The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-20
MAINE CAMPAIGN
OPENED BY CLARK

a national issue of who fired the
Ephesian Dome? or who struck Billie
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
inductiye philosophy warns us
against deducing a general rule from
too few instances warning which
applies to all writer's and speakers,
including Judge Hughes.
HE draws general Indictment
against Democratic diplomatic APP
pointments, but fails to give US the
specifications or the proof to sustain
the indictment.
Not Peculiar.
"He says that he is in favor Of
'undiluted Americanism. So are we
all, God be praised! He is not pecu-
liar in that respect. The vast mass
of the American people-men and
women-are too busy working at
what the Germans denominate the
bread and butter sciences to make
elaborate speeches Wanting their
'undiluted Americanism, but the av-
Crage American citizen-and after
al the average American citizen con
stitutes the strength and glory of the
republics 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 hundred
who would fail the country should
the supreme test come.
Perhaps President Wilson has
made some mistakes. Perhaps the
Democratic Congress has made some
1t 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 hui
man. Any astronomer with an ade-
Quate telescope can find spots on the
sun-but nevertheless and notwith-
standing, the sun continues TO light
and warm and fructify the earth.
Judge Hughes with his telescope
Is hunting for spots on the Demo.
cratic administration and the Demo-
cratic Congress- but the people real,
izN that we have the most unbound
ed prosperity that has blessed tho
land since Christopher Columbus dis
covered America, and that notwith-
standing the ancient and chronic
sheer Of the Republicans that wa
possess no power Of constructive
craftsmanship, we have in three and
half years placed upon the statute
books more constructive remedial
legislation than the Republicans did
in twenty years-laws which have
been passed four decades ago, They
are likely to conclude to let well
enough alone and to continue the
Democrats in power"
Some Things Done.
Speaker Clark here enumerated
Some Of the things we have done"
with the remark that factions speak
louder than words" His list in
Guided tho tariff bill with its new in
come tax features, national reserve
bank act, antitrust law, Alaskan
trades commission, rural credit and
good roads bills and the constitu-
tonal amendment authorizing the
election Of United States senator's b.
popular vote.
What has been done for the de
tense Of the country and also for the
Iaboring man were referred to, and
In closing the speaker said:
"The chances are the voters OF
America will act on the sage dictum
Of Abraham Lincoln, that it is I'M
wise to swap horses while crossing
the stream, and continue the Demo
Gratis in power.
Have Confidence.
"The people seem to have abso-
lutte confidence In the pilot of the
ship Of state, Woodro wWilson, and
are not likely to drop him overheard
in mid-ocean while the storm whips
the waters into fury.
He did his duty, the Democratic
House did its duty, and the word
duty is the sublimest word in our
vernacular. We submit that we de-
serve well of the republic-al of US
Having discharged our duty and
been faithful to our trust so far, the
people will assume that we will dc
our duty and be faithful even unto
the end. D
at is written by their works ~
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