The Prescott daily news., 1912-06-28
Presents Name of Champ Clark
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cleer who is only just beginning to acquire a Democratic crow.
 Let me rather have for general him who has suffered the hardships of the camp, the tolls of the march, the dan gers of the field; who has stood at the bloody angle; who has proven his mettle in the baptism of fire.
 Let me tell you of such 6 leader; he was born in that good Democratic state
 Where men are brave,
 Where women are fair,
 The land of Old Kentucky"
 There his eyes first opened to be hold the love-ight shining in the face of a Democratic mother. Mingled with the notes Of her lullaby, the myriad sounds Of farm life were borne to his baby ears. About the next thing he heard was his Democratic father read ing a Democratic platform. He has been Democrat ever since.
 He was not born to luxury He sprapg from that stock which pro duced the men who subdued the west, the people whose hearts are instinct with patriotic love Of country and lib erty.
 A boy Of tender years, he began the struggle of life for himself. It Is story of tolls and achievement. At twelve years of age he was earning his living clerlIing in e grocery store. At fifteen he was teaching in the coun- try schools of his native state At twenty-three he was president of Mar shall college, West Virginia.
 Two years later he graduated with distinction from the Cincinnati School of Law. Ee paid his way through school and earned the money by the hardest kind Of labor
 As @ lawyer he rose to distinction. The sau-e habits Of study which had marked his youth. characterized his professional career. In point of learn ing he Is the equal of any man in American life. There is nor page c2 cur history or a principle of our Con- stitution or laws with which he is not familiar
 This man sympathizes with the com mon people. Ea recognizes the nobil- ity of labor EI5 feet have felt the sharp stones of diversity. He loves the common people because he is of the common people. He has seen them labor at their tasEe. and has bent his own hack in tdil. He looks his fellow men n the eyes from the level. YCu do not need to strain your neck to s@e ln. He has never ceased to love the common man; he has never been ashamed of his early poverty.
 Let me quote you an expression from his own lips, delivered in the house of representatives in August, 1911:
 " Whenever a man stands up and un, dertakes to 60 anything for the beDe- fit of the great massss of the people. he is denounced by the interests az q demagogue and is charged with play ing politics But to stand up and ad- vocate the cause of the interests is the highest evidence of statesmanship. As far as I am individually concerned. l sprang from the loins of the com mon people, God bless them; I am one of them. labOred with my hands in my youth, and I would do so again to- morrow. l unhesitatingly take my stand with the consumers of the land against the interests"
 We hear much today of Progress. sives. The term has perhaps never been clearly defined. But if you mean by @ progressive one who studies con. ditions, and, recognizing an evil. brave ly seeks for and applies a remedy. then I assert that this man has rec ord unsurpassed.
 He does not cling to a thing simply because it is hoaTy with age Neither will he embrace one because it is ne. He Is conservative enough to believe that nothing should be destroyed merely because it has lasted long time. Fe Is progressive enough not to reject an Idea simply because 1t ie mot covered with the mildew of an ltiQuity.
 lie believes that all changes de mand sober consideration, but he rec cgnizes that changing conditions de- mand changes in laws, and that wise statesmanship embraces the idea of steady and consistent progression.
 l challenge attention to his record: When other men beheld the rising power of financial combination, but stood inactive and appalled,, his clear vision not only saw the danger, but applied the remedy He drew the first and most stringent antitrust statute ever enacted in the United States. It has stnnd thn tast nf all the court