The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-24
CLARK'S ADVICE IS
TO AID PRESIDENT
Representative Asserts That
Speaker of House is
Not Sulking.
BY CLYDE H. TAvENNER, M. c.

WASHINGTON, March 24.-Speak-
er Champ Clark intends to cooper
ate in whole-hearted sincerity with
President Wilson to carry out the
promises contained in the Baltimore
platform. From the moment the Bal
timore convention adjourned, he new
er had any other thought in view, but
on the contrary has taken advantage
of every opportunity to advise all
Democrats to pull together for the
success of the administration and the
good Of the party.
That Champ Clark is not the kind
of man to sulk, and that he will not,
was borne home forcibly to every
Democratic member of the new House
at the recent caucus at which the
speaker was unanimously reelected
to preside over the SiXty-third Con-
gress. Unfortunately, no newspaper
men were permitted to be present at
this caucus, and the ringing speech
party solidity did not get into the
tent. l have the consent of the Speak
er as we'll as the Democratic caucus
to publish such parts of the speech as
l desire. Space will not permit the
printing of the complete remarks of
the Speaker, which is to be regretted,
because the speech is a complete re-
futation of the intimations which have
appeared in the press recently to the
effect that Mr.. Clark is unfriendIy to
the new administration
"Since the foundation of our gov
eminent" said Mr.. Clark, mo party
has ever had a fairer prospect of a
long lease of power or a better chance
of promoting the welfare and pros
perity of the country than the Demo
cratic party has. What will we do
with the opportunity? The voters
have only placed us on probation Can
we make good? Can we vindicate the
vast army of voters who gave us the
power to conduct the government?
Undoubtedly we can. How? BY keep
ing faith with the people. BY reig-
iously carrying out the promises by
reason of which we Won By trans
hitting into law our pledges to i'm
prove the conditions under which we
live, If we do this the people will
recognize it ond approve our conduct
Democratic Promises Plain.
| There is no doubt what our prom.
! Uses were. They were writ large in
the Baltimore platform. Our first
promise was a tariff for revenue only
and to give the people that, or as close
an approximation thereto as possible
is the first duty of the new admins
tration and of the new Congress; and
in passing it may be said and ought
to be said, that tariff reduction which
does not reduce the cost of living is
not worth the paper on which it is
printed.
| "Following that We promised tc
strengthen the antitrust law; to es
tabhsh an income tax; to revise the
banking laws; to improve our water
ways: to provide for a reasonable
conservation system; to create a de
partment of labor, which we have al
ready done, and to declare the ma
TONS purpose touching the Philip
pines. 1t is an extensive program but
it is our duty to work it out. The
only way to achieve it is for every
Democrat in official position to give
the best there is in him to help re
deem our promises by subordinatins
individual ambition to the public veal
THAT any man fit for official sta
ton will let his personal likes or dis
likes interfere with his cooperating
with any other Democrat in unifying
the party in its herculean and multi
farious tasks to redeem our pledges
and thereby contributing, as l believe
to the increased prosperity and happi
ness of the American people, is {
thing incredible. The suggestion 0
such state of affairs comes from
faint hearted Democrats who are for
ever seeing ghosts or from malignant
marplots who, though masqueradins