Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-26
Speaker Clark's Review.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-Speaker
Champ Clark delivered the valedic.
tory of the Democratic house of the
sixty.second congress, asserted that
historians would declare with abso'
lutte truth that the house Democrats
OF the 61st and cd congresses did
great things" and "have made a
sweeping Democratic victory approxi
mately certain. 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 Manu." saia he. has
contested with Leader Underwood
every step Of the long and wearisome
road we have travelled with the stub
born courage of the English squares
at Waterloo. have not always
agreed with Brother Mann-God for
bid-but he lives up fully to his name
He Is in every truth man, Were
1t not for him ! would feel decided
ly lonesome in the speakers chair
As speaker-as dean Of the fac
ulty, SO to speak iMr. Clark said, he
felt very proud of the membership OF
the house and he declared his 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 Democrts had been sneered at
las party of negation, green hands
in formulating and conducting public
business, rdiculed as mob a rabble,
without conference or discipline as
militia fighting regulars, and even
the exact date on which we would
dissolve into warning factions and 60
to pieces was set down in type
But" he added, "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, mustered our
full strength on every important
proposition and passed two great tar.
Ia bills over the presidents veto, the
first instance of the kind in the his
tory Of the republic. |" They had
fought good fight and kept the faith,
he said.
Mr.. Clark said that SO 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 Novem-
ber 1908, when we were so COM
pletely flattened out" The lesson, in
brief, he said, was that the Republi-
cans in order to get in promised to
revise the tariff down, but, being in,
they proceeded to revise it up.
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 mar
velous success he said, lis simple
unity of thought, purpose and action,
frequent counsel together, spirit OF
mutual conciliation, strict adherence
to principle, with utmost latitude in
non-essentials, subordination of in
dividual desire, to the general party
good, sacrifice OF personal ambitions
in the earnest, honest, patriotic en-
deavor tot serve the whole people
with whatever of capacity God has
blessed us.
'fWe have won many victories he
said, "but what is better, we have
formed the habit of victory He
suggested that Roscoe Conkling's de-
claration that General Grants fame
was earned not lone by things writ
ten but by the arduous greatness OF
things done, "fits our case like a
glove"
what the Democratic house ac-
complished, so far as it could for the
amelioration Of conditions" said he,
"thwarted as it has been by a Repub-
lican president, is only an earnest OF
whit We will do when we come into
full possession of the three branches
of government President Taft vetoed
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