The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-02
ENEMY RESIGNED
TO CANNON VICTORY
Uncle Joe Has Fight of His
Life But 1t Is Predicted
He Will Win.
SPEAKER MADE DANVILLE.
IF 1T HAD NOT BEEN FOR HIM, 1T
is DECLARED, TOWN WOULD
NEVER HAVE BEEN HEARD OF
-FRiEND GIVES RECORD,

Danville, H., Nov. 2-'I tell you
he fights for his people. He has been
doing it for a third of a century. Is it
any wonder that they will fight for
him? He gets things. He brings work
here that gives the men something to
do, and he helps the district. He is
always doing something for the home
folks. Men come here who would
never be in Danville if it were not for
him. kilograms go out of here dated
Danville that never would be sent if it
were not for him. He is the best ad-
vertisement Danville ever had. No
body would ever have known that Can
ton was on the map If it had not been
for Mckinley, and that's a good deal
the way with Danville and Joe Can
nom"
That in effect, is the way one of
"Uncle's Joe's" enthusiastic support
ers sums up the situation here in re-
gard to the fight that is being made
upon Speaker Cannon by a combina-
ton of opposite interests. There is a
variety of opinion in Danville as to the
outcome of the struggle that has been
going on for several weeks in the
Eighteenth Illinois congressional dis
trict.
Among the republicans who are
working for the speakers reelection
the prompt description of the fight is
nothing to it," Among the democrats
who have been beaten to a standstill
by the redoubtable old republican war
horse SO often that they have lost hope
and spirit there is resigned admission
that he will win again tomorrow for
the eighteenth time. The church
people, who are supposed to be fighting
him with all their might and ingunity
are saying very little about 1t, but the
labor leaders here are as confident OF
victory as are the professional rain
bow chasers about the national head
quarters in Chicago.
Almost Certain Of Victory.
The practical certainty is, however
that the church people will be disap
pointed, the labor leaders amazed, the
democrats again resigned, and the re
publicans exultant when the votes are
counted tomorrow night.
The practical political reasons why
Speaker Cannon will be reelected are
first, that he has far and away the best
organization in the district working
for him, and the second that this or
ganiZation has the most telling argu.
ments. Sentiment and high principle
are all very we'll in their way.
Gompers and his men can lay dowr
the law about Uncle Joe's" opposition
to the demands of labor" the church
people can hold up their hands il
shocked horror at his profanity and
his disregard of their demand for e
specified brand of temperance legisla
ton; the democrats can howl them
selves black in the face about Cannon
ism," legislative obstructionism. car
ments and accusations only make the
republican workers smile. Then they
go out and tell the laboring men how
Uncle Joe" has just put through al
appropriation for a new S275. 900 feder
al building which is to be erected mex
year
And you know how he is they
say. None but union men can get {
job on that building. That mean:
work for you.
ut means also work for the brick
yards and the stone cutters. for every
branch of organized labor in the dis
trict almost, and Uncle joe is the
man who did it. 1t means an advance
in the real estate held by the Demo
Gratis next to the site of the new build
ing, and Uncle joe did that also. How
does that make that Democrat feel
Very Hostile toward Uncle joe Ell
Has Helped Many Young Men.
Mr.. Cannon has been in Congress
for a full generation, having missed
only two of the last thirty six year:
as the Representative of this district
During all that time he has been bus,
on his local" record. He is the in
ventor of a scheme that has enabled
him to give jobs to great man,
young men who have since returned
to the district to work for him at cleo
tons This scheme involves getting {;
place in a department at Washington
for boy who wants college educa
ton. The Washington colleges ar,
run very conveniently for the benefi
of people in the departments, so tina
a reasonably active youngster wht
gets out of his office at half past fou
in the afternoon can attend e,enin,
recitations without devoting all hi:
pls~-
Uncle Joe's" one requirement. To-