The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-18

ncle Joe: 1.-THE guarantee denosit
t tdW is side issue The vital issue
sais1 year Is to run the country in such
a.r ny I'm that our people Will have mon
ey 10 pace in the banks"
cannon on Bryan: ''He will be known
p ~ history as Bryan the promiser.
~ Oh an the theorist. the leader who
aDandons the policies of last year and
me me originator of countless new ones
me next year. He Is great only as a
Chautauqua lecturer" T.
cannon on Taft: He was great as a
Juuge, q Just judge, who construed and
apphed the law. He colonized the Phil
lpplnes, brought order out of chaos in
the canal work, pacified Cuba and ably.
honestly and successfully performed
every great work he was called upon to
90. think the Republican party acted
wisely and well when it nominated
1908" -0i
A crowd of 5000 persons gathered at
the Audltorium last night to hear JOS
eph G. Cannon, speaker of the national
mouse of representatives open the cam
paign in the First congressional dis
trlct- Mr. Cannon spoke for over two
hours, and in spite of the fact that
there has been much anti-Cannon talk
and printed matter in circulation in
Kansas this year, carried the crowd
with him all the way, getting hearty
ne did not play to the gallery either
he delivered an old-fashioned. Repub-
hcan speech, full of the story of the
party's achievements and the blunders
of the Democracy.
Mr.. Cannon faced all the issues
squarely. He referred to tariff revis-
ion as the first issue of the campaign,
and handled the accusation of his be-
ing standpatter. the fight made on
him by the Methodists and the charges
of ''czarism.''
His able and sincere address won him
many friends and admirers among
people here who were prejudiced
against him and his methods by infor-
nation gained in public prints.
For an old man over 20 years old
and of slight build and weak voice to
undertake to address a crowd in such a |
great hall as the Auditorium is an am
bilious effort, but Uncle Joe did not
mind it. He stepped out on the plat
form like a young man and raising his
voice to it's highest pitch spoke with
all the fire and vehemence of a man
at the zenith of his powers. 1t is GER
tain that his Intellectual force is I'M
bated. He has all the figures of the
governments business for the past half
century in his mind and his thorough
knowledge of public affairs, past and
present. down to the slightest detail, is
wonderful.
The K. & l.. band furnished music |
outside and in the hall. Chairman |
Van SAINT of the county central COM |
mittee called the meeting to order at |
o'clock and introduced Congressman |
Anthony as the permanent chairman |
of the gathering. The laugh was on |
the county chairman, however. as the |
tall congressman from Leavenworth |
had not yet put in his appearance. He |
arrived moment later with Mr.. Can
non and party and Immediately |
launched into his Introductory speech |
Mr.. Anthony declared that the First |
district is the banner Republican dis |
trict. having never in it's history sent |
a Democrat or Populist to congress |
He paid a high tribute to Mr.. Cannon !
and the latters recognition of Sun |
flower congressman in the appoint |
ment of committee chairmen and |
majority for Taft in Kansas next fall. |
Cannon Wore Gray Suit.
A fine burst of cheers greeted the |
little white-whiskered man in gray as |
he stepped to the front of the platform |
and began his address. Mr., Cannon |
at once launched into an eulogy of the |
achievements of his party since Abra- |
ham Lincoln took the oath of Office. |
This part Of his speech was featured |
by the speakers knowledge of his sub |
ject- He hammered his facts into
plain, strong sentences and delivered |
them straight from the shoulder. He |
handled figures running up into the
and thousands of millions like
a tennis player juggling balls with his
racket
He plunged into the tariff revision
as the leading issue at this time and II
declared that protection was the
of American labor That
the free trade idea origina ted in the
south in the interest of servile slave
labor and was one of the curses of the II
civil war. No foreign country in the
world had such cheap labor as did
the south before the war, so they were
not afraid to open their markets to
but in the north it was differ
ent. The American workingman had
to have protection then. He must
have it now if he would draw high
wages but conditions have changed
since then and a revision of the tariff
Is now necessary. Mr.. Cannon de-
clared that his own district in Illinois
had at its nominating convention last
spring drafted a platform of tariff re-
vision and he was standing on that
platform. squarely and fearlessly.
1.-THE factory products of the United
States form one-third of all the manu-
featured products of the word" said
the speaker "This country is what
you and 1 and all of us make it. and
we make it with the silent ballot We
spent three hundred millions for
schools last year. one-half of all that
was expended in the world for this
purpose. Our 80 millions of people
against the 1,5OO millions that com
pose the rest of the earth But then
we need education worse than does
any other country, for our boys and
girls from farm and humble city house
are our future sovereigns. All may
enter the lists. No heaven born rulers
over here.
Quoted From Scriptures.
After paying his compliments to the
Socialists who want the property of
the country divided up equally among
ali. the speaker said: when Lincoln
look the oath of office the wealth of