The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-19
maine CAMP AlCN
IS OPENED TODAY
BY CHAMP CLARK
Speaker of House Takes Issue
With Gov. Hughes.
ssHas Shot His Bolt" Says Old
Democrat Leader.
FAILS TO SUSTAIN CHARGES
Republican Nominee Choking
for Spots on the SUM-"
MissOurian Tells Things the
Administration Has Done.

Brunswick, Me-, Aug 4S---Oiie@iiAP
Clark. speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives, opened the campaign IN
Maine for the Democrats today IN d
characteristic speech in which ne tolo
OF the accomplishments of the admins
tration and congress under the leaoei
ship of President Wilson. He also tooh
note of the campaign tour Charles
F. Hughes is making in behalf OF MS
candidacy for the presidency. MT
Hughes. he said, had thus far mace
eroueb speeches to enable people TO
form Judgment as to his opinions on
current issues. and in the speaker
opinion, He has shot MS pou' Jul
failed to hit the bulls eye.
Mr.. Clark said in part:
MFR. Hughes's speeches may not pc
,,nfairi15 summed up as 'querulous
carpings' at the splendid record Oh d
Democratic congress and DemocrduIc
characterization. Here and there out OF
a vast multitude of things ne mus
few of minor character Whlch
deems unsatisfactory to MIN" No.
even IL wrong, have no more TO uo
With the tremendous problems with
which a mighty people are wrestling
than have the potato vines OF Aroo-
stock county, Maine, to do with the
ma festic flow OF the MISSISSIPPI rlNei'
Not National Issue.
He endeavors to make an issue OF
the separation of Honorable T. Dalt
Durand from the payroll as dlreGtor u
t,a caps,1s I know Mr.. Durand- he
&c CT estimable gentleman but he had
no vested rights to the office Whlch ne
held. There are thousands OF Amerl-
can citizens as capable, honest' IN
dustrious and patriotic as MI Duranu
and neither Judge Hughes nor any
body else Of veracity will deny these
necessary qualifications to the splen-
did American who was appointed TO
succeed Mr.. Durand.
"It is not within the power OF Judge
Hughes nor any other complaining
orator to make national issue
of Durand any more than he can
make a national issue of VINO f1red
the Epheslan dome or who struck
Billy Patterson or who was the man
in the Iron Mask.
Lord Bacon, who possessed the
most exquisite intellect ever housed
in a human skull-the father of the
inductive philosophy-warns lis
against deducing a general rule from
too few instances-a warning winch
applies 20 all writers and speakers
including tie eminent Judge Hughes
Gives No Proofs.
He draws a general indictment
ments but fails to give us the specifi-
cations or the proofs to sustain the
indictment.
He says that he is in favor Of I'M
diluted Americanism. So are we all.
He is not peculiar in that respect. The
vast mass of the American people
men and women-are too busy work.
ing to make elaborate speeches vaunt-
ing their undiiuted Annericanisrn, but
the average American citizen is as
patriotic as Charles Evans Hughes,
Woodrow Wilson or any other big-wig
In the land.
There is not one American citizen,
native born or naturalized in one hun
dred. who would fail the country
should the supreme test come.
Perhaps President Wilson has
made some mistakes. Perhaps the
Democratic congress has made some.
It IS safe to say that there never was
a president or congress that did not
make mistakes and there never will
be-simply because we are all human.
An astronomer who has an ade-
quate telescope can find spots on the
sun; but, nevertheless, the sun con-
tinues to light and warm and fructify
the earth. Judge Hughes, with his
telescope is hunting for spots on the
Democratic administration and the
Democratic congress-but the people
reaiize that we have the most un-
."uAIoSu prosperity that has blessed
the land since Christopher Columbus
discovered America and that notwith-
standing the ancient and chronic sneer
OF the republicans that we possess no
power OF constructive craftsmanship.
Things We Have Done.
we have in three and a half years
paced upon the statute books more
constructive remedial legislation than
the Republicans did in twenty wears
laws which should have been passed
-FOUR decades ago. They are likely to
conclude to let well enough alone and
10 continue the Democrats in power"
Speaker Clark here enumerated
some of the things we have done"
with the remark that factions sneak
louder than words" His list included
the tariff bill, with it's new income tax
features, federal reserve bank act.
antitrust laws, Alaskan trades COM
mission. rural credits, and good roads
biils and the constitutional amendment
authorizing election of United States
senators by popular vote
what has been done for the defense
OF the country and for the laboring
men also were referred to and in clo1-
ing the speaker said:
The chances are the voters of
america viii act on the same dictum."