Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-10-16
SPEAKER CHAMP CLARK
VISITS WILDWOOD
Wants Congressman Baker Re-
turned TO Congress Because,
He Says. He Has Made Good.
Came Over In Aut0mO-
bile From Atlantic
City on Sunday
Morning
LAUDS PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON

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man from Missouri, Speaker Of the
House of Representatives, wal q visitor
to wildwood on Sunday. the guest of
Congressman J. Thompson Baker.
The Speaker, Mr.. Baker and the
latter's charming daughter, Katherine,
came over in the. Baker touring car
from Atlantic City where MI. Clark
addressed a large audience Saturday
evening in the interests Of MI. Bakers
reelection to Congress.
The party left Atlantic City before
ten O'clock Sunday morning. They
experienced two elbow outsn to the
tires and after considerable delay ar
rived at the Baker residence on Pacific
avenue at noon. Mr.. Clark was quite
exhausted from the strenuous business
Of the preceding day and after being
dined rested the entire afternoon.
Speaker Clark and Mr.. Baker left
Wildwood at six p. M. over the Wild
wood and Delaware Bay Short Line
railroad for Washington.
The Speaker Is q most ardenDsup-
porter Of President Wilson's policies
despite all reports to the contrary.
During his visit here ne talked along
the same lines as his speech In Attain
tic City. He feels that the outlook is
most favorable for Congressman Bakers
reelection to a seat In Congress.
In speaking in reference to Mr..
Baker, the Speaker said: "As repre-
sentative of the Second Congressional
District of New Jersey, Congressman
Baker has been one of the best Demo-
Gratis. He Is my personal friend; he lie
q friend of the President and he is able,
industrious and patriotic. 1t is a poor
plan to exchange a Congressman that
has made good, for an uncertainty,
and l trust the voters of Cape May,
Cumberland, Burlington and Atlantic
counties will make no mistake. 1 feel
quite certain that Democracy will win
this fall. We are going to elect q DEM
ocratic Congress in November, and l
have reason to believe that 1 will again
be selected as Speaker. l desire and
will aid Congressman Bakers return.
He has made a good Congressman dur
ing his first term and he will make a
better Congressman during his second
term.n
The Speaker 10 an enthusiastic boost
ier for Mr.. Baker and 1t is quite likely
that he will speak in the district again
in the Congressman's interests.
The Speaker stated that his remarks
at Atlantic City, in reference TO the
President, expressed his sentiments
exactly and that he had nothing to
add I o them. This section Of his adj
dress is appended:
"Perhaps-who knows?n said the
Speaker, "when President Wilson has
finished his course as Chief Magistrate
of this mighty Republic and when his
tofians come to assign him his place
in history, they will pass over the great
domestic measures of his Administra-
ton, such as tariff revision, currency
legislation, etc., and declare that his ef-
forts to keep the United States out Of
war constitute his clearest title to the
gratitude of his country"
Mr.. Clark said Americans had both
altruistic and selfishreasonsfor wanting
peace. 1--WE are all akin to somebody
over there he added, land our hearts
go out to u kindred in their sore dis
tress. This applies to us ell, whether
our ancestors came over 300 years ago,
as mine did, or at q later time. 1t APP
plies with peculiar force to our 10, 600, 900
citizens who were born in the countries
now in battle array.
nWho started the conflict no one
seems to know. What it lie about APP
pears equally obscure. No matter who
got 1t up, no matter what it is about,
we fondly hope and fervently pray for
its early conclusion, not only for the
sake Of humanity and civilization, but
for the sake o. u W prosperity and
happiness.
president Wilson expressed with
great felicity the sentiments Of all true
Americans when he rendered his kind
" offices to the belligerent powers In
order to stop the titanic struggle across
the seas. Fortunate In his coign Of
vantage. happy in the confidence of q
powerful people, let us hope that he
will succeed in his philanthropic en-
deavor, and that upon him will rest
the blessing vouchsafed TO the peace
makers in the Sermon on the Mount
The Speaker reviewed the work of
the Democratic Administration, decIar-
ing: 1--WE have put upon the statute
books in one session Of Congress o
constructive legislation than was eve
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