The Washington herald., 1913-06-03
SPEAKER CLARK
UPH0LDS S0L0NS
Says Most Public Men Are
Honest, but Senator Var
daman Begs to Differ.
DEFEND OFFICESEEKERS
Birthday Party Of Woman's National
Democratic League Causes
Difference of Opinion.

that men In public ONCE are corrupt.
Speaker Clark, at the BIRTHDAY party
of the Woman's National Democratic
League at the New Willard last night.
said. II don't believe there is a single
man in the House whose vote can be
bought. or who can be influenced by the
use of money"
Mr.. Clark reiterated the statement as
he said. IF ! have one prayer 1t Is
that every man and every woman be
sufficiently educated to be able to read
their ballot on election day and be alsu
sufficiently courageous to cast IL ac-
cording to their honest conviction. II
you have anything TO do with politics In
the future, don't you believe that every
thing about American politics is corrupt.
There is nothing in it" These remarks
were enthusiastically received.
Mrs. william A. Cullop. wife of the
Representative from Indiana. who is
acting president, presided. and at the
opening made a short address of well
come, afterward introducing the
speakers of the evening.
Woman and her great influence in
life, as well as her beauty OF charsc-
ter, was the keynote of Speaker
Clark's address. and he said, at the
opening OF his remarks, that IT had
taken the women some time TO Or
ganize. but that at last they are get
ting together. Women have been
voting indirectly right along. and have
exerted their influence in the interest
of humanity" he said.
Says Many Want Jobs.
Branching of, Speaker Clark said
that in a country the institutions of
which are based on suffrage there are
always great political parties battling
for supremacy, and that the Republi-
can and Democratic parties had each
been at the head of the government
about the same length of time.
Being DESTROYS to impress upon the
mind of his audience the fact that legis-
lators are not as black as they are paint
ed. Speaker Clark said:
why is a man a good man before he
is elected and a bad man as soon as he is
in office? This is something l cannot
understand, and i cannot understand IL
because IL is not so. I have no sympa-
thy for those smart people who are polk
ing fun at the Democrats for wanting
Offices If this were a Republican admin
istration there would be just as many Re
publican office-seekers here. A vast ma
jority Of the American people wouldn
object to holding a good office II they
could get one. Your Representative in
Congress is merely the reflex of the peo-
pliment to the people 10 say that all o.
ficials are corrupt.
ORGANIZATION is the order of the day,
according to the Speaker. who said:
This is an age Of organization. In bust
ness. in politics, in religion, in charity,
in everything there is organization. The
truth is that no man or woman can ac-
complish much by acting alone, ana
everybody, therefore, ought to belong to
some party. The American people are
too intelligent to he fooled by any party
and even the party in power cannot fool
the American people without their de-
tecting il"
Senator Vardaman OF Mississippi made
one of his Enthusiastically eloquent
speeches in praise of woman. whose sur
frage cause he strongly advocated. The
Senator from Mississippi did not agree
in his address with Speaker Clark as re-
cards the honesty of men in public Of
flee. On the contrary Mr.. Nardaman said
he hoped that women would soon have
the right to vote and lend her inn 'nce
to send clean, honest and incorruptible
men to the Legislatures. In fact, the
speaker said that nothing had ever been
accomplished by man in the whole his
tory of the world without there being
the influence of some noble woman at
the bottom OF il.
Wants Monuments to Women.
He wanted to know why there are no
monuments erected to women In the
Capital of the Nation, and urged that a
beautiful monument be placed in this
city at the top of which should be the
figures of two women, one to represent
the North waving the Stars and Stripes.
the other to represent the South, waving
the Stars and Bars. Senator Vardaman
declared he had infinitely more conf
denee in the woman than man. and said
he would rather rely on the intuitive
genius of the woman than on the I'M
failing logic of man"
1t was urged by the Speaker that the
women undertake to wipe the liquor traf-
fic out of existence. A brighter future
was promised with the entrance OF wom-
an into political life.
Savagely attacking the disregard Of
railroads toward human life, Senator
vardaman said: There are more men
killed in the service of American rail-
roads than were ever killed in all battles of
history. Why was il? Because human life
is cheaper than their rolling stock"
A programme of musical numbers was
presented by Mrs. L. B. Achenbach, Mrs.
James Walter Huestis, Harry Stevens,
and Mrs. S. B. Jennings. An informal re-
ception closed the programme.
The programme committee consisted of
Mrs. William A. McCullop, first vice
president: Mrs. E. T. Taylor, second vice
president. and Mrs. William F. Dennis.
historian. The committee of arrange
ments included Mrs. Louis Bennett, vice