Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-02-20
THEY YELL FOR CHAMP CLARK
c CONVENTIONS DELEGATES BE,
LlEvE HE is MAN TO LEAD
PARTY TO VICTORY.
REPUBLICANS GIVEN GRILLING
THEIR TARIFF POLICY is ASSERT
ED TO BE ONE OF CON-
TINUAL DELAY.

Joplin, Mo-, Feb. 2O.-Missouri dem
ocrats in state convention mere today
cheered wildly statement by State
Chairman Shannon that I'VE can lick
Roosevelt as easily as the Roosevelt
party say we can lick Taft.
Later when Speaker Clark was re-
ferred to by Temporary Chairman
Harber as "our intrepid leader the
convention was in an uproar of ap-
planse that lasted several minutes
When the first session adjourned the
committee on resolutions still was at
work preparing its declarations.
Enough of the resolutions are known,
however, to state that they would de-
clare emphatically for delegation
TO Baltimore instrucre~ 10 support
Clark for president as long as there
remained any hope of his being nom
mated.
!. With the band playing and the dele
gates singing Missouri's "Dawg Song.
Chairman Shannon finally raped the
convention to order shortly after noon.
chalrinap ashannon;s remarRs regard
ing "rotNn" elections in st. LOUIS II
brought a. storm OF protest from the
delegates from this city and it was
with difficulty that order was re-
stored
Mr.. Harber followed Mr.. Shannon
and hurled charges that the repub-
lican party was controlled by trusts.
He paid tribute to Champ Iss-k as
the man who had done the greatest
good for the country in breaking up a
combination in the house that was so
despotic that it threatened to over
throw the country. After the peifec-
ton of temporary organization the
convention adjourned until 2 o'clock. |
Senator William J. Stone spent the
greater part of last night in an unsuc-
cessful effort to induce David Ball of
Louisiana to withdraw from the race
for governor Mr.. Ball reiterated to-
day that he would NOT withdraw.
Judge James Cowherd, state treasurer,
is expected to announce his candidacy
soon.
Concerning national pontics, wish
to say that this is our year, declared
Joseph B. Shannon, of Kansas City,
the state chairman, in calling the dem
ocratic state delegate convention to
order.
"All one has to 90 to be convinced
of it," said Mr.. Shannon, is to talk
to those who compnp- either wing OF
the republican party Today The
Roosevelt people tell you that Taft
can't be elected. In TACT, we demo
Gratis in Missouri owe great deal to
the Roosevelt wing OF the republican
party in this state for they were the
originators of the i1ea OIL adopting res
olutions which say in substance that
we hereby endorse the many and
splendid achievements OF the admins
tration of William Howard Taft, how
ever, we IdFOI do Jul CduuiudJc 1Ol |
the second term of that splendid adj
ministration, Theodore Roosevelt.
I'VE democrats should lose no sleep |
over whom our republican friends
shall nominate for / assure you we
can lick Roosevelt as easily as the
Roosevelt people say we can lick Taft.
1t is a mere flip of a coin so far as we
are concerned, whether it shall be
Roosevelt or Taft"
E. M. Harbor of Trenton, Mo-, tenn
porary chairman of the convention
said in part:
we enter upon this contest unit |
ed and, as ! belie--, an invincible
party. No one has done more to bring |
about this desired result--the uniting |
of the democratic pa-ty and the rend-
ing of the republican party asunder in
factional differences ana contentious |
than has Champ Clark.
1T was through his splendid leader
ship that republican majority in con- !