Champ Clark

“ In the impending campaign, we stand proudly on our splendid and unimpeachable record in peace and in war. Anybody, save a starch idiot, can successfully uphold the record from alpha to omega. It is wise, progressive, and patriotic. ”

“ It is said that republics are ungrateful, but by erecting this magnificent memorial arch to Washington and his soldiers, the Congress demonstrates to all the world that we hold in most grateful recollection the men who suffered and died here one hundred and thirty-nine years ago in order that our feeble, infant republic might live. ”

“ We stand today on ground hallowed by the unspeakable suffering of as true a band of patriots as ever lived. We are assembled here to pay tardy tribute to the deeds of the portion of the brave men who made us free. ”

“ It has raised our country to an exceeding height of glory abroad, and an unprecedented prosperity at home. We confidently offer that record to the American people as an ernest of what we will do if continued in power. ”

“ Our chief claims of the gratitude of our countrymen rests upon the arduous greatness of things done both at home and abroad. For years and years our Republican friends asserted that we did not have the capacity for constructive legislation. ”