The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-04-04
Farmer, Teacher, Lawyer.

er Clark should be given right here.
He was born in Kentucky in 1850 and
is therefore siXty-two years old He
was educated in the common schools.
Kentucky university, Bethany college
and the Cincinnati Law school and
became president of Marshall college.
West Virginia. when twenty-three
years old. He has worked on a farm.
taught school, practiced law. been
member of the state legislature, a
presidential elector. delegate to ma
tional conventions. has lectured all
over the country and been a member
of congress since 1898 with the excep-
ton Of two years. He was permanent
! chairman of the Democratic national
convention in 1904 He was married
! to. Genevieve Bennett in 1881. Four
! children have been born TO them. and
| two, a boy and a girl, are now living.
| While he always intended to 90 TO
Missouri when he left Kentucky. for
nearly all emigrating Kentuckians
went to Missouri in those days. he ac-
tually landed in Kansas and was
resident Of that state for nine weeks
At the end Of that time he was dead
broke" and saw no way of mending
his fortunes. Then a college man
wrote him and sent him S25. with a
request to write a graduating speech
He wrote and sent the speech and
with the SD paid his way to Missouri,
going to Moberly. He entered into a
contract to teach school for $50 a
month: but, meeting a man who told
him to try for better position at Lou
isiana, Mo. he went there and became
the principal Of the high school. He
looks upon it as an accident that he
settled in Pike county rather than Ran
dolph.
He has gained the position he holds
by guarding his own self respect and
placing his honor and integrity beyond
the question of any man. He is sin /
cere of purpose. and once convinced of I
what is right he cannot be swerved by I.
any consideration of personal diSad- /
vantage. He does not wabble.
Champ Clark is a man of the peo- I
pie. Not only the plain. homely Anglo /
Saxon words and sentences he uses
proclaim his close relationship to the
great mass of people. but all his pub
lie efforts have been directed toward
their welfare and betterment.
Champ Clark is man without frills.
In his personal characteristics he has
not changed during all the years he
was progressing toward his present po-
sition. Each succeeding honor has
found him unchanged. As he stands
in the shadow of the White House
he is in every essential the same
Champ Clark that went to congress in
1888, broadened. of course, by study
and experience. but with the same
characteristics. the same TEMPERAMENT.
the same strong personality and hearty
humanity that have made friends
wherever he is known.
In an article of this kind-all too
brief-it is impossible TO recount the
many interesting phases in the charac-
Ter of man who has been under ones
for nearly a score of years.
The dominant impression is made by :
Speaker Clark's vigorous intellectuali-
Y, but there are also the strong char
icter, the quaint humor, the fund of
lnecdote and good stories. the broad
and comprehensive knowl-
'dge that combine to make him a de-
ightful companion and attractive ac-
luaintance. A grim smile sometimes
mot often-is about the only indi-
alton of his enjoyment of the many
.ood things he hears and appreciates.
lie never makes a speech without a
ouch of humor in ii. but he is neither
funny man nor a humorst. He
axes life and its responsibilities too {
erlously to be either.
Speaker Clark has made a study of
many questions. and in an interesting +,
7ay he blends history and anecdote.
lie will speak of the enactment of a +
lriff bill in some congress far beyond c
be recollection of any man living and =
ill then show how that bill affected
he political fortunes of the men of the
me. or 1t may he some other act of
ongress or speech. in fact. any in =
dent which made history aud at the
lme time created greatness in some
len and destroyed others.
A Call From the People.
1t has been a fascinating study to