Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-29
SENATOR REED
NOM|NATES CLARK
He Has Marched in the Procession
Where There Was no Band to
Lead"

WuCAC 4hOlV was AO AnAN y"
Lead"
Associated Press.
Baltimore, Mr., June Ex-senator
Reed of Missouri, presenting Speak
Champ Clark's name to the con-
vention for the Presidential nomina-
ton spoke in part as follows:
1--WE are here, 10 to nominate q
candidate, but to select a President.
Today we shall contend, each against
the other; tomorrow we must be bro
theirs in a battle for humanity.
ours is a high privilege and SOL
emn duty. 1t should be met in a
spirit of exalted patriotism. Every
consideration must be subordinated
to the great cause of the people. We
speak not only for a party. but for n
nation, for mankind and for history.
We are about to dissolve the part
nership between monopoly and gov
eminent.
Sixteen years this partnership
has levide tribute under the forms of
law. II has taxed the crust upon the
lips of hunger. 1t has filched from
the pockets of poverty. Monopoly has
financed the campaigns of Republl-
can Presidents. 1t has been rewarded
by immunity from punishment for
violation of the criminal statutes.
The people turn to the Democratic
Party for relief.
Republican candidates have re-
sorted to every form Of false pretense
every trick of demagoguery. In order
to delude the people. one of these
candidates has o hestitated to at
tack the courts Of law and to as
sail the fundamentals of our Govern
ment.
I'VE recognize the truth that all
laws and the Constitution itself
should when necessary be amended
to meet changed conditions. But we
refuse to assail the structure of our
government or to incorporate intell-
ectual vagaries and fantastic exper-
iments into our Jurisprudence.
eve stand for government by law. 1t
is for this very reason we insist
that the law against illegal comFbina-
ton must be vigorously enforced.
Under Roosevelt the trusts flourished
as a green bay tree; under Taft the
tree has grown and -pread its BRAN
ches until their shadow overs all
the land. Roosevelt's policies in all
their fundamentals have been per-
petuated by Taft. If either is elect
ed, these policies will continue.
1.-The situation is epic. In such a
st ,uggle as lies before US, give m a
no summer soldier or sun
shine patriot.' Give me no political
diletanti, who come into camp when
hcnors are most ripe to pluck.
want no half-fledged chanticler who
is only just beginning to acquire a
Democratic Let me rather have
for general him who has suffered
the hardships Of the camp, fhe tolls
of the march, the dangers of the
angle; who has proven his mettle in
the baptism Of fire.
Let me tell you of such a leader.
He was not born to luxury. He
sprung from that stock which pro-
duced the men who subdued the
West, the people whose hearts are
instinct with patriotic love of coun-
try and liberty.
I'VE hear much today of Progress
sives. The term has perhaps never
oeen clearly defined. But If you mean
by a progressive one who studies
conditions, and recognizing an evil,
bravely seeks for and applies a rem
edy, then | assert that this man has
a record unsurpassed.
"He does not cling to a thing sim
ply because it is hoary with age. Nei-
Their will he embrace one because
IL is new. He is conservative enough
to believe that nothing should b.