The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-15
CANNON COMING.
Speaker of the National House
to Be Here Thursday.
Extensive Preparations Being
Made for His Visit.
SPEAKS AT s p. NJ.
X. e. L. s. Band and Majestic
Quartette Musicians.
Many of the Kansas Delegation
Will Be Here.

The Cannon meeting to be held in
Topeka at o'clock Thursday evening
of this week at the auditorium, will
be the opening gun for the campaign
in this section of the state and is in
charge of the county central commit
tee a nd the First congressional district
committee. Uncle Joe' will open the
Kansas campaign at independence
Wednesday night at a meeting over
which all of southern Kansas is stirred
up and is shouting about.
The Topeka meeting will be hardly
less important and elaborate prepara-
tions are now under way to contribute
towards it's success. The knights and
Ladies Of Security band has been en-
gagged for the occasion and a male
quartet from the Majestic theater will
sing at the meeting. 1t is also planned
to have the Lincoln Post Flambeau
club give a drill on the business streets
just before the speaking. Many con-
gressmen in the state will be here,
present to give their speaker a proper
send off at the state capital. Five
thousand window cards in the form of
paper cannon are being printed to ad
NSIIIS0 the congressman II.
R. Anthony of the First district will
preside at the meeting and introduce
the speaker to his Kansas hearers at
O'Clock sharp. Large delegations of
visitors are expected from Leaven-
worth and Council Grove and other
accessible points in this district.
This Cannon meeting at the state
capital is of particular interest to Re
publicans in this section of Kansas
Last month w. J. Bryan, the Demo-
cratic candidate, spoke to a crowd in
the Topeka auditorium that jammed
the great hall to the doors. Speaker
Cannon Is one of the real big men of
the Republican party and has been the
choice of his state for president before
three national conventions. Joe Can
non does things, and is as frank and
unconventional as Roosevelt himself.
Thos. B. Reed of Maine was berated
while speaker of the house by all the
political parties and called car and
reactionary, but his methods were
adopted by his opponents when they
gained power and this was regarded
as a great personal victory in politics.
As a speaker of force. eloquence and
originality Uncle Joe has outclassed
any orator on the political platform
this campaign. He handled the peer
less One" from Nebraska in his Illinois
speech the other day in a fashion
that called forth admira ton in the
ifornia, and ridicule is the most deadly
weapon in politics. The Auditorium
should, and doubtless will be filled to
capacity Thursday night to hear the
distinguished Republican statesman
from Illinois. He is one Of the very
few remaining old war horses of his
party.
Besides Joseph G. Cannon of Illi-
nois. it is now settled that Kansas will
from Judge Taft Governor
Hughes of New York, Governor Cum
minis and Senator Dolliver of Iowa,
Senator Beveridge of Indiana. and
several eastern men this fall. This is
a notable list of the Republican party's
foremost speakers, as large and of
the same calibre as the one compiled
for Indiana and other debatable states.
There was never such a demand for
speakers in Kansas as that which now
confronts Chairman Dolley of the Re-
publican state committee.
A. w. Smith of Mcpherson. who in
politics is always referred to as Farm
er Smith, thinks that the primary cleo
tion law makes 1t mandatory upon
members elected to the legislature to
vote for the party nominee for the
United States senate.
Il don't claim to be lawyer" said
Mr. Smith, "but it looks to me as
though this talk about danger of the
anti-Bristow Republicans trying to
bolt Br1StOWS s nomination IN case OF
their election to the legislature is
ridiculous. OF course there isn't much
danger of any such movement. but
even if a member was disposed to bolt
Bristow, / am inclined to believe that
he could be compelled, by mandamus,
10 vote for the party nominee. If 1
should go to the electoral college and
should try to cast my vote for some
BODY besides Taft, 1 believe I could
be compelled to vote for the man this
state has pledged itself to support.
"I think this is going to be a great
Republican year in Kansas. Stubs
will carry the state by not less than
$4,000, and there isn't any doubt but
what the Republicans will have a big
majority in the legislature and will
send ]. L. Bristow to the United
States senate. Down in my county 1
don't hear or see anything to indicate
that Bryan is going to cut any fig
ure. He will get the usual Democratic
vote, but he won't get many RepubH-
cans