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Our Washington Letter.
Washington, D. C., June 8,1903.
Last week I told the readers of
this correspondence about the
John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi,
the man who will be the next floor
leader of the democracy in the
national House of Representatives.
I will now tell them about the man
who will be his chief opponent in the
democratic caucus, and who, though
he is still an avowed candidate for
the honor, practically concedes his
defeat, and that is the Hon. Champ
Clark, of Missouri. The most of the
people of the country know Champ
Clark, not alone because of his work
in the Congress of the nation, and he
has been in that body about ten or
twelve years, but because of his work
in the press of the country as the
contributor of a weekly letter anent
current political events always
ten in a reminiscent manner and
very entertaining. Champ Clark is
odb of the most picturesque figures
in political- life to-day. He leads
the democratic anvil chorus. He is
the knocker-in-chief of the demo¬
cratic minority in the national
House of Representatives, and
when be gets to his feet he
does hit the republicans some of
the hardest blows ever administered
to them by any speaker on the
democratic side of the House. He
has a way of telling the truth on the
republican party that is very attrac¬
tive to the democrats of the country.
It is homespun truth told in an old
fashioned homefolksy manner that is
decidedly refreshing because it is so
seldom we hear it. When in action,
Champ Clark needs more floor space
than any man in the House. lie
flings his great long arms around like
flails, and he pounds his desk like a
deep water two-gallon baptist
preacher. The only trouble with
Champ Clark as a leader would be
the fact he is too uncompromising.
He hits hard and tells truth, but be
does it in such a manner as to excite
the animosity of the opposition,
leaves sore spots that never heal, and
does not conviuce the republicans of
the righteousness of his cause. When
a man is honest, even though he be a
republican, he is open to conviction
in many matters, but if he is insulted
and his feelings hurt by the man who
makes the speech, and who, other¬
wise, would convince him of his
error, he thinks of nothing but re¬
venge, and he gives the man no
credit for his unanswerable argument
and his intellectuality.
That is the trouble with Champ
Clark. He makes enemies for him
self and his party by his speeches
and does his cause no good. There
fore ho would not make a good
leader for the minority party in the
Congress, and his friends and ad¬
mirers knowing this have chosen
John Sharp Williams in his stead.
There is no better man and no better
democrat in Congress than Champ
Clark, but he is too indiscreet by his
vehemence to be a successful leader,
and hence he will not be chosen by
the democrats when they meet in
caucus next November. Tbete is
another reason why Champ Clark is
not the popular man for the leader¬
ship. He seerns to have an especial
antipathy to the so-called gold demo
mats, who left tue party in 1896 and
and 1900, and he never loses an op¬
portunity to roast them to a brown
turn when he is on his feet in
House. That not only does
good, but it antagonizes the element
that we want to come back and
affiliate with the party in the next
campaign They are as good demo
crats as anybody on and tariff trust
questions, which will be uppermost
in the next campaign, and the only
question on which they are at va¬
riance with the dominant faction of
the party is on the money question,
and all concede that it will not be
one of the issues in the campaign
next year. The bimetallists
won their contention that more \
money was needed to do the busi-;
ness of the country on in order to j
bring prosperity to the nation, be
cause there is to-day ore-fourth
more money in circulation than there
was in 1896, but it came in gold on
occount of the gold discoveries in
Alaska, the failure of crops in the
old countries, and an avalanche of
money and gold placed in circulation
during the Spanish-American war.
With the money question eliminated
those people will come back and
vote the democratic ticket next year,
and we will win a victory over cor¬
ruption, monopoly and special privi¬
lege. It would not help to bring
them back, however, if we put a
man in the leadership of the party in
the House who,upon every occasion,
like Cato of old, thundering against
Carthage, said practically, “to the
devil with the gold democrats.”
Thus it is that Champ Clark, the
sterling man and splendid democrat,
though one of the natural leaders in
the House on account of his intel¬
lectuality and virile democracy, will
not be the man who will map out
the next campaign against the enemy
of the people and the people’s gov¬
ernment.
* *■
The republicans of Iowa are still
shouting that the “Iowa idea” is not
dead, and that it . will bu incorporated
in the platform adopted by the re¬
publican state convention.
