Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1910 — Champ Clark’s Views of Discipline. [ARTICLE]

Champ Clark’s Views of Discipline.

When Champ Clark inherited the troubles of John Sharp Williams as minority leader in the House of Representatives he was told that Speaker Cannon had a rod in pickle for him. “So Uncle Joe’s gwine to dis-cip-line me, is he?” he queried. “Well, I reckon after a feller’s been brought up on the brand o’ chastisin’ they deal out down in ole Missouri, he won’t even shy at Cannon crackers. It reminds me uh old Noah an’ th’ feller ’t got left out o’ th’ Ark. Ole Noah had been exhortin’ an’ a-pirootln’ round till th’ hull kit p.n’ kaboodle was plumb sick o’ him. By an’ by th’ flood came, right on schedule, an’ th’ ungainly ole Ark went a-sailin’ down th’ stream on th’ topmost crest o’ th’ rise. Goin’ ’long one day he spies one uh th’ ole onregenerates thet he kinda’ hed it in f’r who hed dim’ high up in th’ tallest tree in them parts. -—: “ ’Well, ye old hard-shell,’ Noah yells to him, ‘what do you think now?’ “ ‘Aw,’ sputters th’ ole codger up th’- tree, ‘this here ain’t nary a flood. Down in th’ parts where I come from th’ folks wouldn’t think this here little sprinkle more ’n a spring shower.’ ” —Success Magazine.