The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-23
CANNON
 MUST BE
 "CANNED" Tremendous Onslaught Up on Republican Despot By Congressman Fowler "ROTTEN RECORD"
 IS UNCLE JOE'S,
 SAYS ACCUSER Deposed Head of House Banking and Currency Com. Issues Open Letter Charges that Cannon Packed Tariff Conference Com mittee In Interest of Aid rich and Senate Bill.
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 Enizabeth, N. J., Aug. 23.-A sensa- nonal attack upon Speaker Joseph G. Cannon of the United States House of Representatives is made today in an open letter addressed to the Speak er by Representative Charles N. Fowler, Rep) of Elizabeth Fowler was formerly chairman of the House committee on banking and finance. SDeaker Cannon refused to re-appoint him. Fowler has been one of the lprorninent eInsurgents'' in the House. The following is the text of a portion of Powders arraignment directed to ..Uncle Joe.''
 ssDo you suppose. Sir, that I did not appreciate fully the probable con eeouence of my act, when under took to play my part in securing this reform? COf the banking laws-) Do Eou suppose I was not aware Of your Eenorance prejudice, inordinate con- Icern, favoritism. putrid preferences hnd that like all characters possessing absolute power, malice is the main spring of your every action under
 Fowler recites the fact that Cannon kopposed Fow1er's plans to avert the panic of 1907 and adds:
 Yon literally hooote1 & the ia. 1aeas 11 or
 
 does this bowling in Wall street amount to? The country doesn't care what happens to those damned specu- hators Everything is all right out west and around Danville. The coun- ttry doesn't need any legislation. I ldon't take any stock in your damned iasset currencX.'
 sAs, usual your ignorance and pre- ljudice were all sufficient then. But I3he panic came. Every man who had amy intelligence upon the subject knew it would.
 1 tsNow, Sir, mark this-the bill pre- jpared by those representative bankers which met only with your sneers and Icontempt, and known as the Bank Iers' Bill. provided for about $250. .o00.- l000 of credit currency. called in that bill National Bank Guaranteed Gre tdit Notes.' T.
 elf that bill had been on the statute books when the pressure came. there twould have been no general suspension iof banks throughout the country, no general breaking town of the ex- lchanges, as all banks could more than have met the demands for currency
 sT am sure that all the trustworthy Authorities will say that one-half and tpossibly two-thirds of all the losses lin the crisis of 1907, direct and indi- Irect were due to the fact that there Twas general suspension of bank pay lments and complete breaking down of Jour exchanges; that the public con lddence was SO shocked as to destroy lcompletely normal conditions for many months.
 This is your record upon financial land currency legislation. I challenge lyou to find a single living man with lso rotten a one. It is record of ig- lnorance or political cowardice or 3 ldisgracefu1 hybred of the two. And, lyou, Sir, you assume to dictate the icurrency and financial legislation Of a lcivi1ized country" @
 After accusing Cannon s conspiring with Senator Aldrich to pack the con- ference committee on the tariff bill iagafnst the House bill, Fowler
 q have gone into these details to Hay bare your miserable, contenpible !false pretenses and to expose your Iduplicity, treachery and perfdy to lthat body over which you preside. lwhose bill you were bound to defend land not to destroy.
 'Is it possible that you. the Replb- -tlican Speaker of the House of Repre- lsentatives, and Senator Aldrich, chair imam of the Finance Committee of the Senate, entered into a conspiracy to lin general and the highest rates in both bills throughout for the purpose Eof discrediting the President by repu- diating his pledges and the platform of the Republican party.
 Taking all the facts as they appear lin the case, a lawyer, an intelligent tcriminal lawyer, would say 1t looked like conspiracy. You seem to have
 
 land to have calculated the distances to the various points of agreement carefully, and you seemed to be al- sI most on the point of consumating your understanding when the great un- known factor became the determin- ing force.
 Enough this scheme failed, it ex- hibits sCannonism' in it's highest and Emost perfect development I challenge lyou to cite in all your political his tory a moro dishonorable and disre- putable piece of business unless, per chance, you cite something in your own career, of which the people are not yet advised.''
 Outlining a program by which the House could free itself from this one man power Fowler concludes:
 '-The Republican party will not brook nor condone your contemptible trick fery and traitorous treachery, your dis gusting favoritism and vengeful mal- ice, your brutal depotism and daring 1y desperate methods. If the Repub- 1ican party wins the next Congression- al election. it will be only upon the grave of sCannonism. ,"