Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-22
RIPS UP LA TOILETTE AND CUM
MINIS AND SAYS BOTH ARE
HELPING BRYAN.
EXPLAINS FOWLER'S REMOVAL.
Declares Banking Authority Tried to
Block Will of Majority and Was
Left Off Committee.
SPEAKER MUST STAND BOLDLY.

! ELGIN, ILL.,. Oct 20.-Speaker Joseph
| G.. Cannon of the National House of Rep
resentatives, for two hours Tuesday
night, before an audience that damned
the opera house, poured hot shot into
! the ranks of the Cannon critics.
Mr. Cannon, standing on dp-toe, with
his hands straight up and that famous
left forefnger wigwagging eloquently,
ripped into La Toilette and Cummins.
He declared that the time had come for
the people of the United States to de-
! eide whether seven insurgent senators
who called themselves Republicans, and
twenty members of the House constitut--
| ed the Republican party of this coun-
! try.
! Mr. Cannon denounced the charge of
deal with Tammany as a falsehood.
He characterized, by inference, the re
ports sent out from the Springfield fair
that the Illinois delegation would be d.
rided as a falsehood, and the correspon-
dents who sent it liars.
He roasted the metropolitan neWspa-
pers, that assan craftsmanship as indulg-
ing in unfair criticism, falsehood and
1enunciation."
Explains Fowler Removal.
He gave what easily could be con
strued as Cannon's reason for removing
Representative Fowler from the bank
ing and currency committee and which
ed to the bitter denunciatlon Of Mr..
| Cannon by Fowler. He told his audience
that Mr.. Fowler tried to block the Will
IF the majority and that the majority
had to put Mr.. Fowler to one side.
When Uncle joe was not rising in
| all his might and in the characteristic
Cannonesque style of fervid oratory to
1enounce the attacks on himself and
Congress, he launched into satire, fables
and biting sarcasm leveled at the insur
gents, Mr.. Bryan and others who have
termed him 'czar."
''NIy God can all this be true?' shout
| ed Uncle Joe, with a smile that got the
audience as he had finished the indict-
ment against himself
Holding back the lapels of his coat,
standing straight as a pine needle and
throwing his head back, he said with
dramatic fervor:
Gaze on Beelzebub.
Behold Mr. Cannon, the Beelzebub
Of Congress. Gaze on this noble manly
form-me. Beelzebub; me, the Gar"
Mr.. Cannon reviewed Speaker Reeds
career and told now the Democrats got
control of the next Congress, and how
they then, after denouncing Reed as a
syrant. re-enacted the Reed rules in toto
and did it again in the next Congress
that they controlled.
And my friend, William Jennings
Bryan of Nebraska, voted for those same
rules" shouted Uncle joe He didn't
say anything about the Gar business
then or for many, many years. He did
not mention the Gar business in 1896.
or in 1900 or in 1904, but he waited
until he thought everybody had forgot
ten about his vote for the Gar rules
Then in the Denver platform he de-
clared the Congress of the United States
had ceased to be a deliberative body,
but was the tool of this "Beelzebub Can
nom.
Mr.. Cannon then pulled back his coat
and invited his thoroughly delighted and
enthuSed audience to gaze ON the man
" form OF Mr. Beelzebub'
Must Stand Out Boldly
Rising again to burst Of fervid elo-
| uuence Uncle Joe declared speaker
of the House of Representatives who
will not stand boldly for the programme
of the majority of the House every hour
of the day should have written across
his forehead the words coward and pol
troon.
Turning to the insurgents, Mr.. Can
non charged that La Toilette and Cum
Minis came over to the House and took
charge of the insurgents and tried to
| defeat the rules and enact Mr.. Clarks
rules. which would have made it impos-
sible to pass Il tariff law. I'VE needed
got a basketful'' said Mr.. Cannon The
| speaker here stopped long enough to de-
| nounce as II falsehood the charge that
he had entered into any contract with
! Tammany III order TO pass the rules that
were adopted.
Il have no knowledge of such a con-
| tract" he said, with tense earnestness.
We finally passed the Payne tariff
| bill" he said land while all of us were
not satisfied with every thing in it, l
want to tell you here tonight. as Presi-
dent Taft did at Winona. that it is the
best tariff bill ever passed in the history
of the Republic.
Cummins Like Aesop's Fox
But what happened? The wheels be-
gan TO go round. Mr.. Bryan attacks the
bill. Who is helping Mr.. Bryan? Not
| many Democrats in Iowa or Illinois, [
believe. but such men as Senator Cum
minis and La Toilette. Cummins said
there was nothing left to do but appeal
to the people He reminds me of one of
Aesops fables where the fox lost his
tail in trap and went around trying to
convince all the other foxes that they
| should cut off their tails too.
! ..Cummins not only proposes to join
| Bryan. but says that this agitation will
| him 1t is an open secret in Iowa that
Cummins set out to defeat every Repub-
lican member of Congress from Iowa
who voted for the tariff bill.
| "On that appeal i'll the state of Iowa
| it is to be determined whether seven sen
| atorS and twenty congressman calling
themselves Republicans constitute the
| Republican party or whether a majority
of the Republicans and a Republican