The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10
STONE ADVOCATES
SPEAKERS CLAIMS
Missouri Senator Likens
Champ Clark to Lincoln in
Address at Chicago.
SPEECH BY GOV. WILSON
Iowa Delegates Instructed for
Clark; Wilson Men Win
in Washington.
SPEECH BY GOV. WILSON


CHICAGO, March 9.-fHistory re.
peats itself and the history Of Abra-
ham Lincoln from the occupation of
rail-splitter TO the proud position of
president of the United States will be
repeated in Champ Clark said Sen
stor William j. Stone, the senior SEN
ator from Missouri, tonight at the Ho-
thusiastic supporters Of the speaker at
a Champ Clark reception held under
the auspices Of the Missouri society
of Chicago. W. K. Pattison presided,
Washington was first and his mem
ory Will be first In the hearts Of the
people of this country" went on Sen
ator Stone. "Lincoln holds second
place by the vote of his countrymen
and women, but Champ Clark is third.
P place only second In Importance TO
that Of the president and he will hold
that place, too, after next November,
'fDid you ever split rails7'' asked
the senator, holding out his hands. 81
have and I know what Lincoln faced
as rail-splitter. Lincoln came from
a hillside farm of Kentucky and so did
IL
splitter and so was Clark. The man
who is to carry the Democratic banner
10 victory next fall came from the
poorest section of Kentucky. But Clark
went to Missouri as boy and he will
90 to the Presidents chair as q citi-
zen Of the state which [ now feel is
one Of the greatest, if not the great
est. in the Union.
Reminder of Lincoln.
t'And there are many elements in
the life of Clark and in the disposition
and character of the man that remind
one Of Lincoln He has the rugged
honesty Of Lincoln, his fearlesspess,
his determination to do what he deems
to be right at all hazards, no matter
who is hit-no matter even whether
it rebounds TO his own advantage or
not Once he has weighed the matter
dictates, Champ Clark will 60 ahead
on that line if it takes all summer.
Lincoln was greater man than
his party, and so, too, is Champ Clark;
and this is campaign that Is to
weigh men, IT is TO tell their mcttle
and decide their weight to nicety.
And let me tell YOU that 100 years
historian is writing down the history
of this country, the name of Champ
Clark will he written down as that OF
one of the great men. the man who
believed in the triumph Of the rights
nf the whole people-a man with lofty
ideals who was not ashamed Of cal
loused hands, who worked his way
through sheer merit from rail splitter
To president
T. +. Campbell. Illinois mana ger Of
the Champ Clark boom, in brief all
dress. after describing the od-fash
ioncd spelltN.g bees in the district
school, said Champ Clark has spelled
his way from the foot Of the class to
second place in the nation.
Counts Up Delegates.
lie is going to have first place
and we are here tonight to help him
TO that place he has so richly earned.
said Mr.. Campbell. He already has
all Of the thirty-six delegates in his
own state. ten from Oklahoma and
twenty from Kansas. making sixty-siX
votes for Champ Clark as against ten
for All Of the other candidates com
bined. Governor Wilson of Now Jer-
sey is not even sure Of his own state
yet Neither is Harmon of Ohio
There IS no question of the worth
of our candidate Every day adds TO
his strength, and he will win this nom
ination. and win in the election, for the
people are ready TO elect Democrat
as president of the United States, and
Champ Clark will be that Democrat -
Champ Clark was not present at the
meeting, but committee was appoint
ed to invite the candidate to visit Chi
cago some time during the present
month.
Miss Miriam PruZap, a Missouri girl
soprano singer of wonderful power
and sweetness. sang a number of pa
trlotic songs and other selections. Att
the close the entire audience sang "My
Country 'Tis Of Thee" Just as the
Clarkites were fling Out it was discov.
cred that Champ Clark really was
present after all. though not THE
Champ Clark. He was the Rev. Champ
Clark Buckner Of Ashtabula, Ohio, and
firm believer in the destiny OF the
speaker of the house to the next presi-
dent of the United States,
Wilson Makes Speech.
NEW YORK, March 9.-Governor
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, speak
ing at banquet of the Brooklyn
league tonight, declared that anyone
who spoke of popular vote of the
American people as "mob'i govern.
ment. had no right TO call himself an
American.
81 am not afraid of the American
people getting up and humping them
selves said tho governor, 81 am
only afraid they viii not; and when 7
hear a popular vote spoken of as mob
government / feel like telling the man
who ntters that that he has no right
TO call himself an American
"a mob is n body Of men in hot
contact with one another, moved by
single. ungOvernable passion into doing
a hasty thing that they will regret the
next dsy. Do You see anything rescms
bling mob in that voting population
of the countryside, men tramping over
the mountainside. men going to the
general store at the village, men going
into little conyersing groups to cast
their ballots-is that your notion OF
mob.or is that vour picture OF free self
Governing people? ] am not afraid OF
The judgment so expressed If YOU will
give men time to think, If YOU viii
give them a clear conception of what
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