Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
CANNON DEFENDS
THE HOUSE RULES
ePEAKER DECLARES BUSINESS
OF CONGRESS COULD NOT BE
TRANSACTED WITHOUT USE OF
SUCH REGULATIONS.

Knoxville, Ia, Oct. 6.-( (Spec1al)-
Words of good cheer to the old sol
diers and settlers furnished a prelude
to the answers to be made later on by
Senator A. B. Cummins in his address
at the old home week celebration here
today. The senator has only slightly
referred to the speech of Speaker Can
non made yesterday, confining himself
to the emphatic statement that he rep
resented the people of Iowa in the
United States senate and that he was
working along his own lines for their
benefit, and despite the odds against
him, not an inch would he be swerved
from his course already started He
1ikened his course to the charge of the
light bridagde, saying there were can
mons to the right of him, cannons to
the left of him, volleying and thun-
dering"
"A great throng of people make up
the audience of the senator, and en-
thusiasm is running rife.
The Cannon Speech.
~ The opera house was packed when
the Cannon meeting opened shortly
after Q o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The farmers parade, a big event in.
the homecoming program, had just
been completed, and the crowd wend-
ed its way to the opera house to find
every seat occupied. The speaker
faced a big audience at the start, but
he outlasted great many, and be-
fore he had finished his two hours adj
dress the crowd had thinned appre-
ciably
Mr.. cannon's Speech.
The meeting was called to order by
Cam Culbertson, who introduced Con
gressman j. A. T. Hull as the chair
man of the day after the entire audi
enoe had joined in singing America" !"
MIR. Hull spoke briefly. paying his re-
spects to the critics of President Taft
and declaring that Mr.. Cannon is the
most benevolent "czar' he has known
In sixteen years experiences as a con-
gressman. Then he introduced Mr..
Cannon to the audience and the adj
dress of the day was begun. Mr.. Can
non said in part:
Mr.. Chairman and Citizens:
come as a citizen of the state of
Illinois, a citizen of the United States,
believer in the policies of the Re
publican party, to look the citizens of
Iowa in the face and take counsel with
them as to what is best to be done
now and in the future for the benefit
of all the people. Mistaken | may
have been. Conscientious and de-
voted to the right according TO my
best judgment have been. In 1876
the people began to come to Iowa
from along the Wabash. That year
You were admitted 1t was practically
an unknown land save to those who
iourneyed to it. Since that time what
has happened? Your state and others
have had bad years and good years
The loyalty of the citizenship in this
country has wrought out marvellous
results. They did not happen by
virtue Of one man or by virtue of a
million men, but by virtue of the
whole citizenship.
"If each man by himself had begun
In 1876 you never would have made
much headway. A child can break
the untwisted strand of hemp or cot
ton or fax before it can rise from its
crib. A two-fold strand is stronger. 8
three fold strand is stronger, foul
ptldllut iii eau Is llOt S6oily piOhCH
Therefore, soverigns as we are, if we
are practical we will cooperate
Cooperation Necessity.
Church, lodge, township, county
state and national governments were
never established without co-opera
tion. What is true of the church is
true of all organizations. There mus
be charity and cooperation or ciyiliza
tion cannot endure This is true al
sc of the political organizations
There are people in Illinoiso course
there are none in Iowa people who
get out and say: / won't cooperate;
I am the only proper leader Such {
fellow gets off in a corner and flocks
by himself. He aids none in the ma
tion's progress. Thank God, there are
enough people in the United States
who will cooperate, each concedins
something, In order that the whole
people may gain some desired end
You can't get together and enac
y II l.. .,..I, .