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Show PATRONAGE I lira I Champ Clark Recalls H How Republicans Were H Whipped Into Line H Dodge City, Kan., Nov. 11. "Tho H groat battle of 1912 muBt be fought i H on the splendid record of tho Demo- H crat3 In this, tbc Blxty-second con- I gress, and upon that record wo can. H win, not only next year, 'but for years lH to come H Thus spoko Champ Clark, speaker H of the National House of Represents- H tlvcs today, in addressing the Demo- H cratlc congressional convention which H met here today to nominate a candl- H date to succeed the late Judge B. H, jH Madison of the seventh, district H George Neolcy, a lawyer of Hutchi- H son, who was defeated by Judgo Madl- H son at tho last election, had no op- H position for the nomination today. H "1 am hero for tho purpose and in H tho hope of sending another Demo- H cratlc congressman to Washington." H continued Speaker Clark, "to keep jH company with Joo Taggart, who last H Tuesday won such a brlljlant victory IH In. tho second Kansas district. May H bis triba Increase. Now that Kansan H has taken the first atop la aligning herself with tho Demoorats It is -to b9 H hoped that sho will go tho 'whole H hog,' to uso a homely expression, and H bocomo a safely Democratic stato as sho should he by every rulo of logic "and common sense. H " Somebody may inquire why I am so desirous of electing another Demo- H crat when-we have already slxty-fivo H majority In tho house. Tho answer H is slmplo. In the present house of H 391 mombors, while on a full vote- It H requires only J 96 votes to pan3 a bill, wo have to havo 262 votes to pass a bill oer the President's veto. "While wo passed all our tariff "bills originally by a rote of 2 to 1, when wo camo to pass them ovor tho Presi- H dent's veto wo lacked -14 votes of having enough. A change of seven votes would have given ub tho victory. "Much pressure was brought to hear H on .Republican members to induce , them to savo the President the hu- mlllation of having his vetoes over- H .ridden. I am informed, and believe jH tho fact to be, that when the house H was voting on the vetoes, four cabl- H net members were on the floor with H thc.WhJtfl,-rJouso patronngo and the H " V hue "' Hon sS p owe? to perauade or i coerce Republicans into voting toiaus- stain the President's vetoes. H "It mav be that Romo Republican H congressional Brethren who voted to H sustain tho vetoes at tho oxtrnordln- H ary session hare learned something H during' tho congressional vacation H by keeping their cars to tho ground H and may vote with ub if there are any H more presidential vetoes of tariff H bills. But wo know that Nooley will vote with us and ono vote may mean a docisive result." H Speaker Clark quoted United States mW Senator "Works of California as say- ing, "Taft and La Foil otto nre des- I H tined to face each other in tho next ( Republican national convention, and ; If it wore left to a popular vote today La Folletto would he nominated, and easily, too." U "United States Senator Bristow j H talks in a similar vein," said Speaker L Clark, ''as do many other eminent Re- publicans all of which tends to II. ' mW lustrato the peculiar brand of bar- mony now rending and tearing the H G. O. P. in twain." 1 |