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Mr. Hearst Says He Con
fidently Predicts That
Champ ( lark Will Be
’ Nominated and
Elected
BALTIMORE, .hilt I The papers reeenth quoted from
various signed articles of the contributors to the Hearst news
papers and imply that this or that opinion is the opinion of
Mr Hearst or of the Hearst newspapers.
There are nine special contributors to lie Hearst news
papers, all writing over their own signatures and jzivinff then
own personal views.
These men are all men of f’nru p and strong individuality,
w hose viewpoints and opinions differ trreatly.
To take the opinion of any one of these contributors and
live it as the opinion of the Hearst papers or Mr Hearst is not
accurate and not fair.
I have not as vet made am comment on the convention, but
I will give the following statement to the press:
In my opinion the vast majority of the delegates of this
convention are progressive, and the convention will demon
strate its own progressive character in the preparation ol the
platform and the nomination of a candidate.
The division at the start on the question of a temporal’)
chairman was not in the least a division on the question ol
progressive or reactionarv principles. It was merely a divi
sion on the question of whether or not Mr. Bryan was right in
his attempt to dominate the convention and Io dictate in detail
ever' action of the convention
A great mam progressives, a great many personal friends
and admirers of Mr. Bryan voted against Mr. Brian because
thev disapproved of the particular purpose ol his and of this
particular act of his.
The ('lark delegates did not vole as a bod} one way or the
other. Thev followed their OWN consciences and convictions
without the slightest attempt at coercion or any machine meth
ods.
One hundred and ninety nine ('lark delegates voted for
Mr. Brian. The others voted for Mr. Parker Ever) man did
what seemed lies! in his own heart and mind
In the California delegation Mr. 801 l nominated Mr Par
ker. vet seven of the California delegation voted for Mr. Brian.
In the Massahusetts delegation, which is lor (’lark, a large
majority voted for Mr Brian In the Washington delegation,
which is for ('lark, all the delegates voted for Mr. Brian.
Everv delegation determined its own attitude, the ('lark
managers believing that the greatest Irherly is the best Item
oeracy. (
If Mr. Brian lost, he lost not because of an) lack of admi
ration for Mr Brian among the delegates, mil because of any
prejudice on the part of the ('lark forces or of am individuals
among the Clark forces, but because a majority of the delegates
of the convention believed that it was best for the part)' Io en
courage harmony wherever harmony could he secured without
sacrifice of principle.
The convention dpeided that it had functions to perform
and was capable of performing them, and that the Deinoi-rae)
did not need a dictator, not even so aide and honorable a one
as Mr. Brian.
It is unwis> and unjust of Mr. Brian to declare that ever)
one who disagrees with him upon this point of opinion was a
rcaetionari. obedient to a boss or subservient to Wall Street.
I am as sincere a progressive as Nir. Brian. I lune fought
for the cause of the people as long as Mr. Brian has. I have
qjade as mam sacrifices for principle as- Mr Brian has. and I
am as read) as Mr Brian to continue the progressive tight in
the present and in the future without surrender and without
co mpromise.
lam not favorable to Mr Parker I opposed Mr. Parker
in 1904 at the St Louis convention, just as Mr. Brian opposed
him.
I received over 20<> votes in St Louis in the 1904 comen
tinn. with opposition to Mr Parker, but if I had been a dele
gate upon the floor of this Baltimore convention yisterdai. and
if 1 had voted in the interest <>f harmony to elect Mr Parker to
an unimportant position, maintaining mi *>tand unswervingli
for progressive prieiples in the vital matters of the platform
and the candidates. I would deni Mr Brian the right to ini
piign mi motives or t<» question mi loialii to the progressive
cause.
