Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-11
He HITS BRYAN HARD.
Speaker Cannon Calls Him the
Modern "Joab."
UNCLE JOE ON WAR PATH
Also Lands on Gompers Without
Any Gloves.
GOES AFTER REELECTION
Winds Up Speech at Danville by
Telling What a Fine President
Roosevelt Is.
OES AFTER REELECTION

DANNlLLE. H.. September lin the
presence of 5.WD people, Speaker Joseph
G. Cannon last night opened the campaign
! for reelection to Congress in this, his
home town. For almost two hours he
discussed the labor question. especially
paying his respects to Samuel Gompers.
president of the American Federation of
Labor, who on Labor day urged union
wOrkingmen TO vote against the Speaker,
and to Mr.. Bryan.
Mr.. Cannon plainly said he would new
er vote in Congress for the boycott and
some other things demanded by Gompers.
including an anti-njunction law that
would make fish of one and fowl of an
other
The audience cheered for several min
utes when the Speaker appeared on the
stage. He was escorted from his home to
the theater by the Cannon Escort Club.
an organization that has taken an active
part in every campaign here for twenty
years.
In closing his address Speaker Cannon
paid glowing tribute to both Taft and
sherman. declar ring he had known them
personally for many years and that he
believed no better nor ADLER could be
chosen to head the national ticket or to
preside over the destinies of the country.
ers, Mr. Cannon said the Two paramount
issues in this campaign were the tariff
and the integrity and independence of the
Judiciary. Taking up the judiciary, Mr..
Cannon said that the democratic plat
form this year declared that the courts
of justice" are the buwarks OF our liber-
ties, and we yield to none in our pur-
pose TO maintain their dignity
Raps Bryan Platform.
He said that RryaD'S nIatfor,,, then
renewed the pledge in the platform of
1896 to compel the federal courts TO grant
jury trials in contempt proce adings.
This attitude of Mr.. Bryan" said the
Speaker, and his party may be illus
trated by the story of Joab and Amasa.
which we find i'm the Old Testament: And
Joab said to ATasa, Art thou in health,
my brother?" And Joab took Amasa by
the beard with the right hand to kiss
him. But Amasa took no heed to the
sword that was in Joab's hand so he
smote herewith in the fifth rib, and
shed out his bowels to the ground So
Mr.. Bryan would follow the example of
Joab with the Supreme Court.
THE difference between the democrat tic
declaration of 1896 and that of 1908 is only
IN words; the meaning is the same. In
| 1895 Mr.. Bryan said in his platform just
| phraseology apd employs the diplomacy
| of Joab. giving the kiss while he yields
| the sword. We. might appropriately
change the name of the democratic candi-
| date to William Joab Bryan.
! Mr.. Gompers complains that the Su-
! rreme Court Of the United States has
| placed new Interpretation on the Sher-
| man antitrust law in the decision of the
| Danbury hatters' case. Mr.. Gompers is
| mistaken. Like other special pleaders he
| puts into that decision things that were
| not written. decided or considered.
The hatterS case was q complaint against
an interstate boycott.
THE American Federation of Labor had
ordered a boycott throughout the United
States against the Danbury hat manufac-
turerS because of d refusal to unionZe
| their shops. The complaint was against
! the boycott a restraint of interstate
! commerce and in defiance of the Sherman
| law. The case was decided on that
ground and the opinion of the Supreme
| Court sustained the decision of the lower
court on that ground. Mr.. GomperS says
| that this decision for the first time brings
| the labor unions under the restrictions of
the Sherman law. He is mistaken. The
United States courts. district and circuit
have in numerous cases held that the law
applied to labor organiza tons. In the
opinion of the Supreme Court, Chief Jus
tice Fuller. democrat, cited several of
these decisions.