Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-06-28
SENATOR REED PRESENTS
NAME OF SPEAKER CLARK

| Senator Reed of Missouri, present
| ing Speaker Champ Clark's name tC
| the convention for the presidential
| nomination, spoke in part as follows
we are here. not to nominate a
candidate, but to select a president
Today we shall contend, each against
the other; tomorrow We must be
brothers In a battle for humanity.
ours is g. high privilege and sol
emn ciity. 1t should he met In spirit
of exalted patriotism. Every consider
alton must be subordinated to the
great cause of the people. We speak
not only for g party, but for a nation,
for mankind and for history. We are
about to dissolve the partnership be-
tween monopoly and government.
Sixteen years this partnership has
levied tribute under the forms of law.
1t has taxed the crust upon the lips
of hunger. 1t has filched from the
pockets of poverty. Monopoly has fl
naneed the campaigns of republican
presidents. 1t has been rewarded by
immunity from punishment for viola
tion of the criminal statutes. The peo-
pie turn to the democratic party for
relief.
Republican candidates have resort
ed to every form of false pretenses,
every trick of demagoguery. In order
to delude the people. one of these
candidates has not hesitated to attack
the courts of law, and to assail the
fundamentals of our government.
we recognize the truth that all
laws and the constitution itself hodid.
when necessary, be amended to meet
changed conditions. But we refuse to
assail the structure of our governme mt
or to incorporate intellectual vagaries
and fantastic pxneripnaufc iptn otlr
Jurisprudence.
I'VE stand for government by law. !
1t is for this very reason we insist
that the law against illegal combina-
tions must be vigorously enforced. |
Under Roosevelt the trusts flourished |
as a green bay tree; under Taft the
tree has grown and spread its
branches until their shadow covers all
the land. Roosevelt's policies in all
their fundamentals have been perpet-
uated by Taft. If either is elected,
these policies will continue.
"The situation is sepic. In such
struggle as lies before us, give me
Tor leader no summer soldier or
patriot Give me no political
liletanti, who comes into camp when
lonors are most ripe to pluck. | want
10 half -fledged chanticleer who IL
,nly just beginning to acquire a
democratic crow Let me rather have
'or general him who has suffered the
of the camp, the tolls OF
he march. the dangers of the field;
who has stood at the bloody angle;
Who has proven his mettle in the bap-
ism of fire.
LET me tell you of such 'edi@r
lie was not born to luxury. He sprung
rom that stock which produced the
81 ha o. |
lie whose hearts are instinct with pa
riotic love of country and liberty.
I'VE hear much toiay of progress
ives. The term has perhaps never
een clearly defined. But If you mean ,
" a progressive one who studies con- !
itions, and recognizing an evil, ]
ravely seeks for and applies a REM !
dy, then | assert that this man has
record. unsurpassed.
HE does not cling to thing simply !
ecause IL Is hoary with age. Neither
III be embrace one because II ls
ew. He is conservative enough to be-
eve that nothing should be destroy
4 merely because IL has lasted long
me. He is progressive enough not to =
eject an idea simply because IL IL not .
Dvered with the mildew of antiquity.
"Twenty-four years ago he placed
pom the statute books OF his state
W guarding the secrets of the ballot. y
lie advocated the direct primary q
stem twenty years ago: and applied o
in his congressional district
.st is thirteen years since he con-
nded for the enactment Of the most II
gid corrupt practice act to be found y
1on the statute books. y
"Five years ago he advocated the b
itiative and referendum In his c~n n
ate He was not. as some others u
.. disturbed lest the people should "
'stroy themselves
As early as 1855 he declared Tor le
e direct election of senator's fiNe u
mes has he voted for that measure. "