Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-01-16
miscellaneous BEADING.
A WORD ABOUT CANT.

A WORD ABOUT CANT.
Why Republicans Tried to Deceive
Democrats into Nominating Clark.
Ware the Greek bearing a gift.
Since good and evil began their inter-
minable warfare the day Cain slew his
brother the perverse have planned
lies and the simple have believed them.
We can have some respect for your
open, independent falsehood. but what
shall we say of him, who misleads US
by studied suggestion, by contempti-
BILE. .ahsinuation, and by hypocritical
stealth? There is difference between
the highwayman and the pickpocket.
There are folk incapable Of playing
the lion, who would be the fox.
The writer Of the following in the
Washington Star, does not care rap
for Champ Clark. His intent Is to
make Champ Clark dissatisfied. He
pays Mr.. Clark the poor tribute Of
holding him a scamp and fool Mr..
Clark has a large following. He Is
not only an able man, but he Is a low
able man, and more than resented his
failure at Baltimore than were discon-
solate because of any defeat Harry Of
the West" ever met. Lest l forget /
shall here quote the cant from the
Star:
But for the revolt Of Mr.. Bryan
at a critical moment in the conven-
ton, Mr.. Clark would have been the
Baltimore nominee, and would now be
In the White House. Nebraska had
in-'. Icted for the Missouri candidate,
anu Mr.. Bryan was present under in
But he objected to the New
York support Of Mr.. Clark and on that
account went over to and nominated
Mr.. Wilson. The prize was almost
within Mr.. Clark's grasp, when Mr..
Bryan snatched 1t away and presented
1t to the New Jersey candidate"
Mr.. Bryan did not revolt" from
Mr.. Clark at Baltimore. Clark desert
ed Bryan. There never was one mo-
ment that momentous week when
Champ Clark stood the slightest
chance Of nomination. A large per
cent of the delegates instructed for him
were opposed to him, and Tammany
never intended that Mr.. Clark should
get the nomination. Though New
York's vote was repeatedly cast for
him, it was never for him. Illinois
never intended he should b.. nomina-
ted.
Here is what beat Clark-instinct.
There was not one single Republican
standpatter or Bull Mooser between
the two oceans who was not pulling
for the nomination Of Champ Clark
not one. That, of itself would have
turned the scale. Young Ed Mclean.
son of John R. Mclean, and the con-
trolling spirit of the Washington Post,
a Republican sheet was reported as
saying, I'VE must have Clark nomina-
led at Baltimore; he Is the one Demo-
crat we can beat"
1t was the greatest political assem-
bly, that ever congregated In this
world-that Baltimore convention, OF
1912. There was gathered the cream
of American manhood, and yet 1t was
not a free agent-the people back at
home ran that convention. and Wood
row Wilson is the only man ever nom
mated by a great party for his great
office at the absolute demand and at
the imperative dictation Of the great
rank and file Of his party and his coun-
try. The hand Of God was in 1t. Bry-
an did not do 1t. A greater than Bry-
an did 1t. The Democratic party did
it. ~ ...- ...
In my life have done some things
very much against my inclination.
wanted to be for Champ Clark for
president. Looking at 1t from ma
terial personal standpoint, all my eggs
were in Champ Clark's basket. Per-
sonally I loved the man, and in a
thousand ways he Is the most amiable,
engaging, charming Of all the public
men I ever met. And for that same
reason Champ Clark Is not fit Cor pres
ident. He would turn this terrestrial
globe into a wedding cake, and the
night Of Inauguration he would carve
1t and send every human being in the
world part of 1t. There never was a
bigger heart in human bosom. His
place is in the United States senate.
And yet flanking duty, I would have
been for Champ Clark for president
had he not given in to an unspeaka-
BILE heresy-a tariff tax on wool. We
parted company in April, 1910, on
that question. 1t set me reading Wood
row Wilson books and I found him, In
my poor little opinion, the greatest
political thinker Of his generation. and
I am not sure that his is not the great
est political vision the Anglo Saxon
has produced.
God reigns. He orders all things
we'll. When a great man is born a
task Is set for him to do. I do be-
lieve that Woodrow Wilson is a man
of destiny appointed by heaven to do
mighty work. 1t Is no easy job.
Had it been so God would not have
sent a giant to do It, His speech at
Mobile is worthy to rank with that of
Lincoln at Gettysburg as a masterpiece
of our tongue and the broad charity
Of it must prevail everywhere unless
Christian civilization be halted In its
course.
When I was little boy knew in
telligent men who were ready to
swear that Abraham Lincoln was a
negro. The other day I fell in with a
newspaper man from Indiana, who as
serted that Wilson is a fool and can
not write good English.
And such is prejudice. Go believe
that Champ Clark Is broad enough and
man enough to scorn the hypocrisy
Of those Republicans who seek to i'm
pregnate him with the falsehood that
he had vested right in the nomination
at Baltimore.
Tell 'em to go to thunder, Champ
and even further-tell 'em to go herd