Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1902 — Have Laugh on Champ Clark. [ARTICLE]

Have Laugh on Champ Clark.

They are having a laugh on Champ Clark in Washington. A New Yorker told the Missouri congressman that the only real people lived on Manhattan Island. Champ snortingly replied: “Why, you are the most provincial people in the country. You don’t know anything about the United States. Hardly a man you knows anything about Missouri, but let me tell you there are mighty few Missourians who don’t know New York.” For a minute or so Champ did not realize why everybody laughed.