The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-03-09
.FLAYED NEAR INSURGENTS
KITCHIN STIRRED
UP THE ANIMALS.
North CarOIinian Was Cherred BY
Both Democrats and the Reg
ular Republicans.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-The unus-
ual spectacle of a democratic repre-
sentative faying the 'insurgent" re-
publicans and defending Speaker
Cannon as against them while being
egged and cheered on by both the
democrats and the regular republic
cans was the sensation in the house
at Washington last Friday.
1t was field day for Congressman
Claude Kitchin, the fiagellant of the
Speakers republican enemies, and
Uncle Joe," who occupied a seat on
the floor during the speech, is re-
ported to have "grinned most of the
time" and to have left the chamber
wearing a smile that would not come
off, when the speech ended.
Mr.. Kitchin, who is recognized as
one of the ablest debaters in the
body, held the house as we'll as the
galleries breathless, it is stated in an
effort filled with invective, satire
and humOr."
Mr.. Kitchin charged the 'insurgent"
republicans, whom he styled near
insurgents" with ingratitude, hypoc-
risy and cowardice. He said Speaker
Cannon had lifted them out Of the
ordinary into chairmanships, and
they had requited him by turning
their backs on him.
And yet, challenged Mr.. Kitchen,
H.
name to whom he referred, let one
of them "get up in this house and
point out one single measure that the
Speaker had ever advocated that they
did not advocate Let them mention
one single policy that the Speaker
ever pursued in which they have not
sustained him. Let them name one
measure that the Speaker has ever
opposed that they did not oppose.
These near insurgents can play Victor
Murdoch and Norris and Cooper back
yOnder behind the curtains of their
home districts, but they cannot play
the part before US who know their
records. They can put on the Muir
dock wig and the Norris mustache
and the paint and powder. But they
SdunOI oil W Tic oIdSS USLOI6 us W
save their lives. We know their rec
ords and we know they are acting"
Continuing Mr.. Kitchen said:
II can understand how an ordinary
republican can go and leave Uncle
joe under stress of circumstances
for the good of the G. o. P, but these
gentlemen whom he has taken out of
the ordinary and lifted into chair
manships of committees, how these
men can turn their backs on him l
cannot understand. l have forgotten
which one of Millions works this is
in, but l will bet that the Speaker
can tell me:
'Swindish gluttony ne'er looks to
heaven
Amidst his gorgeous feast,
But with besotted, base ingratitude.
Grams and Grams and then turns and
blasphemes his feeder
after feeding at the hands of the
Speakers generosity they turn on him
in this way, and l have no doubt that
he repeats these words"
Mr.. Kitchin said that the NEAR
insurgents" had blood in their eyes
until they went into caucus, and that
then they stretched out their hands
and demanded to be tied good and
tight, so that they could go back to
their constituents and say: Il had
to stand by the caucus" He scath-
ingly declared that mo republican
has had the nerve or the gratitude to
say one defending word for the
peaker-eXcept the Speaker him
self"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Kitchins
speech Foster of Vermont, with his
jumped to his feet and attempted a
response" says the Washington Her.
aids report of the scene, but he did
not have the sympathy of either the
regular republicans, the real insur-
gents or the democrats, as was ap-
parent from the rather jeering re-
marks that greeted his entry into the
ring. But he would have been all
right if he had not committed him
self to the statement that the repub-
licans of New England were against
Mr.. Cannon.
Representative Rainey of Illinois
answered Mr.. Foster with a suave
query as to what points of difference
existed between Mr.. Cannon and the
republicans of New England. While
the Vermont member was spIuttering
in an effort to frame a suitable re-
ply Mr.. Rainey gently suggested that
he file "a bill of particulars Then
the chairman's hammer fell, with the
simultaneous suggestion that the
|gentleman's time has expired. -"
Mr., Rainey asked that Mr. Foster
be given time to say all he wanted
to say, which was granted, but the
privilege was declined by Foster, who
Just sat in his seat and tried to look
pleasant and unconcerned.
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