Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-08-13
CANNON TALKS
BUT AVOIDS
POLITICS
TELLS OF HIS GLORIOUS
TIME IN SUNNY KANSAS
Fed Him on Partridge for Every
Neal Almost Misses Train
JoIIying Horny Handed Son
of Toll.

Kansas City. Aug. 11-"Uncle Joe
Cannon's love for the workingmar
was almost responsible for his missing
his train at the Union depot last night
There has been heralded about the
country a report that Joseph G.. Can
non. speaker of the house of represen-
tatives, does as the Romans do when
he Is in Rome, and that when he is In
his home town, Danville, his, he
whites dry goods boxes with the
towns barber shop politicians" with
the same apparent enjoyment that h"
evinces while grazing the drawing
rooms of his cabinet friends in Wash
iugton. They tried it on "Uncle joe
AT the depot last night and it worked
50 successfully that his escorts
breathed Il sigh of relief when they
got him aboard the train.
Speaker Cannon did not come out
west to talk about his boom for the
presidency. Congressman Charles f..
scott. and Ed. Madison, the latter
from the Kansas City big Seventh, p"
decided once and for all on this poirt
when cannon surreptitiously deserted
them on the platform to hold a cOnfab
with a nottingham in shirt sleeves
and battered hat, who asked to shake
the speakers hand.
Have you time to shake hands WITH
a workingman? ," asked the stranger az
he pushed his way through the crowd
surrounding the speaker.
SURE said Cannon. Whats your
name?"
The stranger in working garb told
MI. Cannon his name and added that.
although he is at present a citizen Of
Missouri, he had lived in Tennessee
and was originally from Ireland.
"Glad to meet you" said Speaker
Cannon. Il am half Irish myself and
sometimes, blamed if l am not in
clined to believe it's the best half
A long discussion between Speaker
Cannon and his new found friend foi-
lowed. while Charley Scott and Ed.
Madison frantically tried to get the
speaker of the house of representa-
tives 60 the Burlington -sleeper-oVar
which the speaker declares he carries
no transportation.
Mr.. Cannon spent an hour in Kan
sas city last night, arriving an hour
late over the Santa Fe from Dodge
city. Kas.. where yesterday he adj
dressed the veterans at the Grand
Army encampment.
The reunion at Dodge City, which
has supplanted the annual state re-
union of the Grand Army of the r.
public. ended yesterday afternoon. Be-
tween fifteen and twenty thousand
people were at the park to hear
Speaker Cannon's address, which was
chcered To the echo. The speaker
dwelt largely on the tariff, declaring
that if he were elected speaker of the
next house of representatives there
would be no revision of the schedules
provided by the Dinglcy bill. The
Dingley bill. said Mr.. Cannon, while
not absolutely perfect, was as vel
adapted to the needs Of the country
as any measure that is likely to be
enacted by congress for some time.
Congressman Victor Murdock, of
Wichita. who introduced Mr.. Cannon
took occasion during his brief intro
ductory remarks, to urge the immedi-
revision Of he tariff as a means of
lighting the evils which have grown
up in connection with the vast aggre-
of corporate wealth.
During his stay in Kansas CITY
Mr.. Cannon absolutely declined 10 talt
of TAFT. the Philippines or his own
FOR the presidency.
This is dog days in politics" the
Speaker said. "Once a nan huilt
abutments and later built his bridge,
when he went ON "a tou OF i'm
,pc"tion there was no river there. NO
sir, IN not talk politics. / am return
ing from Dodge city, where the
breezes blow and the grasses grow
YOU know, they fed me on part
idges for every meal
Altogether Speaker Cannon had q
good time in Kansas city. After "a
dinner and a cold dip at the Blossom
house. he lcft Tor the east over the
burlington az $3.50.