The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-04-17
Why CannOnism Won

Concerning the way cannon
ism won out at the organization
of the Sixty. first Congress, the
Washington correspondent of
the New York American tells
this story:
Details of the plot whereby
Speaker Cannon saved his rules
last Monday morning through
the treachery of twenty-three
Democrats, are slowly coming to
light. 1t is now known that
Fitzgerald, tool of McCarren,
Standard Oil agent, was agreed
upon almost a week in advance to
turn the trick in the event that
the Republican insurgents de-
feated the Dalzell motion to adopt
the Cannon rules, which was
what came to pass. The resolu'
tons which Fitzgerald intrOduc'
ed, and which were adopted,
were prepared several days IN
advance, and Cannon had a hand
in their preparation. Indeed,
| the whole affair was specially
cooked up, and as is now known,
lit went off without a hitch. Here
Iare some additional details, how
lever, that let in a flood of light
on the affair, and point still more
strongly to the truth of the ale
CATION that oil and beer were
saved by reason of the treachery
of the twenty-three. Charles
Francis Murphy, leader of Tam
many Hall, telephoned to Con
Igressman Riordan, of the old
time Sullivan district on last
, Monday morning, ordering hin
1 and all the other Tammany Con
e gressmen to vote for the Fitzger
> aid proposition. Murphy, it vii
n be observed, knew in advance
!, that Fitzgerald had a proposition
lMr. Murphy looked after tn
t interests of the beer trust. Nc
e Carren, of course, acting for tn
/. oil interests, saw to it that tn
Il Fitzgerald proposition was a
:. fixed up, and stitfened the bacl
bone of Fitzgerald, if it needle
y stiffening, to brave his fellow
is Democrats. Thomas FOrtur
s RYAN had sufficient mhuen'
rel with the Georgia men, throue
). Ibis Southern railway come
y tons, to drag them into line, an
X the sugar trust looked after Il
It. Louisiana members. The sugi
ed interests, by the way, indignaIl
m Inv denies this allegation, throul
- it's friends, and points to u
Ell fact that it, too, was injured by
~ reduction of the tariff on retin'
l. sugar in the Payne bill: Al
of one who does not believe that I
II sugar interests have been gre'
,'Ily ill.treated may examine I
OIL PAYNE bill, and note that t
ge enormous reduction of five OF
ON hundredths of one cent /
nj, pound is provided for in
80. sugar schedule. The above Z
eoS the additional facts that hi
ND been dug opt by the lndlgnii
nd Democrats. vic are still hard
the work striving ~ expose
I'D. whole deal.
raj This is reproduced in .
,b. Bryan's Commoner and t
ma shows that Mr.. Bryan is not
seal posed to discredit such expla
tions of the Democratic ms
och rection." Whether the story
psi. true or not, it places the Den
,rk.l racy of Louisiana in an unen
os BILE light. To have their mot
and linked with the motives OF
Vow like McCarren and Ryan
~ Murphy in a betrayal OF
ary' Democratic party is eeFta
ork; not to the credit of the Louis
owe, Representatives who went nj
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