The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-10-21
CANNON SCATHBS
FOBS TO MAYORS
READS la TOILETTE AND CUM
MINIS OUT OF PARTY.
Defends New Payne Tariff Law as
Best Ever Placed Upon Statute
Books.
CALLS MIR. BRYAN "Two.FAcED"

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'seph G.. Cannon opened fire on the
Republican Insurgents in an address
before the Illinois Mayors associa-
tion at the Elgin opera house.
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, and
Senator La Toilette, of Wisconsin,
and their followers practically were
read out of the party. Speaker Can
non defended himself against the
charges of car rule and branded as
false the report that six of the Illi-
nois representatives will join the re-
volt against him. Vigorous denial
was made of the assertion that his
election as speaker was. brought
about through a. deal with Tammany.
w. ]. BRYAN was dealt with in blis-
tering terms and was declared to be
two-faced in his attitude on the house
rules.
Why Fowler Was Dropped.
Representative Fowler, of New
jersey, who recently attacked the
speaker, came in for incidental men
ton. Mr.. Fowler's refusal TO report
to the house the emergency currency
measure was given by intimation as
the reason for dropping HIM as chair
man of the currency and banking
committee.
The new tariff act was character
lied as the best ever passed in the
history of the country. Speaker Can
non spoke for nearly two hours, de-
voting his entire time to subjects re-
lating TO congress. More than 1 Zoo
people were in the audience.
\ Cummins as Bryan Aid?
81 was over in Iowa last week and
found that II is an open secret there
that Senator Cummins not only pro-
poses to join hands with Bryan, but
he says the agitation will not stop
and he will appeal to the people until
the tariff is revised according to his
notion" said Speaker Cannon. 1T
is well known that Senator Cummins
is out to defeat every member of
congress in Iowa who voted for the
bill.
I'm this campaign to be waged by
Senator Cummins, the issue appears
20 be whether the seven senators and
twenty members of the house who
voted against the tariff bill constitute
the Republican party or whether the
majority of Republican members of
congress and the president signed the
bill made up the Republican party.
These people under the leader
ship of Senator Cummins and Sena-
tor La Toilette call themselves Re-
publicans, but II they are then / am
something else.
Defends Tariff Bill.
1.-THE Payne tariff bill did suit me
in every respect, but a majority OF
the members in the house were in
favor OF IL and bowed to their will
in the POINTS where | thought Il
might have been improved. As Pres
ident Taft said at Winona, II was the
best tariff bill from a protective or
any other standpoint that has ever
been enacted in the history of the
Republican party.
| You can't make a revenue bill ex-
cept by compromise. People say a
thing could be settled on its merits.
land not BY compromise or log-rolling.
Maybe that is so, but 1t never will be
50 until Jehovah Himself changes the
makeup of the human animal or
Himself takes command of all legis-
lation.
Takes Rap at Bryan.
After the Mckinley bill was
passed our Democratic friends went
to the country and said it was a bad
lbiH, and they denounced Speaker
Thomas B. Reed as a car. Well, we
lost the house as a result and a Dem
ocratic speaker was elected. What
did the Democrats do but turn around
and adopt the so-called Reed rules.
William J. Bryan was elected to
congress at that time, and he voted
on two occasions for the Reed rules.
And yet we find him in 1908 shout
ing that the house of representatives
has ceased to be a legislative body
and that Cannon Is a car.
> Now Mr.. Bryan is coming for
ward and denouncing the Payne
tariff bill as fraud, and he frankly
admits that he has no hope of secur-
ing a revision at the next session,