The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-27
WY -. Trisun. Is Fer Cannon.

asa member o. congress and IS speak
e Of the house Of representatives:
L Because he IS honest
2 Because he * courageous
, Because ne is capable and et-
Ecssz--
He has the rides experience in pub
&c affairs n the United States OF any
man ROE living
TIE district cannot decentiy desert
him The state cannot afford 10 let
him go TIE nation cannot complete
II I'll his place
The Tribune earnestly desires his re-
election by : big majority in his dis
trfc1 ard by unanimous vote for
speaker By the Republicans in the next
hozse Of representatives We want
him 10 be reelected for affirmative
moi for nssative reasols-because he
deserves The public honor and because
he IS needed II public life.
No Republican district or state or
house Of representatives can turn
him down and retain its OWE self-re-
spect- DO Cannon has been standing
Ike stone wall sgzist every form OF
5obbery and corruption in the national
house OF representatives for genera
ten Ne man can put his finger on MI.
Cannon's record and Faithfully say.
Here he knowingly went wrong"
there he connfved al corruption At
another point he yielded to the tenpta-
ion d personal advantage
Speaker Cannon can cast up his po-
litical accounts when his long ana use
ful career is ended with confidence OF
finding an immense balance in his
favor.
What . truism. an axiom. simple
demonstration Of the rule of three it is
10 SAP that the speaker is the servant
OF the house. Aye, The Servant in
the House" He car do nothing unless
3 he has his party behind him. and when
ne does anything II is because his
party is behind him Is anybody so
infatuated, so foolish. so inexperienced
in public affairs as to imagine that
the speaker in the solitude OF his own
room evolves program for the house
and that the house. without considera-
ton. siayishly takes orders from him ?
There is no buster place in Washing
ton during the session of congress tlan
the speakers room when the speak
er is in it. There he meets all the
leaders of both parties in both houses
Of congress. eonfers with them. adopts
their views or rejects them. and modi-
fies his own as he is convinced by ar
gument or compelled by circumstances
often 10 do.
WHAT puerility It is to pretend that
tie house is the servant of the speaker
instead of the speaker being the ser
want OF the house, You cannot have
i both ways. gentlemen OF the Demo-
cratic party. If the speaker. is justly
10 blame for everything the house has
emitted TO do that it should hare done.
then he is equally deserving CT all tae
credit for the good things which the
house has actually done
II he is. for example. TO be blamed
for not passing unconstitutional meas
ures regulating interstate liqucr ,raf-
fc. then he must he praised for PASS.
ing the pure food bill under which tie
percentage OF alcohol over a certain
small amount contained in every kind
Of patent medicines Is plainly printed
On the iabel-an act mat has no 1a-al
lel in the legislation Of any other conn.
tTT that VIC know Of. Who knows what
pressure. influence. threats. cosxin-
and attempted bribery were rezortei
10 70 prevent the passage Of that &C.
The sneaker knows. Some Of tho nat
ent medicine men know. some CT the
virtrous newspaper editcrs-nin.s:ers
among them-who wanted patent med
icine advertising know. But does the
great public know all about it? d.
the griieless ministers know? Dr.
even the members of congress WIN
voted for and against tie bsli know
all Of the.n2 II they know in part arr
they like Trilby clad in the altogether.
Have they in their travels met tbs
naked truth? Nobody knows all IN.
secrets that are locked IN the breas
Of the speaker OF the house. but til,
people Go know that he never yielded
to any temptation. political or other
wise, thai vas eTer offered to him
however alluring at the time it nigh
sDpesr 20 be-
We say that It takes a rugged char
acter 70 stand NJ against that sort o
thing and that 20" Cannon has 90
the character That is Why we Ike Sin
and respect him even when We dira
from hin, and that is why we wan
him 70 be reelected to congress bv n,
biggest majority ne ever had and re-
elected speaker OF the house By til.
vote OF eyery Republican member.