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SPEAKER CHAMP CLARK
DEMOCRATIC EYES
Champ Clark of Missouri, speaker
of the national house of representa
tives, is considerably more than a
"dark horse" in the list of presiden
tial possibilities. The story of Champ
Clark's life is one that will appeal to
every American boy. One. has but to
read it, however hurriedly, to note the
wonderful similarity between that
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Great Emancipator. Both were born
in Kentucky. Both knew what bitter
poverty was in their boyhood days.
Both fought for the little education
they secured in school, and both had
to fight their way upward. Both
worked in country stores while study
ing law. "When he was twenty-three
years old Champ Clark was president
of Marshall college, and for twenty
years was known as the youngest col
lege president in America. "When he
went to Missouri he edited a news
paper a country newspaper for a
time and made it a success. Then he
became a "country lawyer," just like
Lincoln, and became famed for his
wit, his legal attainments and his gen-
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When Clark was elected to the Mis
souri legislature he at once became a
commanding figure, and it was not
long until the democrats of his con
gressional district turned to him.
They sent him to congress in 1892,
and there he has been ever since, save
for two short years when in a fit of
mental aberration his district sent an
unknown and incompetent republican
to Washington in his place. In con
gress, as in the legislature, Clark at
once became a leader. For fifteen
years he has been one of the com
manding figures of the republic. His
name is a household word. His abil
ity as a lawyer, his honesty as a man
and his services as a statesman have
been recognized everywhere. Under
Clark's active leadership the great
fight for legislative reforms have been
fought. As floor leader of a minority
he fought with such effect, that in 1910
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he saw that minority changed to a
majority, and for the first time in his
tory a man was elected speaker with
out a dissenting vote in the party cau
cus, and that man was Champ Clark.
In their zeal to promote the candi
dacy of other gentlemen there are
those who would have us believe that
Champ Clark is not a progressive dem
ocrat, and that he is not wholly in har
mony with the progressive tendencies
of the times. Champ Clark was fight
ing for progressive principles long be
fore some of the men now claiming to
be the only and original progressives
had been heard from at all. He intro
duced, fought for and secured the en
actment of the first anti-trust law ever
enacted by any legislative body in the
United States. That Missouri law has
been tested in all the courts and no
body has ever been able to .pick a flaw
in it. Under its provision hundreds
of thousands of dollars have been col
lected in fines, and three or four big
trusts have . been banished from the
state of Missouri. It was Champ Clark
that introduced the bill which became
the Australian ballot law of Missouri,
lie set the example in his" district of
holding a primary, and that object les
son resulted in a statewide primary
law. It has been charged that Mr.
Clark is opposed to the initiative and
referendum. The editor of Will Mau
pin's Weekly wrote to Mr. Clark and
asked him about it. We make bold
to quote the following from Mr.
Clark's prompt reply:
"I voted for the initiative and refer
endum when it was submitted in Mis
souri. I was in favor of it or I would
not have voted for it. So those people
who are circulating the story that I
am against it have their answer."
Champ Clark has voted for every
progressive measure introduced in con
gress since he has been a member
thereof. He led the fight as house
minority leader to liberalize the rules
and overthrow the house machine. He
led the fight against the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill, and that fight resulted in a
democratic victory, a democratic
house and made Champ Clark speaker.
This is the brilliant, upstanding states
man that many western democrats are
supporting for the presidential nom
ination. They see in the stalwart Mis
sourian a born leader, a safe manager
and a wise statesman. They are not
concerned about factions or cliques.
They want a man whose democracy
was not born of yesterday, liable to
wither tomorrow,, and which has not
wavered or wobbled in times of storm
and stress. They are not caring a
hurrah whether this man be endorsed
or that man subdued they are" fight
ing for principles and looking for a
candidate who has the' known ability
to expound those principles and the
courage to carry them out. That is
why the candidacy of Champ Clark is
growing in strength and his support
ers increasing by thousands daily. He
is the first choice of a rapidly growing
minority and the second choice of an
overwhelming majority. And if we
can read aright the signs in the politi
cal skies, Champ Clark will be every
democrat's first choice after the Balti
more convention.
THE KAWNEER SYSTEM STORE
FRONT.
You are beginning to see them every
where, because they are worth while.
First, they do away with the obstruc
tion impossible to obviate in the old
fashioned wooden-front. This enables
a merchant to give a better display to
his goods. Second, they are built to
withstand the ravages of time, because
they will not rot, being of metal. And
they are handsome, attractive, always
ornamental, easy to care for, and in
themselves an advertisement of a mer
chant's enterprise.
The Kawneer system is a demonstrat
ed success, because it has imitators.
People do not imitate a poor article.
And the country is full of imitators of
the Kawneer system, always claiming
to be "just as good." They know the
folly of trying to claim something
better.
There are twenty-eight offices of the
Kawneer system, one of them hieing in
Lincoln, and under the management of
the Western Glass & Paint Co, Now
if there is anything Will Maupin's
Weekly loves to talk about it is a suc
cessful Nebraska enterprise. Hence it
rejoices at the opportunity to say that
the Lincoln agency ranked second
among the twenty-eight in the volume
of business transacted during 1911. Ac
tually, the Western Glass & Paint Co.
seems to have gone out and dug holes
in the corn fields in order to erect big
store buildings and equip them with
the Kawneer Store Front. Keally,
isn't that a record that Lincoln and Ne
braska should be proud of 1 . Bight
here at home an institution that ranks
second in all the country in a business
that is growing by leaps and bounds.
