Champ Clark letter to Bennett Champ Clark - October 7, 1917
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October 7, 1917. Dear Bennett: This done. Congress adjourned at 3 P.M. yesterday. The House gave me a great ovation. Genevieve and Champie left at 10:45 last night - got off in very good shape. He grew a good deal while here. Your mother is well and is reading upon John Hay & writing an article about his Snobbishness (and he was a Snob) to punish his daughter, Senator Wadsworth’s wife, for being Chairman of Anti-Suffrage Association! I told her to let it alone but she vows she will not. You may remember that I took a fallout of him for begging in politics & the Tariff in his oration on Wm. McKinley. I have been hard at work all day packing up, Cleaning up my desk and correcting proofs of Hearst Magazine articles. I have sent them 12 & may write two or three more. Will talk to you about them when I see you which I hope will be next Sunday. We not expect to leave here next Friday
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[page 2] on the 6:10 P.M. Pa. Train, arriving in St. Louis somewhat about 6 P.M., thence same night by Frisco to Lawton, arriving there somewhat afternoon Sunday. We are going straight through to Lawton. If for any reason schedule is changed will wire you. I am sending you saturday’s Record which contains proceding’s on Tom Heflins case. He has been bitterly assailed as a liar, was licked & finally was proved a liar by two witnesses - a fine defender of the Faith and mouthpiece for the administration. I have been well since you left except that I had a bad Cold for 3 or 4 days a week ago but am all right now. The necessity of presiding constantly to prevent riots put me behind with my work and it will take till Friday to catch up. Bill for your mother’s trunk came to your address to-day - I will pay it. Mann is still away - sick but reported to be getting better.
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[page 3] Dunklin County has a fair C.M. Hay spoke and senator Ely got his resolutions through denouncing Stone & Reed and the Republic was much gratified. Your Loving Father Champ Clark Ed Taylor is to marry Miss Needham in a day or two. Ted Stafford married yesterday. [October] 8 Received your telegram this morning & will do all I can of what you want done.
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| Title | Champ Clark letter to Bennett Champ Clark - October 7, 1917 |
| Creator | Clark, Champ |
| Source | Clark, Champ. Letter to Bennett Champ Clark. 07 October 1917. Clark, Champ (1850-1921) and Bennett Champ (1890-1954), Papers, 1853-1973. C0666. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO. |
| Description | In this October 7, 1917 letter to his son Bennett, Champ Clark discussed Tom Heflin's trial. Heflin accused members of the House of being paid by Germans, but in October of 1917, an investigating committee determined that the accusation was false. Champ Clark, a long-time resident of Bowling Green, Missouri, was a politician in the Democratic Party. He served as a representative of Missouri from 1893 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1921. From 1911 to 1919 he served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Bennett Clark served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the 140th Regiment, 35th Division and as Assistant Chief of Staff for the 88th Division during World War I, and was Missouri State Senator from 1933 to 1945. |
| Subject LCSH | Clark, Champ, 1850-1921; United States. Army. Camp Doniphan (Okla.); Clark, Bennett Champ, 1890-1954; Fort Sill (Okla.); World War, 1914-1918; Missouri. National Guard; Heflin, James Thomas, 1869-1951; Suffragists |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | C0666 |
| Contributing Institution | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
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| Date Original | October 7, 1917 |
| Language | English |