Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-27
MINNEsorA's FUNNY CONGRESS.
MAN AGAIN HEARS CALL
OF HIS PARTY.
iNsuReENT RANKS SPLIT
AFTER BEING BETRAYED
Man Who Defeated Bede on Cannon
ism Issue Goes Over to Cannon Body
and Soul, and Will Now Be Retired
His Followers Protest and Bede
Secs Chance to Break In.
Especial Correspondence


Washington, Oct. 27.-Here is one
of the cases illustrating the political
griefs which beset republican insur-
gency in some of the middle western
districts.
1t falls out that J. Adam Bede Of
Duluth, positively the most humorous
standpatter and the Funniest Cannonite
that ever came to congress, is liable
to come back again next year, after a
biennium of retirement. The story
whereof is Illuminating.
Mr.. Bede is just so funny it hurts
him. He is the real thing, too. He never
gets up, in the house or at the dinner
board, without having something
strictly good to say. He could fill the
house any time on an hours notice, by
permitting it to be known he was go
ing to rise in his place. He used to be
a democrat; Topped, and became a
republican; and as a republican in the
house was a thorough going supporter
of Speaker Cannon Minnesota began
to develop symptoms of insurgency,
and last year, following a long period
of devout adherence to the house or
ganization, Mr.. Bede went home to find
that there was determined OPPOSE
ton in the district, by reason of the
anti-Cannon movement.
MIR. Bede went out and told them
his best line of stories. and they
laughed as usual: but when the pri-
mary came along they forgot the sto-
ries and voted for Clarence Miller, who
had opposed Bede and vowed that if
every time there was division.
Well, Miller was elected and Bede
took to the chautauqua platform,
where he can make more money in a
month than congressional salary is
worth in year Miller came raging to
Washington, looking for Cannon, de-
termined to eat i'm alive.
And the day after he got to town,
the Cannon people had taken him into
camp. explained to him that he was
making an awful exhibition of himself,
told him he was in bad about this
Uncle Joe business. anyhow, and took
him around.to meet the speaker.
The speaker finished it. Miller be-
came as good a Cannonite as Bede
had been. Out home they waited for
his denunciations of Cannon to appear
on the first pages of the newspapers,
and finally they sent some inquiries.
The information was borne back to a
saddened constituency, that the re-
doubtable Miller had succumbed. He
had been won over. He no longer
frothed at the mouth when Cannon
was mentioned. He, was reported at
home to be smoking the same brand
of cigars the speaker used He voted
with the Cannon forces thru the tariff
session, and learned to say "populst"
with an absolutely correct intonation
of orthodox contempt, whenever he had
occasion to allude to George Norris or
Vic Murdoch or those other wild and
woolly chaps. He got into the best
house society early.
When the Duluth district recovered
from the shock it busted itself writing
letters to Miller. 1t wrote them by the
hundreds Some besought, some cussed,
some advised, some We're fearful and
some We're mad all the way thru BY
the time they had been coming thru
all the later We s of the session
Miller saw the point sufficiently to
vote against the tariff bill.
But that was about all He went
home, to find the insurgents there ut
terly disguised. They wanted to UNI
load him right away. Some of the
ether insurgents, sure they could stick
lot better than that, announced thai
they would take the job rather thar
have Miller keep it any longer and dis.
grace the name of insurgency. TheN
are now making their plans to take it
Miller isn't willing; not by consider
able. There is a fine scrap in the in.
surgent faction. The standpat force:
are pretty well united, and they are