If the me republicans re puui leans who WHO believe Denevt as 38
does Gov. Cummin* concernine s the e
revision ... the tariff , covering the
oi
schedules that shelter the trusts and
monopolies want real tariff revision
and reduction they can get it. In¬
stead of howling about it in their
state platforms, why not put it in the
platforms on which their members of
Congress are nominated and elected
and compel those candidates to stand
for tariff revision and reduction or
get out of the race. Tariff schedules
are changed by the Congress and not
by state conventions or legislatures.
If they are going to put tariff re¬
vision and reduction in their state
platform, why not put it in the shape
of positive instructions to their dele¬
gation in Congress to vote for it ? It
is a well-known fact that the delega¬
tion in Congress from Iowa is bit¬
terly opposed to any tariff legislation
that will lower the tariff wall in any
way. If the “Iowa idea” is to have
any weight or bear any fruit it must
be adopted by the Iowa delegation
m Congress. If only sixteen repub
licans in the next House will vote
with the democrats we will have a
bill passed by the House shortly af¬
ter Congress meets in tegular session
that will take the shelter tents off
many of the worst monopolies and
trusts in the country. Of course
such a bill could never get through
the republican Senate, but it would
prove the sincerity of those republi¬
cans who are howling about tariff
revision and reform.
The truth of the matter is that
they are not sincere. They are get¬
ting up this howl about the “Iowa
idea” in order to r ool the people in a
state where tbeir representatives in
Congress come hero and continu¬
ously vote to letain the schedules
that will shelter monopoly.
“Iowa idea” is a gold bric k.
* *
Democrats and Republicans alike
have always denounced the English
policy of the opium monopoly in In
opening of the Chinese
Empire to the opium trade, but our
present administration appea s to
now approve it, for even a worse
j i opium system is to be forced on the
Philippines. The exclusive right to
run opium joints in those islands is
to be sold at auction, a law for that
purpose having been prepared, and
is now before the Philippine Com¬
mission. This bill is coated so that
the American people will be able to
swallow it In order to prepaie the
American public for the proposal,
the War Department lately has been
giving out vague information to the
correspondents about new opium
laws designed to “restrict the use of
opium,” and that the money derived
therefrom was to be used for educa
ting young Filipinos in American
schools, as prospective teachers for
the islands.
A strong protest has been made to
President Roosevelt to stop the
iniquitous traffic or at least not make
this government a party to it by
participating m the proceeds. The
nefaiious plan seems to be a pet
measure of the Secretary of War,
and it is feared that the influence he
exerts over the President will more
than offset the protests that have
been made.
***
The denial by former President,
Grover Cleveland of an interview
with him written by Mr. George M.
Bailey, the Washington correspon¬
dent of the Galveston-Dallas News,
has created widespread interest here,
and has been one of the chief topics
of conversation in the public build¬
ings and the hotel lobbies. I have
known Mr. Bailey for tifteen years,
and I know he would not wilfully
misquote or misrepresent any man,
and especially a man for whom he
had the high admiration that he bad
for Mr. Cleveland. 1 saw the letter
to Mr, Bailey written by Mr. Cleve¬
land making the appointment for this
interview, and in which he said he |
would be glad to see Mr. Bailey “iu
behalf of his paper.” What else,
oeuld he ha,. thoe S h. of Mr.
Bailejs visit, except that It waste
8 f, ,,t a letter for his paper? When
e toimu President ' 1 to d \fr B-liletr Y
unequivocally that lie was not a
candidate for the fourth nomination
at the hands of the democratic party, I
Mr. Bailey took him seriously, and
he prepared here for his paper.
saw the article before It went to the I
Galveston News by wire, and it was
as Kindly in tone as any man on
earth could have desired. The
direct quotation of Mr. Cleveland
was very short, but it was unrnis
takable and took him out of the run
ning as a possible candidate. The
general consensus of opinion here is
that Mr. Bailey told the truth, and
that Mr. Cleveland never would have
denied the interview had he not re¬
ceived instructions from some man
in his select coterie of friends to do
so, in order to hold all the power
that a prospective candidacy would
give him in the next national con¬
vention. Evidently they believe
that his name will carry more weight
with the element that left the .party
in 1896 and 1900, make them more
aedve in participating in the con¬
ventions next year and more potent
in the selection of some candidate
acceptable to them. They are simply
using the name of Cleveland to con
! jure with. The simple truth as told
Mr. Bailey has forced their hand.
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