The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
ATTACK PRESIDENT
SPEAKER CANNON AND SENATOR
FULTON SPEAK AT BANQUET.
Cannon Uses Word Abnormal" and
Fulton Says "Danserou. Menace
Call to Republican Leader. 10
Rally Against Him speeche.
Were Made at Dinner.

characterized as "abnormaP' nv
Speaker Cannon and as a dangerous
menace" to the Republic by Senator
Fulton, President Roosevelt was criti.
cized with greater bitterness than has
yet manifested itself in political cir.
cles here, at dinner given by Sen.
ator Ankeny, of Washington, in the
New Willard Hotel last night to his
colleagues. While care was taken not
10 refer to the president by name. the
attacks were SO pointed that all pres
ent recognized to whom the speakers
referred.
Mr.. Cannon declared that the present
period of efforts to reorganize and re.
form conditions in the country was not
unusual.
abnormal Mans False Doctrines"
All who study the history of our
country" he said, will find that about
every once in so often period of
abnormal activity, led by an abnormal
man, develops. However, if the study
be pursued, you will find that the
storm soon blew over and when the
sun came out we were still doing bust.
ness at the same old gait in the same
old way at the same old place."
Mr.. Cannon declared that in this
case, as in the past, the people would
soon awaken to the folly of the situa.
ton" and would cease following false
doctrines"
While Mr.. Cannon's attack was a
surprise. the bitter attack upon the
president by Mr.. Fulton of Oregon who
has always expressed great admiration
for the president, made several of the
enemies of the administration sit up
and pinch themselves to see if they
were awake.
Fulton Scores Roosevelt.
| The dinner was a private affair and
enemies of the president are referring
to the incident as an example of how
the presidents own friends feel to
ward him WIN they get together among
themselves.
Mr.. Fulton is understood to have
called upon the Republican senators
present to rally about him to prevent
the president from debating his sue
cessor to the Republican national con-
vention in Chicago next June. He
declared that the Republican party
faced the greatest crisis in its history;
that unless the leaders of the party
rallied at once, the country was
doomed to be governed in the future
by the whims of one man and would
require many years to recover from
the damage to its business and it's pol
icies. Next he declared that the Re-
publican party was doomed to destruc-
ton unless the party leaders "pre-
vented it's domination by one man."
Fulton Eager to Forget It.
Mr.. Fulton would not discuss the
speech today. In fact, he told his
friends that he was possessed of a
strong desire to forget it. In both the
Republican and Democratic cloak
rooms in the senate his attack on the
president is the absorbing topic of con-
versation.
Even Vice President Fairbanks was
SO carried away by Mr.. Cannon's and
Mr.. Fulton's speeches as to devote
himself to the application of Washing,
toms farewell address in his speech
and to say that there never was time
when the doctrine of no third term
| for any president was quite so ap-
pIicable as at present.
Senator Bourne, of Oregon, the orig.
inal third-term promoter in the senate
and the author of the report OF a
SIS 900 900 plot to defeat the president,
declares that the united and bitter at
lacks by all of the Republican candi.
dates or their hackers indicate clearly
that the president will be nominated
and that his enemies have been forced
to fight him in the open.
Mr.. Ankeny shut himself up today to
prepare a statement for the news
papers "back home," explaining that
he had no idea what the speakers were
to talk about at his dinner and is mol
Irresponsible for their speeches.
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