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Show - w - THEY SHOULD BE RECALLED. Steps are being taken in Chicago to recall Mayor William Wil-liam Hale Thompson for his attitude in the matter of extending ex-tending an invitation to Field Marshal Joffre of France to visit Chicago. It is reported that the Mayor declined to extend the invitation for fear of offending Chicago's large German population, and it is intimated that behind the decision the Mayor was playing politics. For this act on the part of Chicago's Republican Mayor, we are free to say he should be recalled, and we trust the presqnt democratic council will be successful in having him recalled. re-called. There is another fellow who should be given a dose of the same medicine and that is Speaker' Champ Clark of Missouri. Speaker Clark has fought the President's army bill to the last. He said that in Missouri "a conscript was looked upon as a convict." Judging from the overwhelming over-whelming vote given the conscript bill in Congress, there must be quite a large army of convicts in Missouri. An Associated Press report, bearing a Des Moines date line, quotes Judge K. M. Landis of Chicago as having the following fol-lowing to say about the speaker: I think the real reason back of the speaker's utterances and back of the other opponents of selective conscription is that they believe that in their districts there are more people who do not want to do the thing that is necessary to win this war than are on the other side. These men at Washington are hesitating, not because they think universal service is not the-best thing, but because they think that back of their constituents con-stituents there ai'e enough men who are wrong1 on this question to defeat them if they come up for reelection. re-election. If Champ Clark is such a man, he should be recalled., Any man, be he Champ Clark or otherwise, who wouldi play politics at such a time and in such a way is unfit tc be in Congress, much less to be speaker of the house. Missouri should get rid of Clark. |