The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-08-25

Speaker Champ Clark made his OPP
ening speech in the Maine campaign
at Brunswick last Saturday in char
acteristie speech in which he told of
the accomplishments Of the Admins
tration and Congress under the leader
ship Of President Wilson.
Hughes Has Lost Cunning.
Judge Hughes has made enough
speeches in this campaign to enable
intelligent persons to form something
approximating a correct judgment as
to his opinions on current issues" said
Speaker Clark. "He has shot his bolt,
but failed to hit the bulls eye.
at was universally conceded by both
friend and foe that his speech at
Youngstown, o., in 1908, was far and
away the greatest Republican speech
made that year. Comparing his
speeches after he was nominated for
President with his strong Youngstown
speech, one is forced inevitably to
one of two conclusions First, that his
pen and tongue have lost their cum
ming measurably; second, that he has
nothing worth while to urge against
Democratic accomplishments or to pro-
pose as Republican policies, should
Republicans by some miracle win the
House, the Senate and the Presidency.
"Querulous Carvings
Ellis speeches may not be unfairly
summed up as 'querulous earnings at
the splendid record of a Democratic
Congress and a Democratic admins
tration. Here and there out of vast
multitude of things, he finds few of
minor character which he deems unsat-
isfactory to him, which, even if wrong,
have no more to do with the tremen-
dous problems with which mighty
people are wrestling than have the pc
tato vines of WOODSTOCK county, Me-,
to do with the majestic flow of the
Mississippi River
ale endeavors to make an issue Of
the separation of the Hon. E. Dana
Durand from the payroll as Director
of the Census. ! know Mr.. Durand.
He is an estimable gentleman, but he
had no vested rights to the office
which he held There arc thousands of
American citizens as capable, honest,
industrious and patriotic as Mr.. Du-
rand is, and neither Judge Hughes nor
anybody else of veracity will deny
these necessary qualifications to the
splendid American who was appointed
to succeed Mr.. Durand,
at is not within the power Of Judge
Hughes or any other complaining or
ator to make a national issue of Du-
rand any more than he can make a
national issue of who fired the Ephe-
sian dome or who struck Billy Patter-
son, or who was the man in the iron
mask.
"Americanism' Universal.
lord Bacon, who possessed the
most exquisite intellect ever housed
in human skull--the father of the in
ductive philosophyz-warns US against
deducing general rule from too few
instances-a warning which applies to
all writers and speakers, including the
eminent Judge Hughes.
"He draws general indictment
against diplomatic appointments, but
fails to give us the specifications or
the proofs to sustain the indictment.
"He says that he is in favor Of 'un-
diluted Americanism." So are we all
God be praised.
"He is not peculiar in that respect.
The vast mass of American people
men and women-are too busy work.
ing at what the Germans denominate
the bread and butter sciences to
make elaborate speeches Wanting
their 'undiluted Americanism,' but the
average American citizen constitutes
the strength and glory of the Republic
lis as patriotic as Charles Evans
Hughes, Woodrow Wilson or any other
bigwig in the land. There is not one