The Washington herald., 1914-05-10
P. D. O. INTERVIEWS
Something In Justice to Speaker Champ Clark

I THAT'S a vile eainmny. sir" he shouted
| in SO loud q voice that several Senators
came Fastening UP.
| 1T may be-" replied the interviewer in
his softest tones, but the public has ror
TO know that II Is.
| well you can say that Chauncey
Depew is responsible for that canard He
coaxed me into playing a few games Of
poker with him, and because I came out
10 cents ahead he sought to destroy my
reputation. / was going to lick him be-
fore him term was out. but he always
managed to dodge me-"
| But you do play poker?' was asked.
| You have got to II you would be .
success as a Speaker. and what do you
| suppose my constituents would say II
they heard that 1 had dropped It I
don't play to win. however"
rs 1t to help along foreign missionsc'
| You've struck it. There's many Q
Niger in Africa wearing patent feathers
bought with the money I've lost at poker.
Please make this strons-very strong"
And vaudeville?'
| Il don't even know what kind Of q
| show that Is.
TT is sometimes called a leg-show."
| Whose legs?'
| Females"
And the price Of admissions
''oh. a quarter gets a good seat"
| Man. look at me-,
| I'm looking, Speaker
| do / look like a man who'd 20 70
the trouble and expense of trotting OF
| to a theater to see female legs when
| with the fashion OF clinging skirts yCI'vs
| only got to stand on a corner fifteen min
| utes to see hundred CT them-long legs,
| short legs crooked legs and every other
| sort? Make public denial for me, sir,
and make 1t very strong. that I never
/ attended a leg-show in my life
| Speaker Clark" continued the inter
viewer ''one day last summer you were
walking on Pennsylvania avenue"
| Doubtless"
! You were accosted by a stranger Who
asked the way to Jackson Square"
| Yes"
What was your answer"
Il probably told him what he wanted
to know"
Far from it. Speaker. That's another
thing that's got to be smoothed over il
you make the campaign. You fixed that
gentle and lamo-like stranger with your
| eye and roared out:
DO you want jackson Square or Squar'
| Jackson"
| IL dunno!' he answered in his con-
| fusion.
| Then why the devil didn't you say 50
| and ask for the navy yard
Senator, that stranger was a minister
| from Yaphank. Long Island. and he's
going to down you II he can"
state for me. and make il very strong
| that nothing OF the kind took place He
Carolina, who DIDN'T like the looks Of his
face"
There are still other things. Speaker"
| "Trot them out
You have heard of the town Of Mas
hua, n H?''
That's where they use cinnamon to
| scent thei- rabbit pies Go on
Il was snow-bound up there last win
ter and fell in with a minister who was
down on you He said he was here in
Washington two years ago and in saun-
| tering about came to a park where you
were sitting on a bench alone He said
you looked at him and kindly asked II
| he were tired"
Yes. that is ever my way" said tn.
! Speaker.
! When he said that he was asked IL
he was minister. He replied in the af-
| firmative. and you hitched along and
asked him to be seated. He was about
TO take a seat when he cast his eyes
down and what did he behold?''
| "A nickle. perhaps"
| Sir. il was a gigantic bumblebee,
with a singer as long as a Dagos still
etto.''
, You don't say
| But do. That bee was waiting there
| He had to wait. for you had taken
piece of gum and made him fast Scores
of people had passed. but you had
waited for a minister to come along II
| that good man had sat down on that
| bumblebee-if he had been lifted fouI
| feet in the air.
1T never happened"' shouted tn,
Speaker.
But the good man insists that
1T was Senator Smith, of Michigan,
That's just like him.
And then Mr.. Champ Clark gave way
10 his feelings and used such oxenized
words that the sergeant-at-arms came
and led the interviewer away, that hs
might not then and there hit the down.
ward path with kerplunk
THE P. d. Q. MAN