Arizona republican., 1912-07-10
CHAMP CLARK
 MERE MEMORY
Outpouring of Original Will son Men Get Together to Fix Things for the Repub- lican Meeting on Satur- day Night

IL iiflS JtlSt Dctii ulSCONeItu iltIe III Phoenix that the supposition which prevailed before the Baltimore con- vention. when Woodrow Wilson was nominated for the presidency on the democratic ticket. to the effect that Arizona, including Maricopa county,
 was for Champ Clark, was all wrong. i This discovery is due to the fact that about nine out of ten democrats one meets nowadays profess to have been the original Wilson men; and if one is to believe the declarations assever- ations, and assertions which are thrown about so promiscuously the Arizona democracy never did consider anybody but Woodrow Wilson at all. Of course, it is true that at the primary eleven out of every twelve votes were cast for Clark. But what has that got to do with it?
 As has been noted, this rather pe- culiar condition is a matter of com mon. everyday observation. But it was also strikingly illustrated at the meeting held a night or two ago at Lysander Cassidy's office for the pur pose of preparing for the Wilson and Marshall ratification meeting to be held on the city hall plaza Saturday night. That meeting, to borrow a phrase from the classics, was some 1 thing of a hummer
 Among other things that transpired there there was quite a lot of 1 speeches. Real, old fashioned Oratory i that warns the cookies Of the demo- cratic heart, if the average demo- cratic heart is equipped with cookies, and it is presumed it is. Among the 1 speakers were Mr. Cassidy and Frank 1 DeSouZa. It is known and has been 1 known all the time that Cassidy and 1 DeSouZa are and also have always ] been Wilson men, so there was no surprise at their declarations of joy l that the New Jersey man had been i nominated.
 But with some of the others it was 1 quite different. One speaker after another was called; and every man who had formerly been classed as | Clark booster got on his feet and de- 1 clared that it was the happiest mo- 1 ment of his life when the news came
 that the Jersey pedagogue had pulled ! down the nomination plum. These ! men, according to their solemn dec | larations, were Wilson men, always 1 had been Wilson men, and had never 1 thoughe of being anything else than 1 Wilson men. Ii was one grand and 1 glorious love feast until c. B. Wood was called upon to speak.
 | Now, Wood is from Missouri and is l an old neighbor of MT. Clark's. He | expressed some surprise that there
 seemed to be nothing but Wilson men l in Arizona for, he said. judging by 1 the primaries, it really seemed there had been some Clark men here. How l ever, he said, the state of the meet 1 ing seemed to indicate that about 1 everybody had always been for Will | son and in view of that fact he won l dered just where the votes for Clark ! had come from at the prima rieS. In i Missouri, we stand up for our man." i Mir. Wood said but we know how | to take a hrashing: and if the steam | roller runs over us, we get up and go 1 to work for the candidate, even 1 though we may wish it had been the | other fellow rather than ourselves 1 that had been flattened."
 Then came Judge Barnum.
 Il notice you are all Wilson men," 1 the judge said, and that seems a lit | tie strange in view of the fact that 1 before the primaries about everybody seemed for Clark And the same 1 thing seems true pretty much all over 1 the country notice that about 1 everybody is a Wilson man now and l that leads me to wonder that MT. 1 Wilson had such hard time getting 1 nominated. So, l advise you fellows, l if you had such hard time nOmin- 1 ating your man with practically the 1 whole country back of him you would l better be up and doing if you expect | to get anything accomplished in the campaign that is just starting
 And then they all looked at each l other and wondered if Barnum really meant what he said.
 In addition to this exchange of 1 felicitations there was a speech by | Judge P. A. Wren, of Yavapai county
 Wren took something of a fall out of 1 Harry Davis, who on the Glorious | Fourth went up to Williams where | in the course of a speech he had paid l his respects to the Yavapai county | senators for voting and working
 1 against woman suffrage. But he said 1 Davis is a pretty good democrat at | that. and he would rather vote for | -