The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-06-19
STATE OF GREAT MEN
Concluded From Second Page.)

rnyieding determination and the
wise parliamentary generalship OF
Speaker Cannon These same at
tributes he will take with him to the
presidency. Can we doubt that as
president he will show the same deal
ing with the legislative problems of
the future that he has diplayed again
and again as speaker? His executive
recommendations will embody the
wisdom of generation of legis lative
experience
! Speaker Cannon knows the people
and sympathizes with them in their
struggles because HIS own life has
been a constant struggle crowned by
success. His sympathy for the suffer
ally by inheritance and early asso-
Citations His father, DR. Cannon, was
pious Quaker who bore testimony
against slavery. He was an early di-
rector in that railroad from which
/ the Republican party took all the
passengers; the road on which men
jorneyed only one way, from the
dark underworld of bondage up into
the joyous light of freedom 1t is
little wonder that witch such a father
the sens first campaign work and
FIRST vote should have been for the
Great Emancipator,
Not only does Speaker Cannon
know the people, but what is Of more
Importance in presidential candi-
date, the people know him, and those
who know him best love bin best. His
personality is made Cp Of those manly
traits that attract the admiration Of
his fellow men. He has met in the
lists the hravest champions of his
day, Sometimes he has been the vic
tor. cftcn the vanquished; but always
he has been cheerful and stout
hearted. remembering the past and its
defeats without resentment and
facing the future with ever undimmed
hope and courage undismayed.
His opponents dwell upon his years
rs handicap. bu. with him years
have brought no sign of age, but only
the wisdom of experience and its
serene philcs ophy. If he should be
elected president next November and
reelected in 1912 he would at the
end cf his second term be four years
younger than was Gladstone when
he made his farewell speech at Prime
Minister in the house of commons.
Why should not the United States
have her Grand Old Nan?
No one of this generation has dem
onstratcd so often CT SO successfully
his capacity for attracting the con
fidence and the affections of his fell
low citizens Nineteen times he has
been elected to high office by the
vctcrs Of district taat has no SUI
pcrior : nthe United States for intel
ligcnca and patriot SIN. Nineteen
times the seal Of approval has been
placed upon his character and his |
record b. these who Know his best. |
Thrice he has been chosen by the rep !
rcscutatiycs of all the people to FL !
the highest legislative office in tie
land. What living man can give like
promise of retaining. ~ presidential
the support of the Republi- /
cans and attracting ;ae suflrages Of
i e three million Of first voters of the [.
country who can control the coming !
election?
Pcst.rity will revere forever the /
name &c Abraham Lincoln, not alone
because he freed the slaves, but !
rather because he cmancipatcd his =
corntrymcn from thraldom to ignoble
ideals in our civil and political life.
And pnsterity will honor always the ,
name of Theodore Roosevelt net
alone because more than any living
man he has lightened the burdens Of
the weak. but rather because he has I
rmancipated his countrymen from
hraldom to unworthy ideals in TIE
world Of business and finance. Aud
the name of Cannon will always be
linked with that Of Roosevelt as the
speaker who stoos ay the president g,
and helped to crystalline his policies
into law. To whom could we entrust
With greater confidence the perfection
and extension of these policies in exc
1ution Of the peoples Will?
Mr.. President, and Gentlemen cfl
he Convention. nominate as tho
candidate for President of +
he United States the Speaker of the
House Of Representatives. who cast
his first vote for Lincoln, entered |
congress under Grant and crowned a
generation of service as Roosevelt's
strongest aud hravest ally, Joseph G.
Cannon of Illinois.
Seconds Csnnon's Nomination.
Jcspch w Fordney seconded the
Of Mr. Cannon in the fol
owing speech:
Mr. Chairman. ! rise TO second the
of the Hon Joseph G.
Cannon. Of Illinois. 10 not concede
his Grand Old Man of the Republican
lartv to the state of Illinois. but
claim him for the United States. His
work for the past third Of a century
has been for the nation for Michigan
AMI New York. and for New England.
and tho great west, and for thu south
IS well where he was born. He