Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-27
INSURGENTS DUBBED
As 'COPP[RH[ADS'
SPEAKER CANNON AGAIN READS
cUMMlNs AND OTHERS OUT
OF PARTY.
REvILEs PRESS AND FOES
IN KANSAS CITY SPEECH
.we Must Fight tho so-caIled Insur-
gents Just as We Do Bryan" He
says-Defends Rules Of House, Tariff
Bill and His Own Course in vitroIic
Speech.

Kansas City. Nov. 27-"Uncle Joe''
Cannon became quite excited again
last night and spoke a piece which he
intended for general consumption and
read it from manuscript, because Of
the manifest unfairness Of the press"
The Knife and Fork Club Of Kansas
City. whose banquet guest the speaker
was wanted to hear some live stuff
and, moved by the spirit, Speaker Can
non loosened up with typical attack
upon the metropolitan press and upon
those gentlemen in congress whom he
repeatedly dubbed the ''so-called in
surgents."
I'VE must fight the so-called insurg-
ents just as we do Bryan, he thun-
dered.
The speaker pointed with extreme
pride to the election of Moxley in the
Lorimer district as a personal vindica-
tion of himself as a personal vindica-
Cannon -Smoot tariff bill. He allowed
In sweltering language that he and the
tariff bill need no further recommenda-
ton from the people and that with the
Sixth Illinois district returns staring
the world in the face there need be
no fear about the congressional cleo
tions of 1910.
"Uncle Joe" also admitted that the
election of the Silent Colonel was all
that was necessary to put the final XII
bosh upon the disreputable Chicago
press, which has been putting him in
had odor with the nation at large, to
quit business.
Warning to Publishers.
The speaker told the Kansas City
business and professional men that
"the gentlemen who own print paper and
a few hogsheads Of ink must realize
the time has arrived for them to shut
up"
The afterpart or concert section of
Mr.. Cannon's program for the evening
was on the theme, with variations, that
the tariff issue and the Cannonism> is
sue went into the grave in a single
casket at the moment that the oleo
man creased into congress as the sue
cessor of William Lorimer.
Col William r. Nelson, owner of the
Kansas City Star, which has taken an
active part in the insurgent movement
thru the Missouri valley, was the par
ticular person whom Uncle Joe i'm
paled as soon as he began to run loose
ly by way of mouth.
Uncle Joe'' fairly belched smoke and
fame when he flung aside his manu-
script. which he had followed religious
w. Indicating even the quotation marks
when he referred to remarks by Will
liam Jennings Bryan and other wor-
thies.
The prepared address OF Speaker
Cannon was intended as a direct re-
ply to the Marquette Club speech OF
senator Cummins, delivered early in
the month in Chicago. 1T was the
Blccmington speech reduced to cold
and carefully deodorized and censored
English.
The speech which goes out to the
country is destitute Of many of the
Cannonesque trimmings, which made
the Bloomington deliverance a thing Of
Joy from the auditors point Of view.
Hits cummins and LaFoIlete.
"Uncle joe said that Cu1nmins anc
IaFollette had read themselves out o.
the republican party and that neither
he nor President Taft has officiated a.
the beheading of these two notable $50
called insurgents" He said he though
they are at one with William Jennings
Bryan and less worthy of respect by
the "blown-in- -tle-bottle'' variety of re-
publicans than the element which back.
ed George B. Mcclellan in 1864, Horace
Greeley in 1872, or Grover Cleveland II
the Blaine campaign. From what HI
said last night, "Uncle Joe' does no
favor issuing rain checks even to wha
he calls the "Chautauqua republicans
One spot which brought joy to th'
notable audience which heard th,
speaker during the didactic part Of tn
Cannon speech was his amiable refer
ence to Congressman Champ Clark
whom he called a liar by paraphrasinl
the shorter and uglier word" copy
right of a former president.
Bryan Gets Lamming.
William Jennings Bryan came in 70
healthy lamming at the hands of tn,
speaker, "Jim' Dahlman, of Omaha
the Commoner's erstwhile next friend
had to bear the brunt of the Brya,
attack. Mr. Cannon referred to a squa,
of statistics and found that Nebrask;
Is tHS IlCAcoG SedtS pSi Cdplud III III
whole union.
How. much longer are we to hav
that regular calamity howl from tha
Imperial state?" demanded 'Uncl
joe" Mayor Jim" didn't seem t
know Anyhow, he didn't tell
"Uncle Joe" affirmed that he 1
thoroughly satisfied with the prospect
which await himself and the repub
lican party. He said that while he 1
getting along in years he wishes Ion,
time yet.
when die" he said. 'I want to di
a plain American citizen and with TIL
knowledge that I never have turned m,
back on q friend nor my face to tn
enemy ''
"elow Below the Bolt" Issue.
The speaker asserted that he fa
never struck blow below the belt a
= preface to reiteration OF the ade