Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-03-08
CHAMP CLARK
PASSES AWAY
HALTED WITH REVER-
ENcE FOR AGED MEMBER AT
NEWS OF HIS PASSING
DIES IN SHADOW OF CAPITOL
Would Have Been Seventy-one Years
of Age on March Seventh.-Twenty-
six Years of His Life Passed in
Service in the House

Washington March 3.-Death closed
yesterday the career of Champ Clark
of Missouri. for more than a quarter
of century a towering figure in ma
'ional politics, a stalwart of stalwarts
In the Democratic party.
He died in the very shadow of the
capitol Just over the way from the
hotel whore has lived for many years.
house and senate seethed in the clos
ing hours of the congress Of which he
was an hOnOred member and leader.
The stir of legislative battle was with
him TO the end. He lived again IN
memory, as his pulses Tagged days of
the eight years he welded the speak
ers gavel in the house Those sorrow
Ing AT his bedside heard the old chief
tain mutter in his last delirum:
The question is on adoption of the
conference report"
by mandates more binding than any
written law. congress barely halted in
reverence to mark the passing Of the
aged member. Knowing as the years
had taught him TO know the vital
urgency of time in the closing days of
a congress, The former speaker made
known his will from what he knew
was his death bed. His wish was car
ried TO both houses that no halt In
public business should be made at his
death. In obedience 10 that behest
the house. peopled with his personal
friends of whatever party. halted
short half hour in adjournment then
marched OH with its crowded program.
In that pressing work, Mr.. Clark took
active share up TO little more than
10 days ago. counseling has party col
leagues as Democratic leader until a
cold struck him down TO become \ vic
lin Of The infirmities of his 40 years
Of driving life that reckoned nothing of
his physical welfare. His death threw
n shadow over every face in the cham
her when Representative Rucker of the
Missouri delegation arose TO announce
it. voice choked with emotion. 1t was
a hating. brief eulogy he pronounced,
but he drew from members signs OF
sorrow more eloquent than words to
tell Of the place the dead leader held
in their affection and respect. The for
NAL motion for half-hour adjourn
lhent was made by Representative
Mondell. Republican leader
Mr.. Clark would have been II years
old had he lived until next Monday.
but his &c years of service in the house
would have ended Friday, for he was
defeated for reelection
In The subdued talk on the floor. or
in cloak rooms while the house paused
in honor Of his memory, friends Of
years standing scOrned the suggestion
that the stout heart Of the Missourian
had been shaken by political defeat. /
1t was more personal matter that had
broken his spirit. They insisted the
death wear ago of his idolized three
year-old grandson and namesake. /
Champ Clark Thompson. was respon-
sible.
There was one thing upon which all |
were agreed. that Mr. Clark had died I
a. ht " iSlAfN ~ uiNs III Altf ldIlitSH Oh /
his life work. That made il possible /
for the house to vote his widow a year
OF her husbands salary as IFS first /
business when the memorial adjourn (
ment was over.
DIR. Jesse Shoup, Mr. Clark's physi- I
clan, had little hope from the day his !
patient was taken down with a cold |
Pleurisy developed quickly, hut behind I
that there was an accumulation of all |
ments Besides Mrs. Clark, the former I
speakers son, Bennett, and his daugh-
ter and her husband Mr. and Mrs. /
James NJ. Thompson Of New Orleans. /
were at his bedside through all his I
last hours
Word Of Mr.. Cark's death was gwen
IN the senate by Senator Harrison 81
40.