The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-25
SPEAKER CLARK
REV|EWS'WORkOF
PRESENT CONGRESS
Addresses Members Of House on
Democracy's Work Just Be-
fore Adjournment
HAS PRAISE FOR ALL
Predicts Election Of Woodrow vii.
son and Democratic Sem
ate and House

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Champ Clark today, delivering the
yaledictory of Sthe Democratic
House of the sixty Second Congress,
asserted that historians would de-
clare with ab5o lute truth that the
House Democratss Of the 61st and
62nd Congresses 'did great things
and have made sweeping DEM
ocratic victory approximately per-
tain, q victory that will give us the
House, the Senate and the Presi-
dent"
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
majority was ever more successful
ly led than by Representative I'm
derwood nor any minority ever led
more ably than by Representative
Mann.
Leader Manu. said he, has
contested with Leader Underwood
every step of the long and weari-
some road We have travelled with
the stubborn courage of the English
squares at Waterloo. | have not al
ways agreed with Brother Mann
God forbid,-but he lives up fully
to his name. He Is in very truth a
man. Were it not for him | would
feel decidedly lonesome in the
Speakers chair"
Proud of House
AS Speaker, - as dean of the fac
ulty, 80 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
eo,gne 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, d
rabDle, without conference or discip.
line as militia fighting regulars, and
even. .Lhe exact date on which we
would dissolve 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 thorough
ly a disciplined force as ever ap-
peared in the House or any other
parliamentary body since parlia-
mentary bodies were instituted
among men, mustered our full
strength on every important propo-
sition 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 it's 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 Nov
ember, 1905, when we were so COM
pletely flattened out" The lesson,
in brief, he said, was that the Re-
publicans in order to get in prom
ised to revise the tariff down, but,
being in, they proceeded to revise IL
up.
Thanks Insurgents.
The Speaker expressed thanks
and the gratitude of the country, to
the brave, wise and patriotic Re-
puolicans who co-operated with us
IN passing good bills. The secret OF
our marvellous success" he said, sis
simple unity of thought, purpose
and action, frequent counsel to.
gether, a spirit of mutual concilia.
tion, strict adherence to principle
with utmost latitude in nom essen
tials, subordination of individual de.
sire, to the general party good, sac.
rifice of personal ambitions in the
earnest. honest, patriotic endeavor
TO serve the whole people with what
ever of capacity God has blessed us
I'VE have won many victories, :
he said, +'but what Is better, we have
formed the habit of victory He
suggested that Roscoe Conkling's
declaration that General Grants
fame was earned not alone by thing:
written. but By the ardaous great