I am defniitel) ami positive!) and finalli in favor of a
progressive candidal' and a progressive platform, but I waul
to sec the progressive candidate and the progressiie platform
carried through to victor) In tin enthusiastic support of a
EXITED Demoerac)
I know that there is no mor.' genuine progressive in the
length and breadth of this land of ours than ('hanip ('lark
He has detiiiitel) declared his views in innumerable earnest
and inspiring utterances, ami he has demonstrated his sincerity
by his acts
He is not a new convert to ih< progressive cause. Eor
nearly half a century he has fought tin progressive fight and
won his batties on progressive issues
IL is a veteran in the war lor the people's rights
He has won his promotion and attained his present dis
tinction through his courage ami devotion to the people's cause
He has not changed Ins mind nor altered his attitude on
these progressive question* ni all hi* long and honorable career,
and we know that if elected president of tin- I nited States he
will be and will remain a progressive and‘a Democrat
I knew Champ ('lark when I was a representative in eon
press, and. like Aeneas. I can tel: of a progressive tight ' part
of which I saw and part of which I was
I knew thA Democratic minority. disorganized under Joseph
W. Bailey, demoralized under John Sharp Williams
I saw Champ (’lark elected leader if this disrupted and
C*nU*>.»« .« !_*•* Gel..——
The Atlanta Georgian
SUMMER SPORTS
By HAL COE EM AX.
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j SHINE. by Mary ,1.
Holmes —there It lay. face
down, on the rock.
The tall ferns s-r-w and
sweet around the rock, the water
fall sang a song of summer and of
laughter In green places, the pines
sighed mournfully In the cannon
and above there floated in the se
rene blue a fleecy cloud.
The blue bells shook their deli
cate petals as If some fairy wed
ding was at hand, ami there in the
cleft of a great rock smiled a wild
rose, as sweet and as pink as the
first flower that bloomed In the
Garden of Eden.
So still it was In the deep green
canyon, so still, so sheltered, so
scented, so cool, it looked and felt
as If m\ foot was the first ever to
tread the way to the cleft rock hi
the clear spring
Ind yet there It lay. the queer,
battered, weather-beaten old book.
Tempest and Sunshine." by Mary
.1 Holmes
Who whs reading it” 1 wondered.
Where did It come from? In what
attb had it lain all these mocking
years” •
I had Just got Interested in that
b"ol< when trjuh-.-r slipped up be
hind me and took It out of my
geogra phi
W hat'» that you're reading m>
dra ' said she. 'something about
South American industries."' Ind
she took the book right awa- from
me thrtyami there and net or (gain
did 1 get one glimpse of it
I never did know whether T-tv
pest got Sunshine's sweetheart
away from her or not. and here it
was right here in th- deep < anon
o?« God’s Answer &
Bv KLLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright *912, by Xmerican-.Journal-Examiner.
ONCE in a time of trouble and of care
1 drepmed I talked with God about my pain;
With sleepland courage, daring to complain
Os what I deemed ungracious and unfair.
"Lord. I have groveled on mi knees in pra.ver
Hour after hour." I cried, "yet all in vain;
\o hand leads up to heights I would attain.
No path is shown me out of my despair."
Then answered God; "Three things I gave tn thee—
t lo.ar brain, brave will and strength of mind and heart.
All implements divine, to shape the wav.
Why shift the burden of thy tod on Me’
T H to the utmost he has done his part
With ill bis might, lot no man dare to pray."
An Old-Fashioned Book
Bv WINIFRED BLACK.
MONDAY. J ELY 1. 1912.
waiting to be read, face down, on
the riven rock.
Hack! A»e those voices on the
wind? Some one is coming up the
canon iII step into the shadow a
minute Here they are—three girls
three funny little old-fashioned
girls. One. very little, and one
middle sized, and one quite tall.
They are looking for something.
"Here's where we sat." said the
eldest girl.
"I see l-t.” said the little girl, as
she snrang and picked up the book
in less than a minute the three
wore In a knot by the riven rock.
The eldest girl set her sturdy back
against a tall tree, the two smaller
ones settled themselves comforta
bly at her rather good-sized feet,
and the spell began to work.
■’Tempest frowned darkly," be
gan the eldest girl.
"Oil"’ cried the little girl, "that
mean olfi Tempest Is beginning
again I almost hate to heat about
her. She is awfully mean."
Anti rather than disturb their
j<n 1 stole carefully away down
the green canon and loft them to
gether there by the riven rock,
where the clear water sang the
-ong of summer and of laughter
In green, shedy nooks. Tempest
and Sunsirine and the little
old-fashioned girls.
And now 1 shall never know
what happened to little Sunshine
and her sweetheart, the voting doc
tor. I shall never know whether
Tempest found out how wicked site
was and reformed I shall never
know what either of them wore
the day thev were married of what
the young doi tor said when he
■ gathered little blue-eyed Sunshine
to his heart," as he must have some
time before the end of the story.
