The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-08-31
DoNALDsoNyILLE. "a. sArURDAY. AuGIs
CHAMP CLARK I IiLED|CTORYY.

! ne speaker FseVieNs the Work {
II congressPraises 5oth Dem,
Gratis and Repubiicans-Think
the Former Did Great Things 70
H Their Party and the Country.
An Associated Press despatch from
Washington, dated august "a, says
] Speaker Champ Clark today. deliv
! ering the valedictorg of the Demo
cratic house of the si4ty-second eon
gress. asserted that historians WouIl
/ declare with absolute truth that thf
II house Democrats OF the sixty-firs1
II ana sixty-second congresses stdi6
great things and have made q
sWeeping Democratic victory approx
lnately certain, a vietory that viii
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 a tribute to leaders of
both parties, declared that no major
/ lty was ever more Successfully led
than by Representative Underwood
nor any minority eVefS led more ably
than by RepresentatiEe Mann.
Leader Manu. said he, has
contested with Leader Underwood
every step of the long and Wearisome
road we have travelled the stub
born courage of the English squares
at Waterloo. haFa not always
agreed with Brother Mann-God
forbid! but he lives ap fully to his
name. He is in very truth man.
| Were it not for him 4 would feel de-
eidediy lonesome inISthe speakers.
chair =,
As speaker, as dean Of the fac
lllty, So to speak, Nj. Clark said he.
feIt very proud CT the membership
of the house, and III declared his
belief that Democrats should sit in
the seats Of the mighty, bold every
colgne Of vantage andAeyery place Of
power.
Speaker Clark said HAT. for years
the Democrats had been sneered al
as a party OF negatioa, green hands
IN formulating and ctaducting pub
!. lie business, ridicuied#ass mob,
rabble, without eehergnce er .disci-
pine, as militia fighting regulars, and
even the exact date.s6n which We
would dissolve into Wsrring factions
and so to pieces was set dow d il
type. IL, ada ~
~ As e'sa ssll
u sltfsI lts
disal lined force as sser app feared
IN the house of any other liam
tary body since partfane entary bodies
We're Instituted amang men, muster
ed our full strength on sssssery in port
ant proposition asid passed two
great tariff bills over the presidents
veto, the first Instance Of the kind
IN the history Of the republic"
Mr.. Clark said that $50 long as |
the earth spins upon its axis or |
slides down the elliptic public met
who would escape the peoples
wrath would take TO heart The simple
and instructive story Of the astound-
ing change in the political situation
since that melancholy day in Mo-
Yember, 1903, when we were SO
completely fIatteEed out. The les
son, in brief, he said, was that the
in order to get in
promised to revise the tariff down,
but, being in, they proceeded to re-
rise it up.
The speaker expressed thanks, and
he gratitude Of the country, to
the brave, wise and patriotic Re
1uhlicans who co-operated with us in
passing good bills. The secret of
our marvellous success" he. said, lis
simple: unity of thought, purpose
md action, frequent counsel togeth-
II, a spirit of mutual conciIiation,
'trict adherence to principle, with
Utmost latitude in non-essentials,
Of individual desire /
o the general party good, sacrifice
If personal am bitions in the earnest,
tonest, patriotic endeaFor to serve
he Whole people with whatever Of 1
apacity God has blessed us. /
We have won many victories, z /
e said, ssbut what is better, we have
ormed the habit of victory. IS, He /
uggested that Roscoe Conkling's
eclaration that General Grants /
anne was earned not alone by things i
ha1t by the arduous greatness
{ things done, fits our case like a t
love- . i
What the Democratic house ac- t
SO far as it could, for t
1e afnelioration of eonditions, said
e, sthWarted as it has been by a i
.epubHcan president, is only an ear s
est OF what We will do when we
ONE into full possession Of the three
ranches of government. President i
aft vetoed most of our bills of a J
smedial character. a prerogative un- d
4sely exercised He made his rec &
IL. we made ours On these records i
e appeal to the country with ahso- Y
'te confidence that when the polls d
ose in November we will have efect-I g
I a Democratic house and senate.
oF Woodrow Wilson to the presi- il
sncy and Gov Marshall to the vice f
sesidency consummations deYoutls a
be wished, which We believe and 6
3pe will prove ef inestimable and
lduring benefit to the entire Amer L
an people. of whatever persuasion, b
,ligioas on political. b
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