The Washington times., 1906-10-15
CANNON CONTERS
WITH PRESIDENT
Political Situation il All Its
Phases Discussed at
Length.
VENERABLE SPEAKER'SV VIEWS
Fears overconfdence Of Republicans
VIII Result in Failure
10 Vote

There was much doing i'm politics over
Sunday in Washington Uncle Joe
Cannon and "Whip" jim Watson ar
rived i'm Washington during the fore
noon On their way 10 the Slemp district
in Virginia. They had conference with
President Roosevelt and Chairman Cor
telyou, who seems to hold the control
ling hand IN the campaign. next to the
President
After a talk of some length with Mr.
Cortelyou in his private office, the
Speaker Mr.. Watson, and the postmas-
ter General went TO the White House
and remainer until their train left,
Cannon ars Cverconfidence.
''The only thing naedfm from now
on. said the Spea ker. ais to get out the
vote Sentiment Is for keeping the Re
publican party f. power The only
danger is oyerconiIdenee. You cannot
get up an argument al a meeting
Your listeners all think as you do. They
are coatentod TO let well enough alone
and the fear is that they are SO well
Contented that thry xii not think il
worth while to vote in all my years Of
campaigning ] have never seen so much
politics. and while the meetings are wcll
attended there is no old-time excite
ment."
Secretary Wilson met The Speaker. and
the talk turned on oveTconhdence. The
Secretary remarked. we will have 70
get back To the old school house meet
iugs and sir up every voter in every
toylnship.'
,-shar is all very well. put In Wat
#.=HTse .rHa
want the most famous men of the coun-
try. They are no longer content with
"a mere member OF COnRre.--- but IN
sist on a Cabinet ofticer or Senator
Must Get Out the Vote.
Victory depends altogether Oh getting
out the vote. IL is an odd sort ~ cam
paign. II You talk of Rryan as being
stiu for Is TO j, and strive To make an
argument against his views, people viii
club YOU They are tired of that TT
you talk Of the Philippines you are
liable % be egEed. The one thing that
arouses any enthusiasm is "a reference
70 Roosevelt and prosperity
The one issue that arouses interest
and applause IS the tariff Speaker
Cannon has devoted most OF his talks
90 the tariff. and has always held his
audiences for the reason that the peo-
PIE know tha- the prosperity has come
from the Republican tariff.
Figuring on Congress.
''The Speaker and myself have done
some close figuring on the next Con-
gress. Before we adjourned he asked
me % talk with every Republican MEM
ber did and went over every feature
of the campaign Making all possible
allowances figured ont majority in
the next House Of tWeuty-eight.
we allowed the Democrats four
members in Ohio. lt is now likely that
the Democrats may not get more than
one i gave the enemy a sain of TWO
m Kentucky, It is not certain those
districts viii be lost We figured on
losing five lu New York, bus some of
the- viii pull through. We thought
we would lose one in Nebraska, one in
Iowa and two iu Indiana, but 1 am
hopeful OF revising those figures. Nc
CIeary of Minnesota IS having a hard
fight because the milling interests are
demanding reciprocity. and our Con-
ErCssiOnal committee will do what it
can for him. Within week / hope