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Show CHAMP CLARK'S POOR OPINION OF OTHERS. Champ Clark has some peculiar views In a recent interview, he classed Roosevelt as a mountebank, Hohson as a lunatic and praised James R. Mann as a presidential possibility. Ul .Mann he said . "If the Republicans have ony common com-mon sense they will nominate Representative Rep-resentative James R. Mann of Illinois Illi-nois for President in 1010. He is the most industrious, persistent, pes-tiferous pes-tiferous mnn I ever met He is the ablest parllomentarfan on tbe American Ameri-can continent and the ablest Republican." Repub-lican." Giving his attention to the leader of the Progressives, Clark said: "Roosevelt Is a strange fellow. He's got the ear of the public He's a great curiosity, a mountebank, and when he announc.-s what he want between 4.000.u0i) and 5.000.000 people will yell 'Hurrah!' He's half crazy, but American to the core. He's the phenomenon of I he country" Speaking of Congressman Hobson. the speaker remarked: "He Is I knight errant Had he lived in the days of chivalry he would have been one of those who went In search of the Holy Grail. In our day, confronting our problems, he Is a political lunatic. Have you got that0 Hobson is a lunatic1" Speaker Clark has lost his dignity and self-poise. He la in a class with the disappointed. Since Bryan defeated de-feated him for the Democratic nomination nomi-nation for president by denouncing him as being in league with the corrupt cor-rupt forces of tho country, and then supporting Woodrow Wilson. Cbamp Clark has been a soured politician. Secretly, he Is wholly out of harmony with the administration. At a critical stage in the legislative campaign of the administration, he took the floor of the House to oppose the Wilson measures an unheard of attitude for n speaker of n party in power. Though former Speaker Cannon did not like Roosevelt and had no great love for Taft, he did nothing to embarrass those men when he was in the speaker's chair and commanded a big wing of the Republican forces. Clark, to the contrary', has not let an opportunity go by to hamper the Wilson administration, while retain ing a fair semblance of loyalty Wo have a poorer opinion of Champ Clark than prior to his repeated exhibitions ex-hibitions of petty spite. This politician refers to Roosevelt as a mountebank The leader of the Progressives has been far more consistent con-sistent and haB given more evidence of his sincerity In the measures he hab advocated than has Speaker Clark. oo |
