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Show liisii TACTICS HE I Speaker Blames Nebi for for His Defeat at E more Convention' j WASHINGTON, July 2.-DcfJ a hard battle, but satlstled tunca of war, Speaker Clark ral tho capital rom tho convention nlpht and repaired to bis oftlce dor his renunciation of vice A over the telephone as oft,, nV suggested In him. ' ; Clark iHsucd the following st? No set of men made a ha braver fight for any man I world than my friends J country made for me. Thev h heartfelt thank?. We nJ money enough to pay f0r an ! supply of postage stamps and ture. I was tied down hero" duties of speakership. I 3': fore, aid my friends very little made the fight, save m0 200,0 Jorlty in the states where CU Wilson and I competed in t marl es and caused me to ,j thirty ballots in the convnn of xwh,ch.1 lHUl ,l e'ea jority. Nevertheless, the oit was ncatowed on Governor V I never si-ra tolled a Den ticket or bolted a Dcmocratk nee In my life. I shall not', the Democratic habit now. seasoned a soldier not toi cheerfully the fortunes of war I will support Governor Wll whatever power 1 possess anl will be elected. I lost the ) tlon solely through the vile 'a Melons slanders of William J Bryan of Nebraska True, th slanders by IniT-nendo and tion. but they were no lesk for that reason. |