The log cabin Democrat., 1914-02-26
.fULkS ANSW >
 ROGERS ARTICLE
GIVES HIM THE 'FACTS'
TELLS WHY SENATOR CLARKE CANNOT BE CALLED
 PROGRESSIVE.
By Clay Fulks.
From Tuesdays Daily.

Editor Log Cabin Democrat:
 Dubbing Senator Clarke progress sive, as Mir. s. w. Rogers did in the Arkansas Farmer, is like putting the livery of heaven on the devil. The very idea! Had not the amiable gen. tleman been so fearful in his publish ed soliloquy, one would naturally have construed it as irony of high order, aimed at the senator. But there is no mistaking that fetching pathos, that broken sob. It not only makes the la menations of Jeremiah seem light and l frivolous by comparison; it's catalOgu- ing Senator Clarke as a progressive for the reasons given has all the naivete of composition witten by a 1 little pig-tailed school girl, assisted by her grandmother, in which the billy goat is said to be like man because l he has whiskers. As indicating a faith in his favorite hero that is at once childlike and sublime; as indicat- l ing a signal failure to comprehend the spirit and scope of progressivism; as indicating hero-worship that is touching in it's devotion; as indicat- ing, too, a sstate pride that almost amounts to an hallucination, MT. Rog- CTS published soliloquy is unique in current political discussion. One can 1 no more ignore it than he can the vail of an infant. But to reply in detail would be like trying to unscramble eggs.
 1 He says that Senator Clarke has stood pat on the Baltimore platform. So has Champ Clark. Yet in the pre- convention campaign of 1912, MT. Rogers denounced the speaker as re- actionary and urged the Democratic party to nominate either Wilson or Bryan. The national convention, after much deliberation, decided to follow MT. Rogers advice. It rejected Champ Clark; and, assuming that Mir. Rogers had no particular choice as between Wilson and Bryan, it nominated Will son. If Senator Clarke is progressive because he stands on the Baltimore platform, so is Speaker Clark; yet the press has carried no hint of MT. Rog CTS apologizing to the Missourian for preventing his nominations; unless we can take the speakers recent predic- tion that he will be the next president to signify that MT. Rogers has agreed to support him. Several months ago, Associated Press dispatches brought the glad tidings that Bryan and Speaker Clark had buried the tOma- hawk; but if Speaker Clark has ever yet forgiven Mr. Rogers, no reporter has chronicled that fact.
 While I was piling Ossa upon Pelion in the Log Cabin Democrat to show that Senator Clarke is a reac- tionary, MT. Rogers comes rushing in, aU out of breath, and excitedly de- mands the facts"
 Is it not a "fact" that, when the progressive element in both the great parties, supported by Golfers Weekly and other powerful progressive jour- nals, were struggling against all the powers of darkness and standpatism to secure presidential preference pri- maries in the various states, succeed ing in about 15, Our Senator" coo- ingly so-called by MT. Rogers, had the colossal effrontery to defeat the prop osition when it was offered in our state convention by the late James H. Harrod?
 Is it not a "fact" that when the is sue of direct legislation-the touch stone of modern democracy-was be- ing fought out in this state, "Our Sen ator'' sulked in his tent, like dis