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THE GREAT MARTYRDOM
Now all of Mr. Lorimer's friends
aro martyrs. This beats anything
that has been developed up to date.
Wo can not keep pace with emotion
alism In the United States senate.
At first there was only one mar
tyr. He was the meek, pious man
who looked with largo, innocent eyes
at his cruel opponents. He was a
martyr and behaved as such. There
was something bovine in Mr. Lori
mer's martyrdom, but as a shrewd
man ho knew his best role.
Now we find all his friends trying
to tie themselves to the stake and
start a fire at their feet. This is
too much, They are crowding tho
stage and cheapening the scene.. Too
many martyrs spoil the persecution.
Mr. Lorimer will not like this.
Mr. Dillingham is a martyr. No
one in Vermont understands Mr.
Dillinjrham, and they do not know
his sufferings. He and his conscience
and the truth will go forth and sit
in the hills and look down on a sad
and wicked world. Poor, lonely
Dillingham, the outcast of Mont
pelier. The stray doga bark at him
and the children will say, ''There
e:oes a bad man." All this because
he would not budge an Inch or yield
ground before a wicked, wicked
public outcry against a good man.
Mr. Fletcher is a martyr. He will
go and hide himself in the everglades
to escape the cruel injustice of his
fellow citizens, and Joseph F. John
ston, having cast his vote as justice
and truth compel him, will slip away
from human ken and hire himself
out as a puddler in the Birmingham
mills, there to work and live dis
guised for the remainder of his
blighted life.
Another brave and undaunted soul
craves the solace of a tear. Drop one
erently upon Wesley L. Jones of North
Yakima, Wash. A martyr of heroic
proportions is Wesley L. He arises
now to shame that other Wesley L.
Jones of North Yakima, Wash., who
voted against the good man Lorimer,
to shame him and to face bravely the
criticism of an unjust, uninformed
and prejudiced nation.
And so they go a brave and
steadfast band. As they picture the
calamities which have come upon
them, sympathy turns its head and
chokes down a sob, and remorse
howls like a wild thing in the night
These bright lives are blurred, but
the martyrs will do their duty. The
world is topsy turvy and everybody's
standing on his head except Dilling
ham, Fletcher, Johnston, Jones, etc.
TiJverybody else is standing on his
head listening to the voice of malice
and of perjury, but they stand erect
on their feet with their clear eyes
looking trustfully at the sweet face
of truth', and justice leads them by
the hand.
It is a great martyrdom. A pre
judiced and bitter nation which
knows that William Lorimer's elec
tion was bought and which will not
countenance the disgrace is sadden
ing the lives of these brave gentle
men.Chlcago Tribune.
commoner, and gave his reasons for
the defeat of Speaker Champ Clark
In speaking of Clark's defeat, Mr
Lamb declared that the speaker's
alignment with the "bosses" in
favor of Judge Parker practically
cost him the nomination.
"I have attended every democratic
national convention since the Tildea
convention of 1876, except the one
held at Kansas City in 1900, and
have five times been a delegate par
ticipating in the proceedings," said
Mr. Lamb. "I can truthfully say
that this convention was the most in
teresting and notable convention
that the democratic party has held
during those years. It was a battle
royal from the start to the finish
Beginning with the nomination of
Parker and Bryan for temporary
chairman and winding up with the
contest for the vice presidency,
there was not a moment when the
convention was not full of interest.
"Although beaten for the tempor
ary chairmanship, Mr. Bryan was at
all times the dominating factor in
the convention. The alignment of
Mr. Clark's friends with the bosses
in favor of Judge Parker for chair
man was fatal to Mr. Clark's candi
dacy and there never was a time
after that when he could secure two-
tmras of the convention. The nomi
nation of Governor Wilson was tho
inevitable result of the splendid fight
for progressive principles which Mr.
Bryan began in 1896 and which
drove the wedge into the republican
party that divided it in Chicago. Mr.
Bryan himself could not be nomi
nated because of tho wonderful
battle which he made in behalf of
progressive ideas, but he succeeded
with the aid of his friends in nomi
nating the man who most thorough
ly represented the principles for
which he had battled so many years.
Governor Wilson stands for every
thing that is progressive in tho
democratic party. His high standing
as a citizen and his record made as
governor of New Jersey has endeared
him to the rank and file of the party
throughout the country, and from the
beginning the convention was de
luged with telegrams from every
state in the union demanding his
nomination.
"After the nomination of Governor
Wilson for president, the' selection of
Governor Marshall as his running
mate was inevitable. His nomina
tion was not only a compliment to
the record which he has made as
governor and his high character, but
was a deserved tribute to the Indiana
democracy, which did so much in se
curing the nomination of our candi
date for vice president.
CHAMP CLARK'S DEFEAT
The Terr Haut (Ind.) Star
prints the following interview of
Hon John E. Lamb: That the na
tional democratic party leaders are
worried regarding the third party
movement under Colonel Roosevelt's
banner is Bhown in an Interview ob
tained from John E. Lamb, who re
turned recently from Baltimore
where he, both as a delegate and
later as chairman pro tern, played
an important part in the democratic
national convention.
Mr. Lamb reviewed the many
nS5 J11?118 vhleh arose during
the flght for. temporary chairman and
in, the presidential nomination con
test; told of the action of tho Mis
souri delegation in its affront to the
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