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Show HE LOST THROUGH BRYAN'S 'SLANDER' Washington, .luly 3 Defeated after a hard battel, but satisfied with the fortunes of war. Speaker Clark returned re-turned to the capital from the convention conven-tion city last night and repaired to his office to thunder his renunciation of vice presidency over the telephone aa often as it was suggested to him. Clark issued the following statement. state-ment. "No set of men made a better or braver fight for any man in this world than my friends all over the country made for mo. They have my heartfelt thanks. We never had money enough to pay for an adequate bupply of postage stamps and literature. litera-ture. I was tied down here by my duties of speakership. I could, therefore, there-fore, aid my friends very little. They ' made the fight, gave me 200,000 majority ma-jority in the states where Governor - Wilson and I competed in the primaries pri-maries and caused me to lead on thirty ballots in the convention, in I nine of which I hal a clean nia- jorlty. Nevertheless, the nomination J was bestowed on Governor Wilson. jj "I never scratched a Democratic I ticket or bolted a Democratic nomi- nee In my life. I shall not change R the Democratic habit now. I am too seasoned a soldier not to accopt B cheerfully the fortunes of war. "I will support Governor Wilson n with whatever power I posses anr 1 hope ho will be elected. I lost the - nomination solely through the vile -. and malicious slanders of William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska. True, they were slanders by innuendo and Insinuation, but they wero no less deadly for that reason." iio - |