The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-08-25
DEMOCRATS OF HOUSE IN SIXTY
FIRST AND slxTY.sEcoND CON-
CROSSES DID GREAT THINGS.
NOT PARTY OF NEGATION'
Thanked Republican Allies for Assis-
tance in Revision of Tariff Down
ward-House Acknowledgements
tive Mann Discussed.

Washington, Aug. 24.-Sp aakel
Champ Clark today, delivering the
valedictory of the democratic house
OF the sixty second congress, asserted
that historians would declare with alb
sClutn II .th that the house demoC:a ,
OF TIE SiXty-first and Sixty second
GO :gresses did great tnings and have
made Il swet ping democratic victory
approximately certain, a victory thai
will give us the house, the senate anG
the president"
Dramatically addressing his col
leagues NAlc the clock across the
house chamber was slowly moving to
ward the final adjournment time. de-
clared That no majority was ever
more successfully led than by Repre-
sentative Underwood, nor any minor
ity ever led more ably than by Rep
resentative Mann.
Leader Manu." said he, "has con-
tested with Leader Underwood every
step of the long and wearisome road
we have travelled with the stubborn
courage of the English squares at Wa
terloo. | have not always agreed with
Brother Mann-God forbid but he
lives up fully to his name. He is in
very truth a man. Were it not for
him l would feel decidedly lonesome
in the speakers chair"
AS speaker, as dean of the faculty
so to speak," Mr.. Clark said, he felt
proud of the membership of the house
and he declared his belief that dem
ocrats should sit in the seats of he
mighty, hold every coigne of vantage
and every place of power.
Speaker Clark said that for years
the democrats had been sneered al
"as party of negation, green hands
in formulating and conducting public
business, ridiculed as mob, a rab-
BILE, without conference or discipline as
militia fighting regulars, and even the
exact date on which we would dissolve
into warning factions, and go to pieces
was set down in type" But" he add
ed, 'the democrats have fought and
won like veterans and constitute as
thoroughly disciplined force as ever
appeared in the house or any other
parliamentary body since parliamen-
tary bodies were instituted among
men, mustered our full strength on
every important proposition and pass
ed two great tariff bills over the pres
ident's veto, the first instance or the
kind in the history of the republic
They had fought a good fight, and
kert the faith, he said.
Mr.. Clark said that $50 long as the
earth spins upon its axis or slides
down the ecliptic," public men who
would escape the peoples wrath would
take to heart the simple and instruc-
tive story of the astounding change
in the political situation "since. that
melancholy day in November, 1908,
when we were so completely fattened
out" The lesson, in brief, he said,
was that the republicans in order to
get in promised to revise the tarifr
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 cooperated with us in passing
good bills" The secret of our mar
velous success, he said, is simple I'M
ity of thought, purpose and action, fire.
quent counsel together, spirit OF mu-
tual conciliation, strict adherence to
principle, with utmost latitude in nom
essentials, subordination of individual
desire, to the general party good, sac
rifice of personal ambitions in the ear
nest, honest, patriotic endeavor to
serve the whole people with whatever
of capacity God has blessed us.
"We have won many Victories" he
said, "but what is better, We have
formed the habit of victory" He sug-
gested that Roscoe Conkling's declar-
alton that General Grants fame was
earned not alone by things written,
but by the arduous greatness of the
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
what we will do when we come into
full possession 81 the three branches