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OF AMERICAN POLITICS
BY
CHAMP CLARK
TWO VOLUMES
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME I
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AOLE
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON;
PUBLIC
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. Birth. Motherless babyhood. Proud recollections of a faith-
ful father. Physical and mental development. Wirt's Patrick Henry.
Bible-reading in boyhood. The Multum-in-parvo “Red-book." The
reading-room at the meeting-house. Story of John Doakum. Story
of James Beauchamp concentered into "Champ." Col. Bennett Clark
at "Beauchamp," in France. Motherly Mrs. Call. Cranky, super-
stitious John Call. Colonel Watterson's valuable hints. First whole
dollar; boyish use of it. Last farm work, in Kentucky. Amusements
of long ago: hunting, fishing, hog-killing, apple-bobbing, spelling-bees,
"playing 'possum." Cold-blooded murder of "Ranger." First knowl-
edge of a President of the United States. . .
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CHAPTER II. Children of my father and mother. Marriage. Children.
Early housekeeping. Twelve thousand people attend Genevieve's
wedding. Bennett learns to ride on a Jersey cow. Value of ponies
to children. Birth of my grandson celebrated by the House. It makes
him a fine present. Kindness of Mr. Mann, the Republican leader.
Tom Bodine's tender article. The dear little boy's death. . . . 32
CHAPTER III. My first school-teachers. Brady and Whittern. Morgan
and Woolford. Kentucky soldiers and gentlemen. Generals Morgan,
Beattie, and Breckenridge, as horsemen. "Two-story-and-a-half
head." Coulter and Prather fatal feud. Cowardly murder of old man
Coulter. Whittern's sui generis arithmetic class. Wonderful war
heroes. Saw and heard piano first on Election Day. First law-book.
Clerking in store when only fourteen years old. Debating societies.
Mule-races. Love of my pupils. Colonel Glenn..
CHAPTER IV. First really great man I ever saw. Played "hooky" to hear
political speeches. Governor Bramlett's pince-nez spectacles. My
"first appearance on the stage." Chaplain shouted, "Boys, give them
hell." Civil War and reign of terror. I heard battle of Perryville and
saw battle of Mackville. General Duke's thrilling escape. Two great
steers, "Buck" and "Darby." Little girl witnessed murder of grand-
mother. Triple lynching followed.
CHAPTER V. Kansas. Grasshoppers. I locate in Missouri. Teach school.
Edit a paper. Practise law. Prosecuting attorney. Lawsuits. Office-
holding. Transylvania. Shooting-scrape. Attend theater to hear
"Faust." Teach singing in public school. Raise Sunday-school class.
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Pleasant recollections of letting off young first offenders with fines or
jail sentences. Unwittingly carry a challenge. Preside at religious
debate. Two humble and noble servants of God.
CHAPTER VI. William P. Taylor, legislator, hanged. I was nominated
for the Legislature first by a grand jury.
CHAPTER VII. The Norton and Robinson feud. Colonel Hutton got to
Congress by Norton's and Robinson's delegates. The "flip-a-dollar"
nomination of Norton. Then came the Clark-and-Norton campaign
of six months' incessant struggling, and Clark's nomination.
CHAPTER VIII. The Congress.
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Lamont. Bissell. Olney. Vice-President Stevenson.
CHAPTER IX. Cleveland's second inauguration.
CHAPTER X. Reed and Crisp.
CHAPTER XI. The Speakership.
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CHAPTER XII. Campaign of 1892. Tom Johnson and Larry Neal. Fight
over tariff plank in convention. Crisp re-elected Speaker. Silver de-
bate. My tariff speech. Income tax. Wilson chairman of Ways and
Means. Gorman's prophecy. A question of veracity.
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CHAPTER XIII. Gorman, Cleveland, Vest, Harris, Jones, Wilson, Hill,
Breckenridge, and others. Free documents. Pensions.
CHAPTER XIV. The Fifty-fourth a Do-nothing Congress. Henderson.
Polling the House. Tammany speech. Doctor English. Underwood. 370
CHAPTER XV. Fifty-fifth Congress. Spanish War. Dingley bill. Ohio
feuds in general. The Sherman-McKinley-Hanna feud in particular.
Sherman and Alger.
CHAPTER XVI. McKinley and Roosevelt.
CHAPTER XVII. Colonel Roosevelt. .
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CHAPTER XIX. The gold plank adopted by Republicans in 1896.