The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-06-08

never was useful and sometimes II
has not been even ornamental"
We have several times pointed out
that Mr.. Clark has never shown as
much interest in any important bill
as he has in getting offices for his
supporters, pensions for voters, and
government appropriations for his
neighborhood. This state of mind IS
accompanied by an intense hostility
to any reduction in the spoils system
Here is an expression: THE civil
service system is the greatest and
or proposed in a civilized country
So great in his belief in the power OF
local interest that he said: Give us
as much coddling for three years as
Indiana and Ohio, TO say nothing of
New York, have received annually
for a quarter of a century, and the
youngest child now slumbering on
his mothers breast though he should
double-discount the remarkable age
of Methuselah, wouldn't live long
enough to see another republican
presidential elector west of the Wa
bash river What he desired was
frankly stated thus: I'VE want true
civil service accomplished by placing
only democrats on guard from
Martha's vineyard to the Aleutian is
lands. and from the Lake of the
Woods to the Dry Tortugas." One of
the reasons for his violence toward
failure to use all of his appointments
to strengthen his own party. "On
March s, 1898, in his first official act.
he startled all the democrats in the
land and great many republicans
by appointing to the highest office
within his gift sore-head republi-
can. According to his mugwumpish
notions he could not find within the
confines Of the republic a democrat TT
to be secretary of state"
Clark's famous statement about
Cleveland and a certain character in
the Bible. gains added interest from
the present close alliance between
Clark and Hearst, Hearst having been
busy lately likening Woodrow Wilson
to this same Judas. Clark said:
There are but two men in all the
hoary registers of time that Cleve-
lands name ought to be associated
with-Judas Iscariot and Benedict
Arnold. Shades of Arnold, forgive
the PROCLAMATION. | ought to
beg pardon of Judas Iscariot because
after his treason he did have the
grace to go out and hang himself It
| is sickening to think OF Cleveland. .
The alliance between Clark and
Hearst is also amusing in view OF the
mean and unconscientious distortion
that Hearst is accomplishing with
woodrow Wilson's convictions about
immigration. Clark's views on i'm
migration are as follows:
II believe that the wise position to
take with reference to the matter is
TO adopt an educational test that will
largely eliminate the races from the
Mediterranean Europe and will not
interfere to any material extent with
the races OF northern Europe comma
in here-races of whom we can make
good citizens"
There are things to say about Mr..
Clark of greater Importance. These,
however, illustrate our conviction
that the speaker, however amiable,
however good mixer. and however
satisfactory to politicians, to big
business, and to William Randolph
Hearst, is scarcely a man to lead a
successful revolt against a party
which can be overcome only by the
lcapture of several of the largest
northern states that usually go re-
publican in presidential years.
lparty which includes in its ranks 3
large majority of the ablest progress
lsives now prominent in the public
Ieye.-Collier's Weekly
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