Bisbee daily review., 1912-06-28
CHAMP CLARK
 PROGRESSIVE
The Lion of Democracy Who Has Fought a Thou sand Battles and Never
 Lowered His Flag

Senator Reed. of Missouri, pre- senting Speaker Champ Clark's name to the convention for the presidential nomination spoke in part as follows
 We are here, not to nominate q candidate, but to select a president. Today We shall contend. each against the other: tomorrow we must be efotbers in a battle for humanity.
 Ours is high privilege and sol emn duty. It should be met in a spirit of exalted patriotism. Every consideration must be subordinated to the great cause of the people. We 1 speak not only for a party, but for a nation, for mankind and for history. We ale,apout to dissolve the partner ship between monopoly and govern ment.
 Sixteen years this partnership has ! levied tribute under the forms of .aw. It has taxed the crust upon the lips of hunger. II has filchei from the pockets of poverty. Monopoly has l financed the campaigns of republican ] presidents. It has been rewarded by Z immunity from punishment for vio ! lation or the criminal statutes. The people turn to the democratic party | for relief.
 Tricky Republicans | 'RepuDllean candidates have re- sored tc every form of false pre- | lenses, every trick of demagoguery. In order to delude the people, one or these candidates has not hesitated to attack the courts of law and to as- l sail the fundamentals of our govern ment
 We recognize the truth that all < laws and the constitution itself should when necessary be amended to meet changed conditions. But we refuse to assafl the structure of our gov ernment or to incorporate intellect ual vagaries and fantastic experi- ments into our jurisprudence. 1 We stand for government by law. | 1t is for this very reason we insist | that the law against illegal comhina- | tions must be vigorously enforced. Under Roosevelt the trusts flourished as a green bay tree; under Taft the l tree has grown and spread it's branch es until their shadow covers all the land. Rooseyelts policies in all their fundamentals have been perpetuated i by Taft. If either is elected, these ! policies will continue.
 From The People l "The situation is epic. In such struggle as lies before us, give me | for a leader no summer soldier or sunshine patriot Give me no politi- cal tliletanti, who comes into camp when honors are most ripe to pluck i want no halsiledged chanticleer ! who is only just beginning to acquire a democratic crow. Let me rather have for a general him who has sui 1 fered the hardships of the camp, the { tolls of the march, the daRgers of the | field: who has stood at the bloody l angle; who has proven his mettle in the baptism of fire.
 1 Let me tell you of such leader. l He was not born to luxury. He l sprung from that stock which pro duced the men who subdued the vest, i the people whose hearts are instinct with patriotic love of country and i liberty.
 We hear much today of progress sives. The term has perhaps never been clearly defined. But if you mean 1 by a progressive one who studies con ditions, and recognizing an evil brave 1 Iy seeks for and applies a remedy. ! then I assert that this man has a rec ord unsurpassed.
 He does not cling to a thing sim l ply because it is hoary with age i Neither will he embrace one because ] it is new. He is conservative enough
 to believe that nothing should be ' destroyed merely because t has last i ed a long time. He Is progressive
 enough not to reject an idea simply because it is not covered with the mfldew of antiquity.
 | ciark's Past Work
 "Twenty-four years ago he placed upon the statute books Of his state a 1 law guarding the secrets of the bal lot.
 He advocated the direct primsry system twenty years ago; and ap- piled it in kfs congressional district.
 '4t is thirteen years since he con tended for the enactment of the most rigid corrupt practice act to be found upon the statute books.
 Five years ago he advocated the | initiative and referendum in bis own state. He was not. as some others are. disturbed lest the people should destroy themselves
 As early as 1885 he declared for the direct election Of senators. Five times he has voted for that measure, and for years in congress has been its distinguished advocate. During all Of his long public ser vice he has been one of the most valiant champions of tarin reform.
 T place before you this record. made not when lust of office lures, but written in the story of the years, and graven upon the vnblic statutes of the country, and ! challenge com parisOn-
 Always DercFat
 ~AT his life this man has been a democrat. He has not bsSen an oc- casfonal democrat He doeN not he long tc that class ,of democrSta who steal cut O nights. sleep in sSsanse | political beds. and then come trailing home about the time they can smell