The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-24
BOLT The PARTY
GuIp Down Cannon And Vote For
Despot's Rule
they ARE TRAITORS

And Should be Treated rs Such-The
Insurgents Stand True to Their
Promises and Vote With Faithful
Democrats to Curb the Arbitrary |
Power Of Speaker Cannon.
Washington, March 15.-Speaker
Cannon is still on top in the House,
but if it had not been for the votes
of twenty-three traitors in the Dem
ocratic ranks he would have been
routed horse, foot and dragon, and
his despotic power in the House
would have been e. thing of the past.
It is supposed that these recreant
Democrats voted as they did because
Sneaker Cannon had promised them
extra good committee appointments.
This will come out when the COM
mittees are appointed if it is true.
At one time the Democrats and
insurgents defeated Speaker Cannon's
autocratic rules, but when Champ
Clark proposed to adopt the resolu-
ton agreed on in the Democratic
caucus for general revision Of the
rules, % Democrats, including five
Georgia members, bolted and voted
with the machine Republicans for
mild revision proposed by Fitzger-
aid of New York, who led the bolt,
and the boilers and the Cannon Re-
oublicans voted to give Cannon the
power of appointing committees, in
| ciuding the rules committee, with
practically the same powers as be-
fore.
The five Georgia traitors were
Livingston, Griggs, Howard, Edwards
and Lee. The insurgents stood man
fully to their guns and the fight
against Cannon would have been won
except for the bolt Of the Demo-
Gratis, all Of whom should be excluded
from future Democratic caucuses, as
they have proven untrue to their par
ty at vital time.
| The bolt of Fitzgerald was gen
early expected. He has been slated
nv Cannon as a member of the i'm
portant committee on rules. II the
Democrats had won their fight to-
day the appointment Of committees
would hare been taken out Of the
speakers hands and Fitzgerald
would have missed the appointment
It is expected that all the boilers
will be given good committee as
signments. Only nine Of them are
from the South, the FIVE Georgians
Broussard and Estopinal from Loui'
siana, who, by the way, are nearly
always counted on to vote with the
Republicans, Sparkman Of Florida
and Moon Of Tennessee.
Six of them were New Workers
the Tammany crowd, the other eight
are from different Northern anl
Western States
The regular Democrats are very
much wrought up over the actor
of the boilers, who may be ruled Out
of the party CAUCUS, because the
Denver platform is SO explicit upor
the question Of revising the rule:
of the house so as to take the auto
cratic power away from the speaker
The rules adopted, it is true, take
away small modicum of this pow
er, but leave him with the most i'm
portant and most dangerous power
The Capnonites are jubilant TO-
night, for although they did not gel
all they wanted, they got the com
promise which it is believed had the
sanction beforehand of Mr.. Cannon
an as soon as it was proposed BY
Mr.. Fitzgerald word was passed
around among the Cannon Republi.
cans to vote for it, as it was al
right
Another reason why it is generally
believed that the Fitzgerald substi-
tute was prearranged with Mr.. Can.
non is that the speaker was quick
to recognize Fitzgerald after the pre-.
vious question on the Democratic res
olution was voted down. Several
wanted to be recognized but the
speaker somehow saw only Mr.. Fitz-
gerald.