Champ Clark letter to Bennett Champ Clark - October 7, 1918
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U.S.A., [October 7, 1918]. Lieutenant-Colonel Bennett C. Clark, Headquarters 88th Division American Expeditionary Forces in France, Via New York My Dear Bennett: There is little of interest to tell. Fred Talbot is burried to-day: Will Kulman’s wife will be burried to-morrow. La Grippe epidemic. I had a wild attack-in bed off & on for 3 days. Am all right again & am careful. Declined to go to Talbot’s funeral for fear of fresh cold. Dab has been in bed for a week but is much better & will be up in a day or two. Champy well & chipper Jim McClintock, wife & child all have pneumonia, & chulling from Grippe. Claude Kitchen has bad case – been housed up for 10 days – better to-day. House & Senate both closed galleries to visitors. Rainy, Leader pro.tem has been trying for 3 days recessess until 14 when Sherley promises to report 7 bill on Deficiency Bill but Frank Noods objects – only thing he has done in 8 yrs. Sherley doesn’t want recess or adjournment – stronger here than there. Churches & schools closed. Speeches Bond issue off. Town in bad fix but weather better which will help.—Papers all advise President [Woodrow] Wilson to reject Prince Maximilians Peace overtures with contumely & scorn. Seem to be unanimous. Even [New York Times], which has been foremost among belligerents & which got itself denounced at Pro German for advising Consideration of Austrian Peace Proposals some 3 or 4 weeks ago, is savagely against Prince Max’s proposal. We received your cable without date last night, Announcing you are with your new division etc. Glad to get it. Talked Generals March & Crowder about it & they both declared it a big step upward & said it showed that you enjoy the good opinion of your superior officers. – Capt. Smith wife called to see me & sent his love. - Saw Judge Barclay to-day. He gave a good account of You. - Your mother continues well & works like a Turk waiting on me & Genevieve. Remarkable how she holds up. - Fred Mayhall still here & chasing elusive office – been here nearly a month. Borrowed Ten.
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As soon as I made up my mind that we’d have no adjournment. I sent out two or three hundred letters of inquiry. About ½ have answered – Mostly favorable, barring little bunches of soreheaded about Post offices, which will amount to 200 or 300, I think. It is estimated that 500 more Dems than Repubs. in army from 9th. Altogether prospects reasonably good – barring fear of stay-at-home vote, which played swath in 1894 & may do it again. about ½ letters say the Governor will be badly scratched. I have No doubt that he will pull in & perhaps pull rest of us down; but I am hoping for best. - This said that Governor Stanley is having rocky road in [Kentucky]. - Repubs. nominated one Multi for Gov. in Colorado & another for Senator - “Gold Duck Twins.” Shafroth has hurried home – Taylor & Keating got to-night. - Clarence Cannon & Judge Linahan have gone home – Edwards goes to-night – Hatch Early next week. - I enclose Senator Reed’s speech on Suffrage & Mrs, McNabb Miller’s assault on him. - I received Dft. for H 37.50 in yr. bk. Stock & will deposit to your credit. - Jerry South. Jr. jumped off wall & hurt himself & off a lumber pile & hurt himself some more. - I still read myself to sleep sometimes reading your Encyclopedia. - The Pike Co. Port has been resurrected by a man from Nebo, [Illinois]. Don’t Know long it will last. - Anyway the president disturbes of the public peace is out of it. - Have have had some nice letters about Auto Biog. - one to your Ma from Senator Depew. - Sutton is in some sort of War Work & has left me. Estes likely to be drafted. Stenographers hard to get. All sorts of help & care at hen’s teeth. - Girl’s running Elevators etc. - Walter Williams en route to Japan to start a paper called the other day. He expects to be gone 3 months. - Wally still has his Eagle eye on Balivia. - Dick Austen running as Independent Cooper of Wisconsin will probably do like wise. - Gen. Dayon, who led Marines dead of Grippe at Quentico. - 9. Governor McCreary of [Kentucky] died yesterday. Your Loving Father, Champ Clark.
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Title | Champ Clark letter to Bennett Champ Clark - October 7, 1918 |
Creator | Clark, Champ |
Source | Clark, Champ. Letter to Bennett Champ Clark. 07 October 1918. 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, 1918 letter to his son Bennett, Champ Clark discussed the flu epidemic and peace terms with Austria. 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; Clark, Bennett Champ, 1890-1954; Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924; Influenza; World War, 1914-1918--Armistices |
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, 1918 |
Language | English |