Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-31
SPEAKER CLARK PUTS PARTY
PLEDGE ABOVE PRESIDENTS
COMMAND ON TOLLS issue

ing against repeal. He did not vote when
the bill was passed originally, and there
fore he has none of the fears Of chang
ing his vote that appear to be upper
| most in the minds of many democratic
politicians
THE ship subsidy interests hope to get
Mr.. Clark to make a laundering speech
against repeal. If he can be induced to
come out and announce that he is in
favor of mailing the Stars and Stripes to
the canal as one anti-repeal man ex-
pressed it today, some members believe
many votes may be changed.
with Mr.. Clark, Mr.. Underwood Mr..
Fitzgerald and Mr.. Kitchin urging their
that a most remarkable spectacle will be
staged upon the floor of the House."
That is another base and false in
sinuation. If any man here believes that
slander. let him stand up here and now.
so that he may be seen by these hun
dreds of witnesses.
In another World article those of us
who stand for American rights as against
British domination are assafled for bolt
ing the President" Merciful God! What
an idiotic phrase I have heard of men
bolting platforms and of boiling nomi-
nees but whoever heard before of any
body bolting man in office?
We are denounced by the plutocratic
World as bolters because we stand by the
platform, which surely is an astounding
way to bolt.
refuse absolutely to have my democ-
racy measured by the weathercock
World.
Democrat All His Life.
I have been a democrat all my life l
expect to die in that faith. / never bolted
a democratic nominee or platform in my
life. When I was boy down in the
Kentucky hills. there was prevalent a
disease called intermittent fever"-that
is, the fever came up every other day.
The piutocratic World is an intermittent
democrat
The Worlds insinuation that I am
influenced by ship subsidies Is too con-
temptible for consideration. Everybody,
including the World. knows that from
my first entrance here 1 have fought all
ship subsidy propositions tooth and nail.
On one occasion I led the fight which
defeated a ship-subsidy proposition by
one vote
Not satisfied with the foregoing SIAN
ders. it attributes the fact that I am
the fact that l have not forgotten the
Baltimore convention. How can I for
get performance which nobody else
in America seems able to forget, in
cluding the New York World? It, along
with every editor in America who hopes
to be ambassador, minister plenipoten-
tiary, consul general, or to hold some
other fat and juicy job. has been en-
deaVoring to place me In antagonism to
the President ever since the election.
These papers declare that l am opposing
this surrender to Great Britain as an
opening gun in my campaign for Presi-
dent in 1916. 1t may surprise these OBJ
sequious courtiers to know that I never
hinted to any human being that 1 would
be presidential candidate in 1916; and
that l am not a candidate. Consequently
their slander has been gratuitous men
tai degradation.
1t will surprise these Timber cked
incense swingers still more to know what
I have uniformly told those who have
suggested my candidacy in 1916. and 1t
is this: ''If President Wilson makes a
success of his administration he will be
renominated and reelected in 1915: but
if he makes a failure, which God forbid!
the nomination will not be worth hav-
ing
Entertains No Ill-WiH.
1 never entertained the slightest ILL
will toward the President about the Bal
timore convention. I wish him we'll. L
did all 1 could to elect him. far more
than some of those who so vociferously
and fulsomely praise him now and for
whom deep down in his heart he must
entertain supreme contempt I have
steadfastly supported him until we are
called upon to bolt the platform. l abso-
lutely refuse to do any such thing