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Show Champ Clark of Missouri 1b a wonderfully bright man. He has opened the campaign for I the Democracy and his chlefest Indictment of the Republican party is that It has fallen away from I tho tariff and reciprocity beliefs or McKlnley and the other tariff and reciprocity chiefs of 1894. That seems to fix the status of the Democracy. It seems to be just ten years behind the times. In 1894 If we mistake not the Wilson Bill was pushed j through the House and because Mr. Gorman In the Senate shook it to pieces with something over , four hundred amendments. Mr. Cleveland, then President, declared It was "perfidy and dishonor." At that time the tariff was declared highway robbery rob-bery by the whole Democratic contingent and resiproclty was a .stench in Democratic nostrils. Now Mr. Clark sighs for that old reciprocity and declares that there is no free trade party In the United States. The consistency of the Democracy lost Its jewelry years ago. |