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Show Clark Featured At Democratic Rally Wednesday Chase A. Clark, Democratic candidate can-didate for governor, in a speech here Wednesday night described what he termed the major national issue in the current campaign. - "Before we had the little red school house, before we had political politi-cal parties, and before we had lav and regulations about how we wen' were supposed to live, we ha.. Christianity," Clark stated. Christianity Chris-tianity is the very foundation upon which we live and one of the greatest great-est commandments given to us is "Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself." Today we have another phrase that expresses the same thought, the "brotherhood of man." That is the doctrine in which President Roosevelt believes. But there is another doctrine being widely expounded ex-pounded today, known as 'rugged individualism.' It is the cave-man doctrine of the 'survival of the fittest.' fit-test.' "I am not a rugged individualist. I believe in the 'brotherhood of man' and that is my basic reason for believing in President Roosevelt," Roose-velt," Clark remarked. "The Republican belief in the 'survival of the fittest' versus the Democratic belief in the 'brotherhood 'brother-hood of man' is an issue in our state campaign, too. Our Governor Gover-nor has given his audiences to understand un-derstand that he is not in sympathy sympa-thy with the President's relief program pro-gram or other cooperative programs, pro-grams, and he has proved that he is not in sympathy with any of them," Clark: said. "The Republican leaders in Idaho Ida-ho have shown a constant reluctance reluc-tance to discuss issues, and I deeply deep-ly regret that their state chairman feels that political expedience requires re-quires him to attempt to degrade my character, I have just learned the Republican headquarters has invested a great deal of money In a malicious 'smear' campaign. They have put out pamphets and advertisements adver-tisements in newspapers all over i the state, asking me a series of i questions that make vicious lnsin-(Coutinued lnsin-(Coutinued on page 10) Chase Clark (Continued from page one) nations regarding my character. They have begun spreading these insinuations just long enough before be-fore election to give them time to cover the state but to make it impossible im-possible for me to answer them before election day.. I want the people of Idaho to remember Just this, "the Republican state chairman chair-man and his organization know the answers to these questions. If the answers would hurt me, you may be sure they would have published pub-lished the answers, not the questions." ques-tions." Insinuations without facts is the cheapest farm of political trickery," Clark added. "I believe the people of Idaho would rather have them explain why they spent the million dollars they found in cash when they took over the reins of state government; govern-ment; why they raised the assessed valuation of our farms and homes and then on top of that increased the tax on them exactly 130 per cent; why in addition to that, they dipped into the treasury and took out another million dollars that wasn't even there, represented today to-day by registered warrants, a first mortgage on the farms and homes of Idaho," Clark remarked. Other talks at the rally were given by P. J. Evans, candidate for state senator; Calvin Wright, candidate can-didate for reelection as state Auditor; Aud-itor; and C. E. Xtoberts, candidate for successor to John Condie as State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Miss Conna Beth Beckstead gave a vocal solo, Mrs. Marcell Wilson, gave a humorous reading, and a Riverdale chorus under the direction direc-tion of Mrs. Ora Packer sang to complete the program. |