The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-29
CANNON SHOWS UP PARKER

| CANNON SHOWS UP PARKER.
"Uncle Joe" Discusses That Part of tho
Democratic Nominees Letter of Ac-
ceptance Relating to the Presidents
Order Providing for Graduated PEN
sion Scale.
In speech at Hastings, Neb., Mon
day Speaker Cannon took up and
discussed that part of Judge Parker's
| letter OF acceptance relating to the
presidents order providing for
graduated pension scale. Speaker
Cannon reviewed the history of the
law under which the order was made
and the construction placed on it by
President Cleveland and Mckinley
and continued:
Nov, then, when that order of
Roosevelt's was issued, the Dickens
was to pay, although along the same
principles and in the same manner as
formerly issued by Cleveland and
Mckinley, and they have been raising
row about it ever since, talking of
executive usurpation. In Parker's
first acceptance by speech he COM
planned of the expenditures of the gov
eminent under Republican rule, and
Roosevelt came back at him and said:
" How are you going to cut down
these expenditures? Are you for the
repeal of the executive order relating
to the soldiers?'
And Parker now comes back in
his letter of acceptance just issued
and says:
" If I am elected president will
rescind that ORDER
And then he goes on and says:
So But after rescind it [ will use
my influence with congress to pass
bill giving an age service pension
to the soldier that performed service
in the Civil war;
II ask what age, Parker? What
age? Will it be seventy-fve, sixty
five, sixty-two years, or what? in
definite still you are, and probably
not sincere, but suppose you are
elected president, Mr.. Parker, and
you use your influence, what will
that bring in the meantime? From
$4,000 to $4,000 or $4,000 people will
have their pensions taken away, while
you promise to use your influence to
have congress pass a service pension
law without stating the age you pro-
pose to recognize?
CHOW, I ask you, Mr.. Parker. if
you are elected president. who will
control.the house of Representatives?
Will not two-thrids of the Democrats
in that body be made up of members
from the south, and are they liberal
people with pensions for the Union
soldiers?
''Let us read chapter from the
history of pension legislation as it
stands on the statute books to-day.
There are fourteen bills that have
been passed from time to time, and
these bills form the pension code.
Who passed them? Democrats for
the bills AT: Democrats against the
bills 64S; Republicans for the bills
LOGS; Republicans against the bills
none.
"That's how the record of the vote
upon these measures stands. Is there
any hope, therefore, of Mr.. Parker's
influence to be effective? He is TAX
ing pensions away from thousands of
people and only replaces them by
promise to use his influence with a
party in congress that has a motor
ious record against that very thing.
"Let me ask you, have you ever
read Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress?
Great book; splendid allegory. There
was Christian and there was Faint
heart and there was Trueheart and
there was Mister Facing Both Ways.
I say to you that if Parker had lived
then that character in the book would
not have been Facing Both Ways,
but it would have been Parker"