Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-06-10
COLONEL HARVEY
PRAISES CLARK


an intelligent pen picture of Champ
Clark, Democratic candidate for the
presidential nomination. He says Mr..
Clark's overwhelming array of dele
gates seems already to insure him the
nomination of his party.
Colonel Harvey is an ardent ad-
nirer of Governor Wilson, yet his
sense OF justice obliees him to pre-
sent Mr.. Clark's qualities as eminent
ly fitting him for the presidency.
Colonel Harvey's article is here, in
part, reproduced:
Champ Clark was born in Ander-
son County, Kentucky. on March Z,
1850. From early necessities and ia
tiguing experience Champ Clark de-
rived the intense sympathy with till
ers of the soil which continues to be
the distinguishing trait of his guile
lesg nature.
Champ Clarks early life was so
typical of American development
that it need not be depicted. Crav-
ing for knowledge dominated. Hence
earnest application, first in the COM
mon schools. then In the country COL
lege and State university, finally as
teacher himself and president of a
small college in West Virginia at
tWenty-three
Admitted to the bar at twenty-five
in Bowling Green. Mo-. he be-
came city attorney in 1873, began his
political career as member of the
State Assembly in 1882 was elected
to Congress In 1898, achieved influ-
ence slowly but steadily until he was
chosen to be, first, leader of the MINI
ority and secondly, speaker of the
House by the unanimous voice Of his
party associates.
Grover Cleveland was inauguralet.
tho second time on March 4, 1898. On
the same day Champ Clark began his
long period of service as a Represen-
tative in Congress The Democratic
party had carried the country upon
two vital declarations:
Republican protection is a ff.,uo,
a robbery of the great majority of
the American people for the benefit
of the few
I'VE hold to the use of both gold
and silver as the standard money of
the country, and to the coinage of
both gold and silver without dis
elimination against either metal"
Champ Clark was zealot. nfs
belief in the rightfulness of these two
proposals was as strong as his faith
in the Righteousness of his Maker.
With like vigor and in similar vein
he made his first speech on the tariff
on January Is. 1894. extracts from
which follow:
II am in favor of the Wilson bill
because 1t will render our laborers in
dependent freemen and eager patrons
of our merchants and our farmers,
which God intended them to be, and
not the ragged habitues of soup
houses, to which pitiable condition a
protective tariff has reduced them.
"If the Wilson bill conferred no
other boon upon the people Of Amer
lea than placing salt on the free list,
that alone would be its ample vindi-
cation.
God made salt an absolute neces-
sity to animal life consequently it
is abundant In quantity and univer-
sal; in diffusion. 1t is everywhere
held in solution in the ocean, lakes
and springs. 1t is mingled in every
soil under heaven. God made 1t cheap
and bountiful; the tariff barons make
it scarce and dear.
Pass this bill and give the people
a chance to earn an honest living.
An idle brain is the DEVILS workshop.
1.-THE ideal condition of affairs is
not where there are a few very rich
men and great many very poor
men, but where everybody can find
work to do
The Wilson bill was emasculated by
the Senate, and in 1896 Bryan was
defeated on the silver issue. He and
his supporters insisted and believed
that the election of Mckinley wan
directly attributable to the use of
an enormous corruption fund raised
in the East by Mr.. Hanna.
The Dingley bill was brought for
ward for immediate consideration.
On March 26, while stinging with re-
sentiment, he engaged in a running
debate, In the course of which, egged
on by mischievous Republicans, he
declared:
"Grover Cleveland is not Demo-
crat. AS a Democrat, bred and born,
understanding Its tenets, loving It's
traditions, ready always and every
where to battle for its principles. 1
solemnly declare that he never was a
Democrat.
According to his mugwumpish
notions he could not find within the
confines of the republic Democrat
fit to be secretary of state.
THAT was the beginning Of the end,
and from that day to this he has
been the best friend the Republican
party ever habits most efficient ally
We repudiate him and all his works.
Five days later, he added. bitterly,
Mr.. Chairman, after nine days of
sore travel at last one truth has
been brought forth on the Repubii-
can side of this House, and that
by the gentleman from North Car
olina (Mr. Linney), when he said
that I would destroy every custom
house in America. He is entirely
correct. II I had my way today. sir,
would tear them all down, from
turret to foundation stone, for from
the beginning they have been moth
ing but dens OF robbers"
On May 3, 1893, his throat choking
with rage. Champ Clark spoke lin
part as follows:
There are but two men in all the
hoary registers of time that Cleve-
lands name ought to be associated
Iscarlot and Benedict
Arnold. Shades of Arnold, forgive the
profana tion.
He at least did not hire sub
stittite tn do his fighting The blood |
which he shed at the storming OF |
Quebec and on the heights of Sara
toga was American blood. The shat