The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-30

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 But the ouakers. too, had con science that gave them deal of trouble, and they refused to go to heaven with a slave owner, and the parents of MT. Cannon took him to the then West to grow up with the country. Perhaps they tarried while in Indiana, but finally they located in Ill., fnois, close to the Wabash. There Joe was a sturdy boy healthy, active. self reliant. The Cannons were Whigs. fol- lowers of Henry Clay, and long in the minority. for until 1860 Illinois was a reliable Democratic State, even voting for Martin Van Buren in 1S40, when the Whig tidal wave engulfed nearly everything else. In that early day Douglas, Lamboprn, Trumbull, and Palmer were opposed to Lincoln, Har- din. Linder, and Oglesby. and Iilinios was famous for its fierce political strifes. The boy Cannon was a Whig. and the young man Cannon was party.
 Aggressive and self-confident, Joseph c. Cannon secured. 6 common school education, studied law, came to the bar, and practiced law and politics. He was prosecuting attorney seven years, end in 1872 he was elected to Congress. He was seventeen times re- noHiiHdtcuS Dy HIS party dHu itAt0cu times reelected, distinction achieved by no other man of our history. He served in the National Legislaturee in SVongresses presided over by Blaine, Kerr, Randall, Keifer, Carlisle, Reed, Crssp and Henderson, and in 1903 he was, himself elected to preside over what ought to be the greatest senate on earth
 The Forty-third Congress lived when carpet baggery and scallawaggery Awere not yet eradicated at the South; but in the Southern delegations were A. H. Stephens, L. o. c. Lamar, Roger Q. Mills and Eppa Huntor. Beck and John Young Brown were from Ken lucky Among the Northern Democrats were Fernando Wood. s. s. Cox, W. S. Holman. Samuel J. Randall John R. Eden, s. S Marshall. and William R. Morrson. the last three Cann0u's col- leagues from Illinois. On the Repub- lican side were Kasson, Blaine, Hale, Ben Butler. Dawes. the brothers Hoar, Burrows. Tremaine, Kelly. and Horace Maynard.
 It was among these giants that Jos- eph G. Cannon served his novitiate. This was the Congress that considered Ben Buffers force bill, and perhaps Cannon witnessed the savage assault John Young Brown made on It's author, when, as the climax of the fiercest and and most rhetorical philippic of any Congress, the orator characterized his victim as everything that is pusillan- imous in war, inhuman in peace. for bidden in morales, and corrupt in poll itics." But Brown was something more than the rhetorician. He was a great lawyer, a powerful advocate, ripe scholar, q wise statesman. Years be- fore Philander c. Knox pleaded in tho Supreme Court against the Northern securities merger. John Young Brown. then governor of Kentucky. against the counsel of trusted advisers, took into the courts the merger of the Lou isville and Nashville Railroad, and that part of the Illinois Central that lies in. Kentucky, and was acquired from c. P. Huntington. Browns actions then was prop-etic of future policies. Roosevelt followed his example--an- other case of, Democratic thunder ap- propriated.
 Mir. Cannon was never 8 showy man on the floor. He was a slow growth. No prominent man owes so much to ex- perience. His rise was long delayed; but he finally got a Judgment on the Committee on Appropriations and then his industry did the rest He develop ed great business capacity and never shirl1ed a labor. After all, industry is what tells in this life. Who that saw them and heard them supposed that Joseph G. Cannon would reach a high CT place in our parliamentary history than James A. Mckenzie? But it Is not strange that he did, when we come to know that while Mckenzie was revel- ing in Balzac, Cannon was deep In Treasury estimates. Cannon had a con- tempt for the marvellous genius of the Frenchman; Mckenzie had an averson to detail. In practical statesmanship the tortoise beats the hare every time. As an eloquent speaker Mckenzie had few equals; as conversationalist he was unrivaled. His knowledge of lit- erature was prodigious; his sense of humor delightful. He laughed as well as~ argued, free quinine through Con- gross. Sir Walter Scott's description of the passages between Lawyer Playdell and Dominic Sampson describes tariC disputations between "Quinine Jim'' Mckenzie and Pig Iron" Kelley. Mckenzie was the best example of American country gentleman--hand- some, eloquent scholarly. generous. brilliant, farmer, lawyer. student. art istic in his tastes, genial in his associations. We shall not look on his like again.
 The Forty-fourth. Forty-fifth. and | Forty sixth Congresses were Demo- cratic. Cannon plodded along. gaining a little every session. In the Forty