The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-11
SPEAKER CANNON
|kD|CiS COMP[RS
DECLARES LABOR LEADER WANT.
ED CONGRESS TO FAVOR
TRADE BOYCOTT.
BRYAN IS TREAC .EROUS
Prociaims Respect For Courts While
Stabbing Them Under Fifth
Rh--Bble Story of "Joab
and Amasa."

DanyiIle, H., Sept lO.--Speakcr
Cannon tonight opened his campaign
for reelection to congress in his home
town. Almost his entire address of
nearly two hours was devoted to the
labor question. He paid his respects
to Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation or LABOR, who
spoke here on Labor Day and attack
ed Speaker Cannon, inviting union
workingmen to vote against him. Tie
speaker plainly said he had never
voted in congress for a boycott and
for some other things demanded by
labor leaders, including the anti-in-
junction law that would make fish of
one and fowl of another.
Cannon was greeted by an audience
of 5000 who cheered for several mir
utes when he appeared on the stage.
He was escorted from his home tC
the theater by the Cannon Escort
Club, an organization that has taken
an active part in every campaign here
for twenty years.
The Speech.
Following is almost a full text OF
the Speakers address which is coL-
sidered one of the strongest of the
campaign. and was received with
much applause:
liz leading up to a reply to Mr..
Campers, Mr. Cannon said that there
were two paramount issues in this
campaign one was the tariff ami the
other the integrity and independence
OF the judiciary. After devoting con
siderable attention to the position of
the two leading parties on the tariff
question and discussing prosperity,
financial depression and the prime
place held by the United States In
commercial affairs. Mr. Cannon con
cluded that the depression OF last
October did not affect the farmers
who constitute one.third Of the popu
lation and that the people in the ag
gregate were never in so good con
dition to withstand a depression and
that the country was fast recovering
from its effect He believed that pros
percus times eqraling those of the
last few years had already returned.
Case of Joab and Amasa.
Taking mp the judiciary Mr. Can
non said that the Democratic plat
form this year declared that the
courts of Justice are the bulawrks Of
our liberties, and we yield to none in
our purpose to maintain their dig
nifty" He said that Mr. Bryans plat
form then renewed the pledge in the
platform of 1896 to compel the fed
eral courts to grant jury trials in con
tempt proceedings. This attitude OF
Mr.. Eryan," said the speaker, 'and
his party may be illustrated by the
story of Joab and Amasa. which we
fiAd ir the Old Testament. And
Jodb said TO Amasa, art thou in
health my brother?' And Joab took
Amasa by the beard with the right
hand to kiss him. But Amasa took
no heed to the sword that was in
Joab's hand; so he smote him there.
with in the fifth rib and, shed out bis
bowels to the ground. So Mr. Bryan
would follow the example of Joab
with the supreme court,
"The federal judiciary is a coor
dinaje department Of the government, !
50 declared by the constitution. The
writ of injunction and the power to
punish for contempt is older than our
constitution: and the constitution
recognizes the Independence of the
judiciary and especially declares:
Tho judicial powers shall extend to
all cases in law and equity arising
under this constitution
"Thc difference between the Demo !
cratic declaration of 1896 aud that Of
1908 is only in words: the meaning is
the same. In 1896 Mr. Bryan said in
his platform Just what be meant. This
wear he seeks softer phraseology and
employs the diplomacy of Ioab. Civ
ing the kiss while he wields the
sword.
We might appropriately change the
name of the Democratic candidate to
William Ioab Bryan"
History Of Injunction.
Mr. Cannon then took up the his
tor Of the demand for antiiniunction I
legislation and pointed out that the
deriand for a jury trial in contempt
proceedings came first after the pun
ishnent Of Eugene Y. Debs. now can
didate for president on the Socialist
ticket. but in 1894 the leader Of the
railroad strike. He referred to the
calling Of federal troops to Chicago
bv President Cleveland and recitei
the history Of the attempt by various
congressman to pass law in 1896 to
take from the courts the power TO
grant iniunctiOns in labor disputes
ana their power TO punish for con-
ten1rt. He said that while the bill
was rassed by a Democratic senate
an June 10. 1896, the day the Fifty
al