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Show SPLITTING OF THE DEMOCRATS. The Democratic party is split wide open. On the one side are the Wilson-Bryan forces and on tho other Champ Clark and his following. A Washington dispatch says the administration admin-istration Democrats are going after the scalp of Speaker Clark, and that tho bitterness of the administration followers knows no bounds, and is made all the more keen by what they regard as an unfair eleventh-hour coup by Speaker Clark to scuttle the tolls legislation. That Speaker Clark must be sidetracked side-tracked as an intolerable obstruction to carrying out the policies of President Presi-dent Wilson was the statement made by the president's friends In the heat of their anger. Tho president's friends are declaring declar-ing that although tho speaker's purpose pur-pose was to open the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination In 1916, he has, In fact, made .Inevitable .Inevit-able another fight which will be the first one he will have to pasB through, and that is a fight to retain his office of speaker. The Sixty-fourth congress will organize or-ganize next year. If the Democrats carry the house, Clark undoubtedly will bo a candidate to succeed himself, him-self, and unless something is done to smooth tho Ill-feeling that has been engendered, the Wilson-Bryan forces will get behipd a candidate for speaker and try to lay Speaker Clark on the political shelf, where they say he be-longB, be-longB, Revenge on Speaker Clark is being sworn on all sides by Wilson adherents, adher-ents, who declare that ho has not only gone to unprecedented lengths to show his animosity for the president, but that he also went to the limits of unfairness by watting until tho eleventh hour to spring his coup. They declare It can be proved that when ho was consulted on tho longth of time that should be allowed to debate de-bate the rule he at first asserted that ten hours was ample, while in his published statomgnt he vowed he would not be a party to ramming down the throats ot members of the house a rule that allowed twenty-four hours of debnte. Lot them fight- The Republican; have had their differences, have quarreled, separated and reunited, now the Democrats are free to go through the same purifying ordeal. Champ Clark and his admirers are classed as reactionaries and Wilson and. Bryan nre spoken of as reformers. Out of this party struggle should come a clearing of the political atmosphere. |