The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-14
PASSING OF SPEAKER CANNON.


Samuel Gompers, in a report to the
Federation after his return from Hi
nois. made the assertion that Speaker
Cannon would be defeated. Those who
remembered the campaign of two years
ago, when the labor leader tried to de-
feat the speaker. did not take much
stock in the assertion. At the present
time. however. the indications bear out
the statement made by Mr. Gompers.
While the laboring people are hot on
the trail Of Mr.. Cannon and the farm
ers have grown tired of the methods
used by the ear of the house In the in
terest of the trusts, new element of
discord has been injected into the Re
publican ranks i'm the Danville district
in Illinois
The recent conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church appointed a
temperance committee of representa-
tive ministers and laymen, Governor ].
Frank Hanly of Indiana and Governor
f. w. Hoch of Kansas. both Republic
cans, being two of the most distin-
guished members. The appointment
of the committee was the outcome of
the refusal of the speaker to allow a
vote upon the Littlef1eld bill regarding
the interstate shipment of liquor The
committee began an active campaign
as soon as appointed. John J. Jenkins
of Wisconsin, chairman of the house ju-
dietary committee. one of the chief in
Ct.
blocking legislation, was defeated in the
recent primaries for denomination, and
the Methodist vote cut a big figure
Now it is Speaker Cannon's turn to
face the music. In the current issue of
the Northwestern Christian Advocate,
one of the ablest and most influential
religious journals in the United States.
eighteen bishops have united i'm
symposium in which they denounce Mr..
Cannon and urge the necessity of his
defeat at the polls in November These
churchmen are not politicians and have
no interest at stake in the election save
a desire for an immediate return to
representative form of government
which is impossible so long as such men
as Joseph G. Cannon control the action
Of the Republican party.
Following are some extracts from the
comment of these eighteen Methodist
bishops who advocate the defeat of
Uncle joe"
JOHN II. VINCENT-I unqualifiedly in
dorse the attitude of the Methodist Tenn
perance society toward Speaker Cannon
1T
stand Ito a man. In favor of the appeal
IL makes.
D. A GOODSELL-My sympathy is
wholly with the Littlefield bill / hope
our people will vote for anything or any
body who will do what he can 10 cripple
the liquor traffic. Independent of the
present case IL has for years seemed to
me a monstrOus thing that the speaker of
the house should he able to say what the
house should or should not act on. He
was intended TO be the servant and not
the master of the house.
FRANK NJ. BRlSTOL-The emergency
which the speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives has precipitated is so grave that
members of his political party have abun-
dant cause for Withholding their support
from him at the organization of the next
house.
WILLIAM A. QUAYLE-I consider the
attitude OF Speaker Cannon. as represent
ed in his conversation with the committee
from the Methodist general conference. TO
be wholly inexplicable and wholly unjus-
tiflable. His tone throughout was the
tone OF a special pleader Speaker
Cannon nor anybody else must stand in
the way of the moral advantage in Amer
lea.
EDWIN H HUGHES-lf | were in Can
mons district / would not vote for his
nomination. II / were voter in his dis
trict / would not vote for his return TO
congress- If / were member OF con-
gress | would not vote for his reelection
as speaker
ROBERT- M'INTYRE-He (Cannon) null
lifies the peoples will by hindering legis-
lation in the house. He must be dislodged,
that the flood of moral indignation against
the rum traffic may sweep II into the, pit.
WILLIAM +. MDOWELL-The speaker