The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-01


press to represent that We are seek
ing to disrupt the democratic party
/ With most of those who have as
serted that I am seeking 70 disrupt
the party, The wish is father TO the
! thought"
FALSE INSINUATGoNs.
Replying 4 length to what he called
a 'scurrilous and sIanderous article
IN the New York World the sneaker
| said the charge that he had been
! swayed in his attitude toward the bill
! by the ship subsidy interests" was
| a base and false insinuation."
IF any man here believes that
SANDER" shouted the speaker. let
| him stand up hero and now. so that
he may he seen by hundreds of wit
nesscs."
The newspaper he named. he said,
along with every editor in America,
who hopes to be an amba sador, min
| lister, consul general or in some other
fat end juicy JOB has been cndeavor-
ing to place me in antagonism to the
president ever since the election.
These papers declare I am opposing
this surrender TO Great Britain as an
opening gun in my campaign for pres
1dent in 1915. 1t may surprise these
obsequious courticrs to know that
never limited to any human being that
] would he a candidate in 1916 and
that l am not candidate Their
SANDER has been gratutious mental
degra dalton.
r never entertained the slightest
i'll will toward the president about
the Baltimore convention. wish
him We'll I did all I could to elect
him, far more than some of those who
ell
him now, and for whom, deep down in
his heart he must entertain supreme
contempt. I have steadfastly SUD-
ported him until We are called upon
to bolt the platform. ! absolutely re-
fuse to do ny such thing"
Mr.. Clark then referred TO publish
ed reports of q. fight on his reelection
TO the speakership.
The New York Sun practically |
nominates the gentleman from Ken
lucky (Mr. Sherley1 for speaker"
said he. Here is it's exact language: |
Reports have il that already the /
little leaders have decided that Repre- |
sentative Carter Glass Of Virginia |
would be a good man for floor leader |
and that Representative Swager Sher- |
ley of Kentucky would make an ideal |
speaker
THE strange part of that paragraph |
is that it makes no mention Of my
volubIe, vehement and vociferous
friend from Texas (Mr. Henry for
the speakership. He has had his eagle
eye on the speakership, for 10 these
many years.
Il have this to say: the fact that I
am making this fight for our platform
pledges may end my public career.
There are many things worse than
being defeated for congress, or de-
feated for the speakership. or even
worse than to be defeated for the
presidency, and one of them is TO re-
pudIate the platform on which you
are elected. If my constituents who
have stood by me with mistaken fl
deity should retire me to priv ate life
can still be happy in the love and
Of my wife and children. in
the society of my books and in culti-
waiting flowers and trees
Asserting that he had no criticism
Tor his democratic friends who would
Tote for the repeal, the speaker plead
I'd That II we must differ, let us diff |
FER in kindness and then launched
INTO an argument on the merits of the
oils issue. He contended first that ,
he transcontinenal railroads would ,
De the chief beneficiaries of a repeal ,
Further referring TO president Will
sons attitude, Speaker Clark said that I
If we have entered into an engage !
nent which forbids US to manage our .
'Un affairs, then we must abide it :
however foolish or unnecessary that!