Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-18
CANNON IN POLITICAL.
 FRYING PAN
Cannon Has Encountered Strong Opposition From Two Sources. Organized Labor is After His Scalp.

Speaker Cannon mas been accused of many things, and most of them justly, but he never has been accused of a lack of knowledge of the rules of the game of politics. And Cannon never evidenced the adroitness and skill of the foxy old politician more couvincingly than he has been doing lately, says the Fort Worth Record.
 Cannon has been getting opposition pretty strongly from two sources. or ganized labor, with Gompers in the lead, has been making things more than uncomfortable for the willy old politician, and the religious element of Cannon's immediate constituency are charging that he prevented legis- lation which they were determined up on having, and now they are set upon having his pelt. The things sa;d about him are apparently of no interest to Cannon. He never answers them; they are as water upon the ducks back, His line of procedure Is to at- tack Gompers and Bryan. His asser- tions concerning these two will serve to attract public attention away from himself, and when he keeps them busy challenging and denying his assert ions, as they evidently must, they will have small time in which to consider the speakers seTpentine career. The work of shrewd politician, this.
 The fight against Cannon is made principally in his own district to pre- vent his return to congress. But such a fight is insufficient, because it may fail There should be a fight all over the country to prevent Cannon being named again for speaker of the house, should his own district, after all, re- elect him. Golfers Weekly says that Cannon is the most stationary DO liticaI object ever exhibited in the United States" and goes further to say that if we were offered the priv ilege of eliminating Aldrich, Rocke- feller or Cannon from influence in America. without hesitation we should choose Cannon as the most dangerous of the three"
 Cannon Is a man personally un- worthy the high place he occupies. He is famous the country over for the yuf. earity of his speech, and it is only of recent date that his well deserved SO briquet, Dirty Mouth Cannon, has been changed 10 the affectionate one of Uncle Joe" 4 few years ago he made a speech on the floor or the house. and at time when the galler- ies were we'll filled with women, which was SO vile that it could not be print. ed stars and dashes beTng used in the printed account where Cannon's lang. uaSe became such as to be unfit for transmission through the mails And age has not improved him. He has prided himself upon the brusqueness of his manner, the uncouthness of his speech. and affected a picturesque ness which has not been without it's appeal to the galleries. He has been the anfailing servant of the interests, and yet has tricked the people into be lieving that he is Of the people and their strongest champion.
 But, whatever may be said of the man, it is more with the congressman and the speaker that the public are concerned. He opposed La Follette's bill for the interests of the railroad employees; he believes implicitly in the old spoils system in politics and moral ity in politics Is to him as the inscrip- iions on the tombs of the Pharaohs. Called the watchdog of the treasury, he fights everything which will cost an expediture- no matter what the work may be. Nobody but a republi- can can get anything from Cannon, and an old-line republican at that. Cannon is the czar cf the house. Elected to the speakership, he mas