Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-08-20
DOOMED FOR PRESIDENT IN HIS
HOME TOWN.
CLAIMS ALL THE EARTH
Defies Gompers-Thirty Years Repre-
sentative of One Oistrict-Lauds
President and Congress-Says He
Has Trod All the Paths IF
Toll.

Danvilie, Ill, Aug. 17.-Joseph G.
Cannon, speaker of the national house
of representatives, was ren0minated
unanimously for congress by the re-
publican congressional convention
mere yesterday and given credentials
setting forth the belief of the dele
gates that he is the fittest candidate
of the republican party for the office
of president OF the United States. The
speech which Speaker Cannon de-
livered to the convention after the
nomination defies Samuel Gompers,
president of the American federation
of labor, in the labor crusade over the
anti-injunction bill. The key note
sounded by Speaker Cannon was
stand pat" He praised the tariff 20
the smallest letter of the Dingley bill
and stated emphaticaIly that the tar
if should be revised only when revision
would do more good than harm. The
last part of the address dealt with
President Roosevelt, whom he prais 81
unstintedly.
Speaker Cannon has been in con-
gress for 80 years consecutively. Tx
cept for his first term ne has always
been nominated by reclamation.
For 80 years." he said. Il have
represented a district where nearly
all the constituency have lived and
are living, by their labor. They are
those like unto them stand for Law
and order, for protection of property,
and the inalienable rights of every
citizen. Those who labor have trod,
and are treading, no path that l have
not trod, and that my descendants
will not tread. The organized labor
that Mr. GOmpers claims to represent
is composed of people who have the
right to organize. They are of all
churches and of no church; they are
skilled and unskilled; they belong to
all the different parties; they are as
intelligent and as patriotic as any
other equal number of citizens of the
republic In the transaction Of the
business of their organization l have
no doubt that they will cooperate with
those who from time to time they
place in authority, but in their party
Affiliations, in choosing the politics of
the republic, l am ready to take my
chances with them, and this too with
out regard to the demands of Mr.
Gompers when he seeks to control
their action at the ballot box
Continuing, he stated that lin the
executive departments Of the govern
ment the record of the party has been
brilliant, courageous and honest, and
the name of Roosevelt has become a
synonym for all those qualities
throughout the realms of civilization.
He has been the president of all the
people, and he has been tireless in
his efforts to serve the people by wise,
just and fearless administration of
the law. He has been particularly
jealous in administering the law
against thS trusts and combinations
of capital which have ignored the old
adage of live and let live The beef
trust, the paper trust, the tobacco
trust, the drug trust, the coal COM
bination and various combinations Of
railroads and shippers have felt the
heavy hand of the law and learned
that 1t Is strong enough to compel
them TO give all a square deal"
Congressional Nominations.
Chicago, Aug. 1.-THE following
are the results in the 25 congressional
districts of Illinois. The first named
in each case is the republican candi-
date and She second the democratic
nominee:
First-Martin B. Madden; Martin
Emmerick.
Second-James R. Mann; Herbert
J. Friedman.
Third-William w. Wilson: demo
cratic nomination postponed to Aug
ust is.
Fourth-Charles S. Wharton; James
K McDermott.
f4fth-Anthony Michalek; A. ]. Sa-
bath.