That's going some, and it speaks vol
umes for the progressive and aggres
sive business policy of the Western
Glass & Paint Co.
SPEAKING OF WHEAT.
Nebraska is the third largest wheat
producing state, being excelled only
by Kansas and Minnesota. Her 1910
crop of wheat was greater than the
combined wheat crop of the eleven
states of Maine, Vermont, New Jer
sey, Oregon, Wisconsin, Kentucky,
Arkansas, Colorado, California, Idaho
and Utah. Adams county, Nebraska,
produced more wheat than any one
of fourteen states, and more than the
combined production of Louisiana,
Florida, New Hampshire, Massachu
setts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
One year's normal wheat crop in Ne
braska would make approximately
20,000,000 barrels of flour, or 80,000,
000 fifty-pound sacks, or about 6,000,
000,000 loaves of bread. These
loaves, placed end to end, would make
a "bread line" more than 96,000
miles long, or a quadruple line of
loaves around the world. It would
require 80,000 standard freight cars
to haul the sacked flour, 50,000
pounds to the car, and would make a
freight train reaching from Omaha to
a point nearly 100 miles west of Denver.
WILLIAM A. SELLECK
Republican Candidate for Congressional Nomination
First District
William A. Selleck was born on a
farm in Minnesota. He attended the
district school winters and worked on
his father's farm summers till he was
sixteen years old. He then taught
school for three winters, when he went
to Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.,
from which he graduated in 1882 with
the degree of A. B. and B. L. He then
taught school and studied law for two
years. He was admitted to the bar at
Owatonna, Minn., in 1884. He moved
to Lincoln, Nebr., in March. 1885.
Mr. Selleck practiced his profession
for about twelve years. He then be
came interested in the Western Supply
Cow and fer the last nine years has been
the active manager of the same. Dur
ing the twenty-seven years of Mr. Sel
leck 's residence in Lincoln he has
served one year as a member of the city
council, four years as deputy city at
torney, nine years as a. member of the
board of education, eight years of that
time being chairman of the teachers'
committee, and one year chairman of
the high school committee.
He has been a member of the board
of directors of the Commercial club for
the last eight years, serving as vice
president one year, and president of the
club for two years, and is at the pres
ent time president of the Commercial
Club Building association.
For many years he has been a mem
ber of the board of directors of the Y.
M. C. A., Mr. Selleck is a mem
ber of the Congregational church. He
served for over twenty years as a mem
ber of the Congregational State Home
Missionary society and is at present
chairman of the Nebraska Congrega
tional conference.
Mr. Selleck was a member of the last
state senate. During this session he
served on the following committees :
Judiciary, municipal affairs, constitu
tional amendments, manufacturing and
commerce, insane hospitals and school
lands and funds, and was chairman of
the educational committee. As a mem
ber of the constitutional amendment
committee he voted and worked for the
initiative and referendum bill. He also
served on the conference committee be
tween the senate and house and helped
to get the initiative and referendum bill
into its present workable shape.
During the entire session he worked
consistently with the progressive ele
ments. He favored sound insurance
laws. He voted for the building trades
bill. He voted for and helped to put
into shape the bill providing for sani
tary and safety regulations for factory
and shop employes.
Mr. Selleck has always been a firm
believer in and supporter of the repub
lican party and its principles. He has
announced that he believes in, and if
elected to congress would work for,
such modifications of the tariff laws as
would redeem the pledges made by the
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republican party, viz. : to make the
tariff such that it equals the difference
in cost of production at home and
abroad. He stands for the enforcement
of the anti-trust laws and such new en
actments by congress as will make
thenf effective in preventing monopolies
and trusts or combinations in restraint
of trade.
He is a firm believer in the initiative
and referendum and the direct primary
elections. He believes the pople should
have the right to choose by direct vote
United States senators, delegates to na
tional conventions and should express
by .their vote their preference for presi
dential candidates, and such expres
sion by the voters should be considered
by the delegates as an express com
mand to be implicitly obeyed. When
he was a candidate for state senator he
signed statement No. 1, and in obedi
ence to the vote of the people east his
vote in the senate for the man who had
received a majority of the votes at the
November election as a candidate for
United States senator. ' -
Mr. Selleck- believes in a construc
tive, progressive policy, and has con
sistently stood for such policies in all
places and at all times where he has
been tried in the. past. He is a friend
of labor and as an employer of labor
has always believed that labor should
have its just share of the profits.
SPEAKING OF OATS.
Nebraska is the third largest oats
producing state, being excelled only
by Illinois and Iowa. The Nebraska
oats production in 1910 was 74,200,
000 bushels. Cedar county, Nebraska,
produced in 1910, 2,792,000 bushels.
There are thirteen states that did not
produce as much oats in that year as
this one Nebraska county, and the
combined oats crop of the six states
of Louisiana, Florida, New Hamp--shire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island
and Connecticut lacked 400,000 bush
els of equalling Cedar county's record.'
A GREAT BIO BOOST FOR
GRAND YOUNG NEBRASKA.
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Will Maupin's Weekly, the
best single-handed booster Ne-
braska has or ever had, came ,
out in a blaze of glory last
week with its "Nebraska In-fi'
dustries... .Number." Twenty-
four pages carried an immense
amount of highly interesting
matter regarding the resources,
attractions and opportunities of
Nebraska and also numerous ad-
vertisements of manufacturing '
concerns who make good goods ' '
in Nebraska and are not afraid' '
to let people know it. -Omaha
Tradehibit. '
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