Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-08-26
ACHIEVEMENTS OF
DEMOCRATIC HOUSE
SPEAKER CLARK SUMS THEM UP
IN VALEDICTORY
Declares Democrats Have Formed
the Habit of Victory, and Will
Come Into Full Possession of Gov
eminent Next November.
Associated Press.

Speaker Champ Clark today deliver
ing the valedictory of the demo-
cratic house OF the Sixty-second
congress-, asserted that historians
would declare with absolute truth
that the house democrats Of the 61st
and SIND congresses did great
things" and have made a sweeping
democratic victory approximately
certain, a victory that will give us
the house, the senate and the presi-
dent"
The speaker in a tribute to the
leaders of both parties, declared that
no majority was ever more success
fully led than by Representative
Underwood nor n minority ever
led more ably than by Representa-
tive Mann.
leader Manu." 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"
Speaker Clark said that for years
the democrats had been sneered at
"as the party Of negation, green
hands, in formulating and conduct
ing public business, ridiculed as a
mob, a rabble, without coher-
ence or discipline as militia
fighting regulars, and even
the exact date on which we would
dissovle into warning factions and
go to pieces was set down in type"
But he added, 1.-The democrats
have fought and won like veterans
and constitute as thoroughly a dis
ciplined force as ever appeared in
the house or any other parliamentary
body since parliamentary bodies
were instituted among men, muster
ed our full strength on every impor-
AN proposition and passed two
veto-the first instance of this kind
in the history 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 it's axis, or
slides down the ecliptic" public men
who would escape the peoples
wrath would take to heart the sim
Pile and instructive story of the as
founding 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 proceeded
to revise 1t up.
The speaker expressed thanks,
and the gratitude of the country, to
the brave, wise and patriotic re-
publicans who co%operated with us in
passing good bills. THE secret of
our marvellous success" he said, lis
simple-unity of thought, purpose
and action, frequent counsel to-
gether, a spirit of mutual concilia-
ton, strict adherence TO principle.
with utmost latitude in non-essen-
tials, subordination of individual
desire TO the general party good,
sacrifices of personal ambitions in
the earnest, honest, patriotic en-
deavor to serve the whole people
with whatever of capacity God has
blessed us.
I'VE have won many victories"
he continued, but what is better,
we have formed the habit Of vic
tory" He suggested that Roscoe
Conkling's declaration that General
Grants fame was not earned alone
by things written but by the ard
uous greatness of things done, "fts
our case like a glove"
"Wha the democratic house has
accomplished so far as 1t could for
the amelioration of conditions" said
he, "thwarted as it has been by a
republican president, Is only an
earnest of what we will do when
we come into full possession OF the
three branches of the government.
President Taft vetoed most OF
our bills OF a remedial character, a
prerogative unwisely exercised. He
made his record; we made ours. On
these records we appeal to the coun-
try with absolute confidence that
when the polls close in November
we will have elected a democratic
house and senate, Gov. Woodrow
Wilson TO the presidency and Gov.
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