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Show CHAMP CLARK IS TO DRIVE MULES Moberly, Mo., Sept. "If I a elected speaker of the next bouso of representatives, I will drive a team of Missouri routes down Pennsylvania avenue." The foregoing Is tho promise Con-ETeseman Con-ETeseman Chump Clark made to a crowd of visitors at tho ho:nc-comlng celebration here. In tho course of an address. The promise pleaded tbo crowd and for several minutes the speaker was unable to proceed with his speech, on account of tho cheer- Ins And yelling. It was Mr. Clark's assigned duty to welcome home MlSdourians who had strayed from the borders of the "show me state." He welcomed thom all light, but was Inclined to axk why they ever went away In the first place. Mr. Clark also reproached his hearers hear-ers for permitting Missouri to take a back neat, ad he eaM It hod done. "Missouri has taken a back seat too long," ho said. "We bave done the work and the other feuows have got tho glory, Missouri has never had a president, a Justice of the flu-premo flu-premo court or a speaker of the houtse. It ia time we had all these offices, , and I'm going to see to It that we get one of them right away." |