The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-02-24
FIERCE ATTACK
ON ROOSEVELT
CANNON SAYS HE'S ABNORMAL.
SENATOR FULTON DECLARES
HIM A MENACE.
WILL BRING SURE RUIN


Washington, Feb. 23.-cbaractor
ized as abnormal by Speaker Can
ron and as dangerous menace" IL
the republic by Senator Frlton
President Roosevelt was criticised
with greater bitterness than has vet
manifested itself in political circles
mere, at a dinner given BY Senator
Ankeny OF Washington in the New
!. willard hotel last night to his eo,.
| leagues. While care was taken NOT to
! refer TO the president by name the at
| TICKS We're 50 pointed that all present
| recognized to whom the speakers re-.
ferrod
Speaker Cannon, In the course or
ms remarks. declared that the pres
ent period of efforts to reorganiza and
reform conditions in the country was
not unusual
All who study the history Of our
country, he said, win find that
about every once in so often period
Of abnormal activity, led by an alb
normal man, develops, However. il
the study is pursued, YOU will fnd
that the storm soon blows over and
when the sun came out we were still
DONG business at about the same ola |
sat ~ the same old way, at the same
old place"
Speaker Cannon declared that in
This ease, as in the past. the peoula
Werld soon awaken to the folly Of
the situation and would cease follow
ing false doctrines
Attacks Uncxpected.
Ibis attack upon the president
created considerable surprise anal
threw Senator Ankeny. the host. into
a Hurry Of excitement He is a candi-
date fer reelection for another term
In the senate, and gave ample evi
]ence Of fear that news of the sent.
ments expressed at this dinner might
larnl his chance Of reelection if thew
reached his enemies In Washington
While Speaker Cannon's attack
vas surprise the bitter assack upon
he president BY Senator Fulton of =,
Oregon, who has always expressed /
'reat admiration for the president
md has been one Of his constant de- Y
enders on public occasions in the | t
enate, made several of the enemis {
] TN administration sit up and pinch | q
themselves to see If they were awake. q
The dinner was a private affair 8
nd enemies of the president are re- t
5rring to the incident as an example h
how the presidents own friends /
eel toward him when they get to-
ether among themselves. Mr.. Full r;
ms attack was the chief topic in
9th the Republican and Democratic
loak rooms in the senate today.
Doomed to Defeat.
Senator Fulton is understood T.
ave called upon the Republican sen.
tors present to rally about him to
reyent the president from debating
is successor to the Republican ma.
onal convention in Chicago next
re.
He declared the Republican PARTY
as face TO face with the greatest
isis In its history: that unless the
aders Of the Republican party raj
ID at once the country was doomed
be governed in the future by the
hims of one man and would require
any years to recover from the dam.
.es to its business and it's politics. CO
ext he declared that the Republican Il
rty was doomed to destruction UNI tr,
IS the party leaders prevented its re-
by one man. ri
Urging them to ignore the president We
insisted that the only thing that vi
1ld save the country and his party tn,
I'm destruction was the defeat of On
purpose of a single man to rule tic
III Tue party and the the country. du,
er be had retired from Office" sio