The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-09-04
LAUL)E[) By CLARK
TIE EGJSE DEMOCRATS DID
GREAT Things SAYS TIE

GREAT ihINGS SAfS iEE
SPEAKER OF TIE BODY
Says the Work Of the Democrats In
the House Of Representatives Will
Give the Party the House, the Sen.
ate and the President In the Next
Election.
Speaker Champ Clark Saturday,
delivering tie valedictory o. the
Democratic House of the sixty-second
congress. asserted that historians
would declare with absolute truth
that the House Democrats Of the SIX
ty-frst and skty-second congresses
"did great things" and "have made a
sweeping Democratic victory approx
mately certain, victory that will
give US the House, the Senate and
the president"
Dramatically addressing his col
leagues while the clock across the
House chamber was slowly moving
toward the final adjournment time,
the speaker, in tribute TO leaders of
both parties, declared that no major
ity was ever more successfully led
than by Representative Underwood,
nor any minority ever led more ably
than by Representative Mann.
Leader Manu." said he, "nas 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
but he lives up fully to his name.
He Is n very truth man Were 1t
not for him I would feel decidedly
lonesome IN the speakers chair"
AS speaker-as dean of the tac-
ulty, SO to speak'-Mr. Clark said
he felt very proud of the membership
Of the House, and he declared his be-
lief that Democrats should sit in the
seats Of the mighty, hold every
colsne Of vantage and every place OF
power.
Speaker Clark said that for years
the Democrats had been sneered at
"as party Of negation. green hands
in formulating and conducting pub
lie business, ridiculed as a mob, a
rabtle, without conference or discip-
line as militia fighting regulars, and
even exact date on which we would
dissolve into waring factions and go
to pieces was set down in tpye".
But" he added, ''the Democrats
have fought and won like veterans
and constitute thoroughly discip-
lined force as ever appeared In the
House or any other parliamentary
body since parliamentary bodies were
instituted among men, mustered our
full strength on every important prop
osltion and passed two great, tariff
bills over the presidents veto, the
first instance Of the kind In the his
tory Of the republic" They had
fought a good fight and kept the
faith, he said.
Mr.. Clark said that $50 long as
the earth spins upon its axis or slides
down the ecliptic," public men who
would escape the peoples wrath
would take to heart the simple and
Instructive story Of the astounding
change in the political situation,
"since that melancholy day II Nov
ember, 1908. when we were so COM
pletely 1attened out" The lesson,
In brief, he said, was that the Repu5-
l!cans. IN order to get In, promised to
revise the tariff 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 Repubi-
cans who co-operated with Us IN pass
ing good bills. The secret OF cur
marvellous success" he said, "is sim
ple-unity Of thought, purpose and
action, frequent counsel together, q
spirit OF mutual conciliation, strict
adherence to principle, with tmcst
latitude in pon-essential, su5ordina-
ton Of individual desire to the gen
eral party good. sacrifice OF personal
ambitions IN the earnest, honest, pa
trtotic endeavor to serve the whole
people with whatever Of capacity God
has blessed US.
1--WE have won many victories" he
said, "but what is better, We have
formed the habit of victory" He sug-
gested that Roscoe Conkling's dec!a-
ration that General Grants fame was
earned not alone by things written.
but by the arduous greatness OF
things done, "fts our case Ike a
glove. =.
What the Democratic House ac-
complished, SO far as it could for the
amelioration of conditions" said he,
"thwarted, as it has been, by a Re-
publican president, is only an earnest
of what We will do when we come IN
to full possession of the three
branches Of government. President
TAFT vetoed most OF our DI!IS OF
remedical character, a prerogatiVe
unwisely exercised. He made his re-
cord; we made ours. On these rec
ords ne appeal to the country with
absolute confidence that when the
polls close in November We will have
elected a Democratic House and Sen
ate. Governor Woodrow Wilson to
the presidency and Governor Mar
shall to the vice-2residency-ccn-
summaticns deroutly to be wished,
which we believe and hope will prove
OF i1estirrable and enduring benefit
to the entire American people, of
whatever persuasion, religious or po-
lItical."
Saves Her Life and Weds.
His heroic rescue of young wo-
man who was about to drown in the
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