Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-20
CANNON'S HEAVY SHOT
Doesn't Mince Words in De-
nouncing the insurgents.
PAYS RESPECTS TO BRYAN
Satire, Fables and Sarcasm INDUCED
in at Elgin Speech.
REVIEW OF THE REED REGIME
Replies to His Critics and Says Re-
publican Minority in Congress
Shall Not Rule.
PAYS RESPECTS TO BRYAN
REVIEW OF THE REED REGIME

ELGIN. H., October cO-Speakcr Jc-
seph G. Cannon of the House of Repre-
sentatives poured hot shot into the ranks
of the insurgents in an address last night
before audience that crowded the
opera house to its doors.
Mr.. Cannon. standing on tptoe. with
his hands straight up and that famous
left forefinger wgwagging eloauently.
paid his respects in vigorous terms to
La Toilette and Cummins He declared
that the time had come for the people
of the United States to decide whether
seven insurgent senator's who called
themselves republicans and twenty mem
bers Of the House constituted the repub-
ican party of this country.
He launched into satire, fables and bit
ing sarcasm, leveled at the insurgents,
Mr.. Bryan and others who have termed
him car
MY God. Can all this be true?,
shouted Uncle Joe, with a smile that got
the audience as he had finished re-
hearsing his critics indictment against
him. Holding back the lapels of his
coat, standing straight as a pine needle,
and throwing his head back, he said with
dramatic fervor
"Beelzebub of Congress"
Behold Mr.. Cannon, the Beelzebub Of
congress. Gaze this noble, manly
form-me Beelzebub. me the car"
Taking up Representative Fowler. he
went into detail and told how Mr.. Fow-
Ter and a few members of the, banking
and currency committee had attempted to
block the party's will.
The republican majority and a rcp,,b-
lican President had decreed that an emer-
1.,I
said Mr.. Cannon. The committee of
which Fowler was chairman, refused to
report out the bill. He had IA caucus Of
the republicans of the House. and that
caucus directed that the COMMITTEES
port out the bill. Still it refused. Then,
by the will of that ma jority, i recognized
a motion to suspend the rules. and all the
republicans except few OF the COM
mittee, led by representative by the
name of Fowler from New Jersey, voted
to suspend the rules. The House passed
that bill. The Senate passed that bill,
and Mr.. Roosevelt signed it, and it il q
law today.
Power of the Majority.
There has never been day since Mr..
Reeds time in 1890. and there never was
day when a majority of the House can
not consider any public bill not on the
calendar
Mr.. Cannon reviewed Speaker Reeds
career. and tod how the democrats got
control of the next Congress, and how
they then, after denouncing Reed as
tyrant. re-enacted the Reed rules in toto.
and did 1t again in the next Congress
that they controlled.
And my friend. William Jennings
Bryan, of Nebraska, voted for those
same rules, shouted Uncle joe He
didn't say anything about the car bust
ness then or for many years. He did not
mention the car business I'm 1895. in 1909.
or in 1904. but he waited until he thought
everybody had forgotten about his vote
FOR the car rules, and then in the Dem
Yer platform he declared that the Con-
gress of the United States had ceased to
be deiiberative body. but was the tool
of this BeelZebub Cannon"
Uncle Joe declared that a Speaker of the
House of Representatives who will not
stand boldly tor the program of the ma
jority of the House every hour of the
day should have written across his fore
head the words coward and poltroon.''
Turning to the insurgents. Mr.. Cannon
charged that La Toilette and Cummins
| came over to the House and took charge
of the insurgents and tried ito defeat the
rules and enact Mr.. Clark's rules that
would have made it impossible TO pass
a tariff law.
Denial of Tammany Compact.
I'VE needed but two votes to adopt the
rules, and we got basketful, said MI.
Cannon. The Speaker here stopped long
| enough to denounce as a falsehood the
charge that he had entered into any COM
pact with Tammany in order TO pass the
rules that were adopted.
Il have no knowledge OF such con-
| tract" ne sand with tense earnestness.
I'VE finally passed the Payne tariff
BILL he added, land, while all of were
not satisfied with everything in it. l want
10 say to you here tonight, President
Taft did at Winona. that it is the best
| tariff bill ever passed in the history Of the
republic.
but what happened? The wheels be-
gan to go round Mr.. Bryan attacks the
BILL Who is helping MIR. Bryan? Not
many democrats in Iowa or Illinois, be-
l.eve but such men Senators Cummins
and La Toilette.
''Cummins said there was nothing left
to do but appeal to the people He re-
minds me of one of Aesop's fables where
the fox lost his tail in a trap and went
around trying to convince all the other
foxes that they should cut off their tails,
too. Cummins not only proposes to join
Bryan, but says that this agitation will
not stop until the tariff is revised to suit
him.
Senator Cummins' Purpose.
1T is an open secret in Iowa that Cum
Minis has set out to defeat every repub-
lican member OF Congress from Iowa who
voted for the tariff bill.
ION that appeal i'm the state of Iowa it
is to be determined whether seven sena-
tors and twenty representatives calling
themselves republicans constitute the re-
publican party. or whether a majority of
the republicans and a republican Pres
ident who signed the bill constitute the
republican party.
Mr.. Cannon SarcaStfcaly referred 10 La
Follette's desire to revise the tariff down.
ward by pointing to his silence on the
cheese and dairy products. which are pro-
duced in large quantities i'm Wisconsin
He said that Mr.. La Toilette sang very
low on this point. and he inferred that ne
was for revision downward for the prod
ucts of other states and where the re
vision downward didn't affect his state.
Il have no patience with the metropoi-
itan newspapers that denounce PARTISAN
shin and party organization. In ninety
nine cases out of 100 these editors want
to control things for themselves.
Grant-Carr.
Special Correspondence OF The Star.