Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-10-27

Speakers "stand-pat" attitude on the
tariff
The temperance and church people
are preparing to institute a quiet
house-to- house canvass over the en-
tire district, enlisting the sympathies
Of the women in their fight against
Cannon.
IF we can't defeat him." they say,
1--WE can cripple him and show him
up for what he Is. The fight will be
carried to congress and kept up in the
district until we win"
AS the people here say, "Uncle Joe"
Is buster than a local freight train,
trying to retain his seat in congress
and his control over the house Of rep
resentatives. Cannon, in the face Of
his advanced age, is canvassing his
district as If he were making the race
for the first time and none Of the vot-
ers knew him.
He is holding small meetings ev-
erywhere, and talking six or seven
hours a day. He has made speeches
in halls and theatres, at cross roads,
in the shops, or wherever he could
ga u,r an audience. Republicans
hereabo,' s'.y that he is making the
Stiffest fight to get back to congress
Ia has ever made in his long career
Not many persons in the district
will dare to say that Cannon will not
be reelected. This district has nor
NAL Republican majority of about
$500, and two years ago gave the
speaker abour 10000 over his oppo-
nent.
This is the eighteenth time Cannon
has run for congress in this district.
He has never been defeated but once;
that was in 1890.
Cannon spoke last night to a meet
ing of coal miners at Georgetown, and
came into Danville shortly before IL
o'clock He came to the hotel here,
met his secretary, and left ten minutes
later on a trolley car for Champaign,
arriving there at midnight. When he
left here this morning he looked for
ward to talking about six hours today.
The agencies making for Cannon's
defeat this year are the sullenness Of
the working men and labor unionists
toward his candidacy and the active,
open, aggressive and spirited opposi-
ton of the Anti-Saloon League, COM
pretending the temperance vote gen.
nI pf hn Mnfhn1fofo
church people.
The Methodists, at their conferences
and church meetings, have denounced
Cannon as an unfit and unworthy per-
son to represent the district in con-
gress. The Anti-Saloon League and
temperance people have gone further
and are endeavoring, in the event of
their failure to prevent his election,
to keep him out Of the speakers
chair. They have carried the organ
lied crusade against "Cannonism" in
to other states.
In Wisconsin nominees for congress
are defending the nomination Of Taft
by saying that If the president had
not dictated the selection Of the Sec
retary of war it would have meant the
nomination of Cannon.
/ In other states as has been told,
Republican congressman are making
the fight for reelection on the prom
Use not to vote for Cannon for speaker
So that, If the speaker wins his
fight here, he will have another fight
in Washington when the new congress
assemblies to retain his pre-eminence
and power 1t is rather dreary pros
pect for a man full Of years, and Mr.
Cannon is not enjoying it. His temper
is not sweet, and his homely philos-
ophy has been shelved. standing
pat" in not enough; he has been fore
ed against the wall in a fight for his
political life.
Clinton Bell, Of Clark county, is op-
posing Mr. Cannon as the nominee of
the Democrats. He is taking advan-
tage of the situation and the feeling
against "Cannonism." In substance, he
has told the voters of the district that
he is not making the race for congress
as a Democrat, but as a friend OF
temperance and temperance legisla-
ton, a friend of labor and generous
labor laws. and a foe of tyranny"
and the rule Of a 'czar" over the
house of representatives.
Bell Is for Bryan and all the planks
of the Denver platform but in addi-
ton, he is telling the disaffected ele-
ments in the district that he will sup
port and champion their cause. Bell
is a veteran of the civil war.
Protests of the Methodist ministers
and bishops and the church confer
ences, and the activities Of the Anti
Saloon League and temperance people
are supplying the noise and the sur
face activity Of the campaign against
Cannon, but the speaker and his lieu
tenants are more concerned about
bringing a smile upon the face of
labor
Let 'em resolute," said a Cannon
worker; they don't live in the dis
trict and haven't many votes mere.
We must stand or fall as the labor
vote is with or against us.
Some of Mr.. Cannons lieutenants
claim to have discovered the presence
in the district of twenty-five or more
Gompers men who are paid 81 per
day and expenses to create sentiment
against the speaker among union men.
Cannon has his own agents at work
among the railway shop men and
miners.
An Unexpected Check.