Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1913 — PUBLIC MEN ARE HONEST [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PUBLIC MEN ARE HONEST

Speaker Clark Tells Women’s Democratic League Everything in Politics Is Not Corrupt. Washington—“lf you are going to have anything to do with politics don’t let the pessimists lead you to believe that everybody and everything connected with American politics is corrupt. There is not a single particle of truth in it.” This was the advice given by Speaker Champ Clark to the

Woman's 'National Democratic league here at a meeting held to celebrate the league’s first anniversary. *1 know the 434 other representatives in congress like a book.** declared the speaker. “I don't believe that there is a single ynan in the house whose vote can be -changed or influenced by the use of money—not one." He added that American politics had improved very much in the last- JO yearn, and attributed it to the fact that the people are taking more Interact than ever before The speaker

predicedthat if the Democratic party carried out its promises made at the Baltimore convention it would have another lease of power. • Mrs. William Cullop, wife of the representative from Indiana, presided at the meeting. AH of the speakers, who included Senator Vardaman of Mississippi, congratulated the league on the work it had accomplished. Many prominent figures in official circles were present

Speaker Champ Clark.