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THE LATE MR. CHAMP CLARK.
Outline of his Career,
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Clark left West Virginia for Missouri in 1875. He was elected to the Missouri Legislature in 1889 His contribution to the State's statutes were an anti- Trust law and a ballot law mod- elled on the Australian system. T/T At the completion of his term in Demand the General Assembly Clark was 30 da County District of alreted to the Fifty-third Con-60 d/s Missouri, one time Speaker of the gress. He was renominated, but 4 m/s
The late Mr. Champ Clark, Congressman from the Ninth the Pike
convention
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National House of Represent defeated, for the Fifty-fourth, and I/T Shanghai. atives and a leading candidate ofected to the Fifty-fifth and sub- T/T Singapore. for President. at the Demporratic sequent Congresses until last T/T Japan. in 1912, when he fall, when he was defeated by T/T India. reenived a majority vode on T. W. Hukriede. In December, | Demand, India the first ballots, was best known 1908, on the election of John T San Francisco | a public speaker. Long Sharp Williants to the Senate, & New York.] service in Congress, ability to Clark succeeded to the Democratic T/T Java .... talk readily, fluently, and enter-leadership on the floor of the IT Marks tamgly on a variety of subjects.House, and was chosen Speaker FIT Francs ............. 675 and a dogged persistence in his in 1911, serving until 1919, when Demand, Paria political ambitions earned for the Democrats lost control of the
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tho Democratic party somewhat) His most prominent position. beyond his desserts as a legislator before the public was a candidate states the New York Evening for the Dotocratic nomination for
the Presidency at the Balti
convention in 1912. He Although he had been Demo-more cratic floor leader in the House, had obtained more Mr. Clark was not regarded as more delegates being among the first of his day mary elections throughout the as a parliamentary tactician, or country than any other candidate
a debater. But he genial, likable man,
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ԱՏ al of the party and led in the con-Demand, Germany. and was vention bultoting for some thirty Demand, New York 476 popular with members of all ballots, but the nomination went T/T Bombay political parties at the national to Woodrow Wilson. capital. which
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The firm friendship existed between Mr. Clark
Republican apponent. (. Cannon, Was
Demand, Bombay
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During the summer and fall TT Calcutta years however he regained vigor and Demand, Calcutta and his took an active part in his camp-On, Yokohama.
Joseph aign for reelection in Missouri. Demand, Manila matter Although he ran ahead of his Demand, Bingapore. 10412 for frequent comment with those ticket. Mr. Clark was defeated On Haiphong" Who Took their politics more by approximately 3,000 vates, On Saigon sarjously even than the politicians Judge T. W. Hakriede of War-On Bangkok
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Mr. Clark
christened James Beauchamp, but on arriv- ingat manhood be decided that ho wanted a more distinctive, an Unusual cognomen.
Thero!
were said he too many Janeses,
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April 11d. 11h 47.-Pressure
and Beauchamp seemed too pre has decreased considerably at tontious; so I dropped the JamesVladivostock, moderately at Wei-
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and beheaded the Beauchamp haiweiund slightly from Shanghai 'kong 50 cta. piecer louving me plain Champ."
to Hongkong. It is nearly station-
The act itself and the explans-aryat other reporting stalions.
characteristic. In Were
A depression is still shown to
tion
public life ho always showed a the North of Yap. It appears to proference for the picturesque, be stationary.
in both the form and the substance)
of his remarks. As an orator it was said that he never acquired
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day,
the grace and polish of a trained 300 inch. Total since January
rhetorician, yet he was none the
st. 5.74 inches, against an
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loss forcible. He spoke in a average of 7.72 inches. diabet that of Missouri. #FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS mixine of old Virginia and! Kentucky, with a flavour of the Far West. His forte lay in addressing a Southern or West- ern country audience. As astump speaker in a hat political cam paige he was, probably, unsur- passed in his day and before his kind of an audience. He delighted in driving home an argumen with a story; he quoted freely from the Bible, with which he was, probably, more familiar than with any other book, and how landi abiding faith in the foren of an antithesis.
Champ Clark Was born in Anderson County, Kentucky, in 1850, and received a primary education in a country school. later going to the University of Kentucky, from which he was expelled for exchanging pistol shote with another student.
Clark then went to Bethany College. West Virginia, to finish! his literary education. He was very poor. He rented a mom in! the basement of the school at $5 a year. Fellow students, the Bons of weakby farmers, out of sympathy for Clark, shared their rooms with him. During tho
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T. F. CLAXTON,-Director. H.K. Observatory, April 11. 1921.
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year he was in Bethany College Barometer bote all his classes, but the Temperature... faculty split ever whether a one- Humidity year student should be graduated Wind Direction with first honours Clark was Wind Force finally awarded the honour.
THE YOUNGEST COLLEGE PRESIDENT,
The day following his graduat- jon Clark and one of his college chums want to the residence of Alexander Campbell to visit the latter's daughters. A party of geutlernon were playing croquet on the lawn. They were the trustees of Marshall College, a State normal school, at. Hunting- ton., W. Va. The trustees told Campbell that they wore seeking
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Temperature on the 11th 68 T. F. CLAXTON, Director. H. K. Observatory, April 11.
THE JAPANESE SOCIETY TO DIFFUSE KNOWLEDGE,
Ewos Kung Yike. Lau Kung Mows Thus a vernacular correspond-Orientale ant:The society to diffuse S'hai Cottons "Why," Campbell said, looking scientific knowledge promoted by Yangtazepoos down the road as Clark drove over 80 representative doctors of
a president for Marshall College.
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here comes now the very science of Japan bad its inaugural
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name is meeting on the 29th March, Or Cements Janey Beauchamp Clark. He in the promoters and supporters Do. Light the brightest man that was ever there are over 500 persons who China Light new b. graduated from Bethany College. have the degree of doctors of China Providente n. He is the best Latin scholar, the various learning. The members Dairy Farme
Electrios H. K. hest Greek scholar, the best of the society have reached over
Electrios Macao Hebrew scholar, and the best 2,000 people including learned German scholar."
men. political peoples, business-Hongkong Ropes &
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Watsona For years it was his boast popular
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