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...Bowling Green, Mo., Mrs. Champ Clark, widow of the late Speaker of the House, contributed an article to the press: Listen friends of Champ Clark. Missouri, legislative enactment, has appropriated $25,000 to put a statue of Champ Clark in the Court House Square at Bowling Green...
This is the substance of thousands of queries from all parts of the world which have been received here. If you ask me, Champ Clark s widow, I have no answer ready, only this: 'I can say to the State of Missouri, in which I was born, 'take back the $25,000 which you gave to Bowling Green on Champ Clark s security. It has no need...
...election of 1912 he won his first victory at the polls?and then he was not a candidate. Bitter, bitter had been the Democratic Convention when Bryan, bit in teeth, prevented the nomination of Champ Clark, secured the nomination for Woodrow Wilson...
...late Theodore Roosvelt, Mr. Bryan raised a regiment of volunteers to serve in the Spanish War, and took the part of colonel. After being twice again nominated by his party he threw all his influence to Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 convention, securing the nomination of the latter over "Champ" Clark. As a reward for this service the "Great Commoner" was given the post of Secretary of State in Wilson's cabinet where he served for three years...
...stage whisper to the clerk: "Where in thunder is the gentleman from Ohio?" When no answer came, he put the motion and declared it carried. Those days are past forever. When Joseph G. Cannon was Speaker, the revolt of 1910 stripped him of his autocratic power; and Champ Clark, who succeeded him, did not care to offend anyone (because he had aspirations for the presidency) by pressing his authority. The job which Mr. Longworth is to take over is, thus, largely stripped of its authority. Some say that another strong man would remake it. But Mr. Longworth, although able...