Isn’t It too had?
"Tempest and Sunshine." what a
queer old-fashioned hook it was.
to be sure. Not a married woman
In it. not a stolen kiss, not an elope
ment even; no actress, no late sup
pers. no divorces, no “climbers." no
clever innuendos, as Mr. Aston
Stevens says—nothing but honey
and bread and butter and snowy
biscuits and blue eyes and that
wicked, wicked Tempest.
How could we ever have been so
absorbed in it when teacher found
me reading it in my geography so
many years ago? And yet there
they sat today together in the deep
canon, tht* three growing girls, as
deeply absorbed In the old-fash
ioned book they had fished out of
some garret as if It had been a
treatise on eugenics, the sort of
thing that seems to be so fashion
able Just now’
Have the girls changed, or have
we who buy the books for them
changed?
Sentimental, high-flown, lacking
in literary merit. Doubtless, doubt
less. no one could claim much for the
"art for art's sake" side of the
Holmes book or its like. And yet
Just the other day when a girl of
seventeen went with me for a walk
up the green canon where the
laughing w ater .< alts day and night
to all who are weary to come and
rest and laugh, too. and when she
carried as light reading in Iter
blouse pocket "De Profundis" and
'Omar Khayyam”—l felt somehow
as disconcerted as I would to watch
a harmless gray and white kit
ten trying to make itself believe
that it liked mustard and horse
radish for dinner and couldn’t abide
a dish of bread and milk with good
thick yellow cream on it.
"Tempest and Sunshine." by Mrs.
J. Holmes. We laugh at the old
fashioned books now. and at the
old-fashioned people who read
them, and yet. do you know, id
take my chance with any one of the
little readers of "Tempest and Sun
shine" up there in the canon the
other dav and let the poor, puzzled
earnest .voting person with the
"Omar Khayyam" yearnings and
the "De Profundis" cult go by on
the very cold side of the street for
al! of me. I wonder if I am en
tirely wrong”
Love friendship, simple hopes
kindly ambitions, sweet, daughter
ly affection, home live white table
v loth, the yellow butter, the golden
honey, tin amber tea. the little
sprig of woodbine in the golden
hair, the simple bouquet of wild
r<>«es on the table, the bright fi r e
on the friendly hearth, when the
i 00l of evening falls the sweet
clover under the window, the com
fortable iat in the sunshine on
the porch, the old dog at tiie gate,
the bees a-hum in the buckwheat
what is there bettei than these
things ~r more to be loved and
desired, after all?
THE HOME PAPER
The Education of .the
Voter
THE RECALL
Gives the People Power to Remove an Ineffi
cient Man From Office.
THE recall is a special form of
the initiative. The mechan
ism of this factor in our po
litical life is very simple, tn cer
tain cities a clause ha' been insert
ed in the chartet permitting th»
calling: of a new election to fill an
office on petition of '25 per cent,
more or lees, of the voters.
Its direct object is to give the
people the power to remove an in
efficient’ man from office, if he has
misused or abused the privileges of
it. By the recall clause in its char
ter. Los Angeles. < al., has removed
a mayor from oflv e.
It is no easy matter to determine
how far the power of recall is a
just instrument in the hands of th«»
people. But there is no question
whatever as to its safety, if the
people rise to the level of it intelli
gently. The one great asset count
ed on by political rings and bosses
is the supineness of the people.
They count on the mass not taking
hold, not taking Intelligent interest
In politics. And this close analysis
• has a point in this, that it leaves
the rings and bosses free to use
their power as they like.
This Fact. Escapes
The Average Man.
It is amazing that a fact so sim
ple and so plain to discover should
escape the average man. What does
he do when he ’s convinced that
the ring has so forced up things
about him that only a hand-to
mouth fight is possible?
He does nothing.
The powers know be will do
nothing, and they sing the Halle
lujah Chorus quite often, for quite
often things come their way with
no opposition.
Before the advent into our poli
tical vocabulary of Initiative. Ref
erendum. Preferential Primary. Re
call and the like the average voter
was about as safe as a man with
one foot in the grave and the other
on a Vianana peel. But these nev
words, and all the ideas for which
they stand, are not fixed condi
tions; they are open doorways by
which you can go out into the
field and exercise new powers.
