Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-30
ID DEFEAT JOE CANNON
Organized Effort Discovered, Says a
Report, to Defeat Illinois Man
For Speaker of the House.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Washington, D. c., June 30.-An Or
ganized effort is said to have been
discovered to defeat Uncle Joe" Can
non for speaker of the Sixty-first con,
gress if the republicans carry the
house. He has been tagged as an
undesirable reactionary and must be
eliminated, so the report goes.
Iowa is expected to lead the revolt
against the Illinois congressman In
the first place, Iowa has wanted the
speakership honors for years as a
tribute to her old veteran, Col. pete
Hepburn. In the second place, the
state is not in sympathy with some OF
Cannon's policies.
The action of the republicans in
Guthrie county, Iowa, adopting resolu
tons, calling upon Representative
Walter L Smith, one of the most In
fluential men in the house, and one
who is generally regarded as needing
no Instructions, to vote against 10
seph G. Cannon for speaker, has said
to be the first step in the campaign
Other Iowa organizations will follow
suit. and it is predicted that many OF
the congressman from that state will
have the organizations, upon which
they depend for election, demanding
the feffea of Cannon and the selec
ton of Hepburn to succeed him.
Should Iowa lead off in this matter,
most of the northwestern states will
follow her, it is calculated. Wiscon-
sin is said to be up in arms against
the drastic rules of the speaker that
have squeezed the La Toilette dis
ciples so hard that they have been
able to do nothing more effective
than to make futile protest Not
one solitary crumb of reform have
they been able to bring forth to the
hungry reformers in the Badger
State, and they say it is all because
Uncle Joe" will not allow them to do
anything to save the nation. Some of
them have spoken their minds on the
floor of the house, while others con
tented themselves with breaking
kpver party lines when the speaker
packed his whip to carry out some
his plans
Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, Cal
mia and Kansas are counted on to
for change of affairs in the
e, while scattering representa-
~ disgruntled by the way things
have been run in the house during
the last three Congresses are classed
WITH those who will vote agaiiN
1I,;no;s n,enbar " the Z
1t is said that organized labor |,
urge on the fight against Cannoh
The speakers opposition to the pass
age Of legislation demanded by the
American Federation of Labor and his
fight at Chicago against the anti-in-
junction plank in the republican plat
form has whetted the hatred of or
ganized labor for him. If some of the
republican representatives, booked for
the disapproval of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor are willing to pledge
themselves to vote against Cannon,
they may effect a compromise with
the Federation.
Col Hepburn is not the only man
in the house who would like to sue
coed Cannon. There is Representa-
tive Burton of Ohio, regarded as the
most effective orator, deepest thinker
and profound student on the floor.
Representative Boutell of Illinois is
also said to be good timber.
Should the democrats by any
chance regain control of the house, it
is generally regarded as certain that
Representative Champ Clark of Mis-
souri, will be chosen speaker. In the
last five years Clark has grown i'm
mensely In the house, and besides be-
ing levelheaded, is first-class
orator.
Sir Joseph Hooker Is Ninety-One.