The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-09-04
|LAUL)ED By CLARK
TIE RGJsE DEMOCRATS DID
GREAT Things SAYS TEE
SPEAKER OF TIE BODY

Gz kIEkaAGH Ga sLA SSO .
Says the No-k Of the Democrats IL
the House Of Representatives VII
Give the Party the Eouse, the Sen
ate and the President In the Mex
/ Election.
Speaker Champ Clark Saturday
delivering the vaiedictory os ths
Democratic House Of the sixty-ssconS
! congress, asserted that histoTta1E
would declare with absolute truth
that the House Democrats Of the SIX
ty-frst and sixty-second congresses
"did great things" and "haVe made q
sweeping Democratic victory apprcxi-
mateIy certain, victory that will
give US the House, the Senate and
the president"
Dramatically addressing his col
leagues while the clock across the
House chamber was slowly moving
toward the final adjournment time,
the speaker, in tribute 20 leaders OF
both parties, declared that no major
ity was ever more successfully led
than by Representative Underwood,
nor any minority ever led more ably
than by Representative Mann.
Leader Manu." said he, mas con-
tested with Leader Underwood every
step of the long and wearisoue road
We have Travelled with the stubborn
courage Of the English squares at
Waterloo. ! have not always agreed
with Brother Mann-God Forbid
but he lives up fully to his name.
He is n very truth man. Were 1t
not foT him I would feel decidedly
lonesome n the speakers chair"
AS speaker-as dean of the fac
ulty, so to speak"-Mr. Clark said
he felt very proud Of the membership
Of the House, and he declared his be-
lief that Democrats should sit in the
seats of the mighty, hold every
coigne Of vantage and every place OF
power.
Speaker Clark said that for years
the Democrats had been snesred at
"as party Of negation, green hands
in formulating and conducting pub
lie business, riGiculed as a mob, a
rabtle, without conference or disc1p-
line as militia fighting regulars, and
even exact date on which we would
dissolve into waring factions and go
to pieces was set down in tpye".
But" he added, "the Democrats
have fought ana won like veterans
and constitute thoroughly q discip-
lined force as ever appeared In the
House or any other parliamentary
body since parliamentary bodies were
instituted among men, mustered our
full strength on every important prop
osItion and passed two great, tariff
bills over the presidents veto, the
first instance OF the kind in the his
tory Of the republic. :" They had
fought good fight and kept the
faith, he said.
lMr. Clark said that $50 long as
the earth spins upon it's axis or slides
down the ec1iptic," public men who
would escape the peoples wrath
would take to hear: the simple ard
instructive story Of the astounding
change In the politica! situation,
"since that melancholy day Il Nov
ember, 1908, when We were so COM
pletely fatteled out" The lesson,
In brief, he said, was that the Repu5-
iicans, IN order to get In, promised to
revise the tariff down, but, being in,
they proceeded to revise It up.
The speaker expressed thanks and
the gratitude Of the country to tine
brave, wise and patriotic Repubii-
cans who co-operated with Us n pass
ing good bills. The secret Of cur
marvellous success" he said, eis sim
ple-unity Of thought, purpose and
action, frequent counsel together, 2
spirit OF mutual conciliation, strict
adherence to principle, with tmost
latitude in non-essentiai, suoord!na-
ton of individual desire &c the gen
eral party good. sacrifice OF personal
ambitions in the earnest, honest, pa
tr!otic 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 Conklirg's decla-
ration that General Grants fame was
earned not alone by things written,
but by the arduous greatness OF
things done, "fts our case Ike
glove.
what the Democratic House ac-
complished, so far as it could for the
anlelioration of conditions" said he,
"thwarted, as it has been, by q Re-
publican president, is only an earnest
Of what We will do when we come In
to full possession Of the three
branches Of government. President
Taft vetoed most of OUT bills Of
renedica1 character, prerogative
unwisely exercised. He made his re-
cord; we made ours. On these rec
ords we appeal to the country with
absolute confidence that when the
polls close in November we will have
elected a Democratic House and Sen
ate. Governor Woodrow Wilson to
the presidency and Governor MaT-
shall to the y;ce-presidency-ccn-
sGmmations devoutly to be wished,
which we believe and hope Will prove
OF inestinab1e and enduring benefit
to the entire American people, Of
whatever persuasion, religious or po-
lltica1."
Saves Her Life and Weds.
His heroic rescue of a young wo-
man who was about to drown In the