It must be remembered that the
Initiative is just as apt to inspire
a bad man as a good one. It is all
a question of which can get the re
quired number of signatures to his
petition and the majority of votes
at the election which hi* petition
calls for.
People Must Watch Over
This New Privilege.
Hence the people with this new
power and privilege are very much
like a body of owners of valuable
physical property. They have to
watch it, cover ft with high insur
ant e. and have an eye on It night
and dqy The bosses, eager to In-
Mr. Hearst Predicts Clark
Will Be Nominated
and Elected
Continued From First Column.
discouraged minority. I saw him weld it into a harmonious
unit, and devote it to the fundamental doctrines of Democracy.
I saw him outline the progressive policy which expressed
lhe demands of the people, and received the support of the peo
ple. and. wonderful to relate. I saw that dispirited Democratic
minority transformed into a triumphant Democratic majority.
Tho people of the United States found in that Democratic
minority under the inspiring leadership of Champ Clark a po
litical body which represented them, and the people placed that
body and that leader in tho control of congress and gave, them
the po'wer to carry through to complete success the admirable
work which they had so well begun.
The success of the Democratic organization in congress
was the cause of the great Democratic victory of 1910. and
Champ Clark was the leader who made that victory possible.
All tho Democratic governors ot that year were swept to
success on the tidal wave of Democracy which found its origin
and received its impetus through the progressive and Demo
crat! of Champ Clark and his associates in congress.
Champ ('lark, who harmonized the Democracy in congress
and led it to success in support of progressive principle, seems
to me now to be the man to harmonize the Democracy of the
nation and lead it to victory in this campaign for the presi
dency of the United States. x
1 confidently predict that Champ Clark will he nominated
and elected, ami that he will make the greatest president that
the Democracy has had since tin dat s of Jefferson and Jackson.
W. R. HEARST.
Bv THOMAS TAPPER.
fiuen-e polltica' conditions,
for yea s bent the!” energies to
that. end. That is one form of In
itiative. Hitherto when a vicious
man has been put in office. he has
usually remained there until his
term expi-ori; but the instance of
Los Angeles, quoted above, show’s
how such a case may be dealt w/h
once it comes to popular notice.
Rut is the Recall a necessary in
strument lo place in the hands of
the people? I f you read only the
dally papers you will be convinced
that as good men heartily con
demn It as others, equally good,
'defend it. It is pointed out that
when the mob takes the Initiative
to bang a man instead of leaving
his ca«e In 'he hands of law and
the courts, it proves 'hat public
opinion can be influenced to per
form irresponsible deeds.
But. happily, there lies in the In
itiative a very great power. That
power is the nomination to office of
a man WHO WILL NEVER NEED
To BE RECALLED. That a meth
od should be prot ided for the re
moval from office of an unfit per
son. has neve’ beeq denied, hence
impeachment trials were Instituted.
Hut th» temptation to remove an
officer on the petition of a small
per cent of the voters Is a different
instrument It is true that the
seme of the voters may kill the
prayer in the petition.
Some cities and towns that have
added the Recall factor to their
charters have been very careful to
consider this. For example. Fresno.
California, demands 51 per cent of
the voters to sign a Recall peti
tion; on the other extreme. Berke
ley requires only 30 per cent.
Need More Experience to
Estimate Its Value.
The Recall has been described as
":i blow at the dignity of public
life." Properly and justly to esti
mate its value we need more expe
rience. and we shall probably get
al) we need of it. But other pow
ers in the hands of you as a voter
are sufficient in 99 per cent of
cases to take care of the situation.
The hundredth per cent cab be left
lo the impeachment trial. For the.
99 per cent a w ise choice of candi
date. an intelligent effort to get the
tight man for the place, a disposf-
<
tion to stand by justice In all Its
forms; these are the factors of In
surance against a catastrophe that
are all powerful.
Once again, it is all a matter of
Intelligence. A degree of Interest
on your part In live constructive
politics will bra* anything the ma
chine tries to put in operation. So.
your education. as a voter, turns
your attention to wise, construc
tive politics for direct and efficient
service.