The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-24
PAYS TRIBUTE TO BOTH
UNDERWOOD and MANN
No Majority Ever More Successfully
Led, Assuring Victory For Party
Minority Leader Lives up to His
Name, "Is In Truth Man."
by Associated Press.)

Washington, Aug. 24.-Speaker
Champ Clark today delivered the vale
dictory Of the Democratic House of
the Sixty-Second Congress, asserted
that historians would declare with abb
solute truth that the House Demo
Gratis of the 61st and 62nd Congresses
did great things" and "haye made a
sweeping democratic victory approx
imately certain, a 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 to-
ward the final adjournment time, the
Speaker in a tribute to leaders Of
both parties, declared that no ma
jority was ever more successfully led
than by Representative Underwood
nor any minority 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. l have not always agreed
with Brother Mann-God forbid;-but
he lives up fully to his name. He ia
in very truth a man. Were It not for
him would feel decidedly lonesome
in the Speakers chair"
AS Speaker-as dean of the facul-
ty, SO to speak," Mr.. Clark said he
felt very proud of the membership Of
the House and he declared bis belief
that democrats should sit in the seats
of the mighty, hold every coigne OF
vantage and every place OF power.
Speaker Clark said that for years
the democrats had been sHeered at
. "as party of negation, green ......"- ~-".
J. in formulating and conducting public
!, business, :ridiculed as q mob, rabble
!. without conference or discipline as
. militia fighting regulars, and even the
|. exact date on which we would dis
. solve into warning factions and go to
/. pieces was set down in type" But"
. he added, ''the democrats have fought
. and won like veterans and constitute
, as thoroughly a disciplined force as
. ever appeared in the House or any
other parliamentary body since par
liamentary bodies were instituted
among men, mustered our full strength
: on every important proposition and
, passed two great tariff bills over the
Presidents veto, the first instance Of
the kind in the history of the Repub-
lic." They had fought 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 in November.
1908, when we were so completely
flattened out" The lesson, in brief.
he said, was that the Republicans in
order to get in promised to revise the
tariff down, but, being in, they pro-
! ceeded to revise it up.
i The Speaker expressed thanks, and
the gratitude of the country, to "the
, brave, wise and patriotic republicans
who co-operated with US in passing
good bills. The secret Of our marvel
GUS success" he said, sis simple
unity Of thought, purpose and action.
frequent counsel together, q spirit of
! mutual conciliation. strict adherence
to principle. with utmost latitude In
non-essentials, subordination Of indi-
viduai desire. to the general party
g good, sacrifice of personal ambitions
|. in the earnest honest, patriotic en-
d deavor to serve the whole people
+ with whatever of capacity God has
n blessed us.
vi I'VE have won many victories" he
CONTINUED on Pare F'eht -.