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Show mm. IS VARMLY VELCOMEC Neighbors of Distinuishec ' Hissoorlan Make Home Coming Memorable. PARTICIPANTS FROM THREE GREAT STATE! Speaker of House Tells o: Early Straggles; Arrived ' , From Kentacky. f ' f ""awsaawamm . lOTJIBUUTA. Mo.. Sept . It Spaai r Champ Clark of tha house of rapn enUtlvea is heioc entertained . tods by home folks, an Pike county peepl a the greater part of the populauoi of the nlath Klsaoari roinraaslonal illr trlct Jolnln to maka kls bomecomin from Waahuictom aa epock tn Misaoui aiatorr.-.- . ( , . It. was here. that Mr. Clark laade from a steamboat' thirtr-aix 'yeare' ag as a roonf attornrv from Keotockj asd . tkroack those years ' he ; kas aee malated 'aa arquaintaaea which, ia-li '( on .aad. loyal. So-whea it eama t preparations , for ihe homeeomina; a one could be considered aa nniateresl ed, aad arrangement were made oa a nonpartisan a basis-aa possible. R publieaai as well as Democrats from tb district were placed aa tha vsrlon committees. Nt la importance to Mr. Clark' address, later. ia the day a the baske dinner, the maia prop of which win fc home fried chicken. Four nun.irr housewives have promised to proviH a well filled basket. As the gastrooom leal climax 100 home grown watermci oas ara oa ice. ... Ooagraasmea Speak. Illinois and' Iowa, as well a Mil aoari. are represented ia the eelehration Among the speakers ara Represent tivee J. B. Pepper, Iowa, aad Henry 1 Bainev. Illinois. Ia hi adrfrees Bpeaker Clark spok of tha stmrtles of his early dsvs sn the ties whirh bound him to M lienor eotL He told af teaekj,ng school thii ty six years ago, and said: ' "I rstne to Iiiiaiana, Ma,, oa fir borrowed, the first time I ever sai him, from Judge B. H. Priest, noi aa eminent lawyer of St. Louis, an. then struggling along aa city attorn of Moberlr. And that waa sot th last time I have borrowed from Mu sotiriass." . " . . Warming to his subject, tha s peeks said: 4 . No Enough roUUd. "It is constantly asserted bv the an thinking that we have too much noli tie and too many politicians. W hei wa reflect thst ths word 'poises' it its higher and nobler sense muni tk science of government we must concedi that the mora politics wa have tbe bet ter, for government affects tha haoi-i ness aad prosperity of every resideni between the two oceans. "Instead of there being too mem politicians, there are not enough. Ir a country whose institutions are baser pea popular suffrage, every mar should be a politician aad every mar owes a portloa of his time, energy aad talents to the service of the state. "It is sometimes urged tbst there it ao much corruption in politics that good mea ara defiled by participation therein. That excuse is not tenable. Is fact, it is preposterous. "No doubt there ara corrupt mew in politics; so are there corrupt asea-in every business nnd profession, bat it it a eonsolatioa to reflect thst there are not ao many corrupt ones either ia politics pol-itics or ia any other walks of life thin year aa there were last year, and tbet will aot be so many corrupt ones next year as there ara this year." Mora Light Needed. Ia conclusion. Speaker Clark pleaded! for mora enlightenment on tha real political po-litical facta, and said: "Tba persistent charge that all pub-lie pub-lie men ara for sale and tbst all government gov-ernment ia this country is thoroughly rottea, aot only puta improper ideas into the heads of our owa people and of our children, but has a woeful ef-feet ef-feet oa tbe immigrants coming to oar shores at tbe rate of more thaa a anil-lioa anil-lioa per nun. to be assimilated by aa and to be formed aad fashioned iota Amertcaa ettixens. "I am aa optimist, aot a pessimist. A jubilate is more plessant music, thaa a miserere. It mnst be that 3,IXX.(Xa) Ameriraaa, habituated t1 free inetita-tioea, inetita-tioea, will not permit those institutions institu-tions to perish from tha earth." |