Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1912 — TELLS OF DISAPPOINTMENT [ARTICLE]

TELLS OF DISAPPOINTMENT

Calls Commoner False Friend to Husband. Washington, July 3 —Following receipt of news that Governor Wilson had been nominated at Baltimore, Mrs. Champ Clark, who had been receiving the ballot returns in the Speaker’s ante-room, sent word to the press gallery of the house that she wished* to talk to newspaper men. The members of the gallery responded to- her invitations. She was plainly excited, her eyes glistened and he 1 * mouth was set in a firm, straight 'me that betokened extreme nervousness. “Be seated, boys,” said Airs. Clark. Then she rose from her own chair and approached the group. “Feel my pulse,” she said, extending her wrist to each of the correspondents in turn. “Is it not strong, is that the pulse of an excited, overwrought woman? “I am not excited. lam g-avely and greviously disappointed. For twelve years I have shared my husband with the democratic party. “The party has been, ihy only rival. lam done with it. “The junior member of the firm of Clark & Clark is done. “I have known for all these twelve years that William Jennings Bryan was a false friend to my husband. I have W'arned him Over and over again, “Mr. Bryan is too selfish, too self-centered to be a fhend to; any one. He has, under the cover of this false friendship, been Champ’s foe. He even w r ent so far at one time as to go into Clark's own district in an endeavor to defeat him. ) > “Mr. Bryan, has his candidate, Mr. Wilson. Let him elect him!” Mrs. Clark was attired in a suit of dark blue and golden brown changeable silk. She wore a large black picture hat with black ostrich tips. - 1 H