Show J CLARK SPURNS OFFER OF SECOND PLACES PLACE Speaker Flatly Refuses to 0 Accept Nomination for Vice President I SCORES DICTATOR BRYAN Declares He Was Beaten Through Vile Vilean an and Malicious Slanders' Slanders o of Nebraskan Pledges Support o of Nominee r r. WASHINGTON July 2 Defeated Defeated after alter a hard battle batHe but satisfied I with ith the fortunes of war Speaker Clark returned to the capital from the convention city ty tonight and repaired to his office to thunder his renunciation of vice presidency the over oyer telephone as often as i 16 lb was suggested to him The speaker motored back from Baltimore where he spent t the thc day a at ai the thc Baltimore club with Senator Bennet He lie took dinner with hns ins family and later issued a n statement pledging his support to Governor Go Wilson Nilson and voicing his contempt contempt- for the t tactics tactic of William Jennings Bryan BIJan to whom horn h ha credited his lis defeat i f The speaker seems the tIle least feet ed of his family over o his defeat J i This Th was not near as hard a figh fights as I had to get bet my first nomination ni 1 to Congress said the speaker com com- commenting on the result i l He had no complaint to make o oC ot th final linal break but said that victory cou coul have hUc been his had the forces helped him hint out on the tho ten ballot and thereafter He said Soya Sona tor Bankhead merely precipitated d th that t Inevitable He was glad that thA th strain was over and ho could r retire Ur from publicity for a few w weeks In Inmost most inot emphatic emph terms terms- the tho- tho speaker ker dis dis- disclaimed clamed claimed any n desire to be belco vice dent He referred to the nomina nomination 1 n of Dr A. A Hendricks f for that of office ornee or- or nee lice and said It tt took the Democratic Democrat t y k O to prevail evaU on him to q r 7 r lor e tat Home Jn In rouse nia Speaker r Clark J rk said said he would not under any my circumstances I 1 am ant not mad ho he said but thai vice presidency does not suit me ham r h am a Co rough and tumble debater r. r I are am mort at homo home In n the House I would would would-j rather bo be a n member of ot that body than tied down In a chamber In which I ant am p powerless to part participate The general effort of leaders In Baltimore l Balti more was to convince Mr ti Clark that ha he should accept the nomination and 1 If IfA A vas yas as to e escape e the Importuning o 0 ol friends that h he returned to Washington Washing ton tan Word ord was conveyed to him that tha Mr Ir Bryan desired to nominate him an ant that the nomination on would be mad b by acclamation To all Interviewer Mr Ir Clark gave save the same reply an and ss when hn hen he heard that the was being c considered 1 In spite of or h hi he lie displayed some soma temper I f Tell those people over there I Inot wl wit not take that nomination lie he Instruct Instructed ed the Associated Pi Press ess when told o 0 othe oj the persistence of oC the movement What will you OU do If It they nom J rate you ou and adjourn he be was asked Refuse It I tell tel you ou I dont don't wan want It and will twill not have It replied Mr I Clark D Denounces 8 Bryan On his return to Washington fro fron Baltimore tonight Speaker Clark l is issued sued the tho following statement No Xo set of or men made a better or braver bra fight for an any man In this world than m my fi lends friends all over oer the country made for me They have hava m my heartfelt thanks We e never hn had mone money enough oven even to pay for tor foran foran toran an adequate supply of or postage stamps stamp and literature I r was tied down hole bore b by m my duties of speak speak- I could therefore aid my Continued on Pago 2 Column mn 5 6 SPURNS OFFER OF SECOND PLACE Continued From Pago ragO One friends very er little rho They made the thc fight gave me mo majority In In- tho lit states lates where GO elIr Wilson lson nod I competed In the tIme primaries anti and cal caused ed mo to lea lend lead on thirty ballots In time tho convention In nine nino of which I had a n clean cloan n elb majority Nevertheless the nomination was bestowed d on Governor GO Wilson I never C a n n Democratic ticket or bolted a Democratic nominee nom nom- inee In my mr life Jfe 1 shall not chan change o the tho Democratic habit now I am nm too seasoned a H soldier not to accept ac nc- ac- ac capt cheerfully tho the fortunes of or war I will wl support Governor Wilson Ilon with wih whatever power owel I 1 possess and hope ho he will t 1 bo elected I lost tho time nomination sol solely b through tho the vile vie and malicious slanders of ot llam Jennings Dr Bryan Bryin of or Nebraska ebru ka True the they were slanders landers by Innuendo and insinuation but the they wore no noless less deadly for tor that reason Signed CHAMP CLARK CLAnK |