not always agreed with Brother Mann-God forbid-bnt he lives Up fully to his name. He is in very truth mar. Were 1t not for him 1 would feel decid- odly lonesome in the speakers chair. AS speaker-as dean of the faculty so to speak Mir Clark said. he felt very proud of the membership of the Honse and he declared his belief that democrats ,.f flo forlaf U hold every coigne of vantage and every place of power.
 Speaker Clark said that for years the democrats had been sneered at as a party of negation, green hands in for mulating and conducting public business, rsdiculed as mob, a rabble, without coherenee or discipline as militia fighting regulars, and even the exact date on which we would dissolve into warning factions and go to pieces was set down ir type'' .'Butr he added, "the demo- crats have fought and won like veterans and constitute as thoroughly discip- lined force as ever appeared in the House or any other parliamentary body since parliamentary bodies were insti- stuted. among men. mustered our fu,i strength on every important proposition and passed two great tariff bills over the Presidents veto, the first instance Of the Kind Tn the nlStol9 Oi be 'rP"piN'
 Have Fought Good Fight
 They had fought good fight and kept the faith. he said.
 MT. Clark said that so long as the earth spins upon It's axis or slides down the ecliptic' public men who would es- cape the peoples wrath would take to heart the simple and instructive story of the astounding change in the political sit iuatfon since that melancholy day in Mo- yernber. 1908. when we were so completely flattened out" The lesson In brief, he said. was that the republicans in order to ret in promised to revise the tarin down. but, being in, they proceeded to revise it up.
 The speaker expressed thanks. and the gratitude of the country to ''the brave, wise and patriotic republicans who CO., operated with tis in passing good bills. The secret of our marvellous success '' he said. lis simpie-unity of thought, pur- pose and action, frequent counsel to- gether, a spirit of mutual conciliation. strict adherence to principle. with utmost latitude in non-essentials, subordination of individual desire, to the general party good, sacrifices of personal ambitions Tn the earnest. honest, patriotic endeavor to serve the whole people with whatever of capacity God has blessed us.
 Habit of Victory
 we have won many victories" he said. but what is better. we have formed the fabit of victory" He suggested that Roscoe Conklings declaration that Gem
 
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