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Champ Clark is going to be in the
running for the nomination unless all
signs fail
Champ Clark May a n d n e
Have Bryan Backing. walked un-
der any ladders yet They do say that
William j. Bryan will support him,
" ould that be called poetic justice or
| the irony of fate-the man who pre-
vented his nomination at Baltimore
| throwing all the power and prestige
of his marvellous hold upon the Amer
lean people to the support of the one
he had once defeated?
! The report that the Wilson admin
istration has set out to check the
Champ Clark presidential boom in it's
| incipiency by defeating him for the
minority leadership is not entirely
credited in informed democratic cir
cles 1t has been known ever since the
| last election that the Wilson admin
| istration would like to upset the con-
| troll of the southern democrats over
Congress. and in so far as Mr.. Clark
were part of that organization he
| would go down withthe rest, in case
the administration, it is said, was
after the southern "oligarchy" as they
call it.
Well, when one takes the unofficial
list of the next House of Representa-
tives and eliminates the southern
| democrats. there isn't a great deal of
body left to the democratic party in
and intensive Tammany element of
that assembly. Inasmuch as Mr..
Clark's leadership is tied up with the
principle of seniority. the binding ce-
ment of the southern committeeman,
it seems difficult to understand how
the democrats could shelve him and
demand their share Of committee as
ii they would all stick together.
The administration might like to
bell the cat-taking the wise old ex-
Speaker as the object of simile-but
who is going to do it, is asked? But
wouldn't it be a queer trick for fate to
play il Mr.. Clark, who still enjoys
the memory of how he rolled Uncle
Joe Cannon out of the chair and
crushed Cannonism," should be the
victim Of an insurrection Of his own
folIowings Can happen" his enemies
say-to which his supporters retort,
There isn't q chance.'
Il
What is Tammany going to do in the
presidential compaign? Will it back
-McAdoo, or put
Tammany Backing ,, up its own own fair fair
Uncertain Factor. smith of New
York? The answer, Of course, will not
be found until Charles F. Murphy
looks over his hand IN the next con-
ventiop and watches the draw. He
will then do whatever seems to the
best advantage OF Tammany, regard
less of President Wilson or any one
else, unless he makes violent depar-
his own record
his own re cord.
There has been talk that the NOV
ers Of the plan in the democratic party
to eliminate the southerners from
control and build up a democratic
party in the north that will attract
Independent voters plan coalition
with Tammany, with this end in view.
Tammany, it is said. will coalesce
with anything that looks like win
ming proposition, but is mortally
averse to getting on a dead one"
If Mr.. McAdoo should decide to fall
in with the plan of ''reorganizing" the
democratic party on structure of the
north and west. and should come into
the game with his acknowledged re-
sources, the proposition might look
attractive to Tammany, it is said by
democrats.
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The most interesting report in re-
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