The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-08-16
WILL be CANDIDATE
FOR SPEAKERSRIP

CHICAGO, Aug. 15-The Inter
Ocean tomorrow will print an inter
View with Joseph g. Cannon, speaker
OF tho house. in which he denounces
Insurgents. says he viii be candi-
date for the speakership of the next
house and declares that reports OF
a contemplated reorganization OF the
Republican party originated With the
insurgents and Democrats.
Referring TO the dispatches from
Beverly. Cannon said:
Il don't believe Mr.. TAFT contem-
plates. any such action. The preSl'
dent Is not that kind of n man to
Yield every passing whlm OF a min
orsty. The story that Senators Aid
rlch and Hale and myself were to be
thrown out OF the party will be found,
when traced TO its source, TO have
originated with some of the insur-
gent Democrat allies. whose wishes
are father to the thought.
II expect to be reelected to con-
gress by an overwhelming majority.
aid | VIII be a candidate for speaker
but always subject 10 the will OF the
people II am beaten in the eau
u Il
willingly take my place In the ranks"
Answering the question. "Wlll you
be a candidate for reelection as
made this statement.
Il have been asked that question
frequently and especially by our
Democratic friends and their practi.
cal allles-the followers OF LaFol.
lette and Cummins. | have answered
It, but 80 far the answer has never
beon published by our friends, the
onemy
Il am speaker of the house, elected
oy Republican majority four times.
| have been in harmony with, and
have to the best of my ability, CO.
operated with the Republican majori-
t. In the legislation that has been
enacted for the last seven years. dur
Ing the administration of Theodore
Roosevelt and VIM. H. Taft
II know OF no reason, personal or
political, that would prevent my being
speaker again II a majority of the
house OF representatives should dc
SIRE. Under these conditions, pend
ing campaign, l could not upon de-
Gland OF the enemy. pledge that IN
the event OF my reelection to con-
Ere5s I would not he a candidate for
speaker, without acknowledging that
the record OF the house during the
last seven years Is subject to criti-
cism and that the Republican major.
!ty with which / have co-operated In
the enactment OF legislation Is sub.
ject to Just criticism.
This | Will not do. because | be-
Ileve the record of the party for the
last seven years should be lndorsed
and not condemned
No Republican representative In
the next congress will be elected
speaker unless there Is majority
Of real Republicans In the house that
VIII unite IN a caucus touching the
organization Of the house and abide
by the action of the caucus In the
selection of the speaker and other
officers"
Mr. Cannon then devoted his at.
tention to the Insurgents:
THE senators and representatives
who call themselves insurgents and
who voted against the enactmen of
the Payne bill voted to increase or
maintain the duties on industries and
productions of their own states and
sections" he declared.
They were protectionists for their
own people. but were opposed to pro-
lection for other people in other sec
tons
Senator LaFoIlette did not vote
to increase the duties on lead and
zinc, but he defended the finance
committee schedules on those pro-
ducts in speeches, saying they were
not high enough. explaining. however,
that he could not vote on the ques.
ton In which he snid he had per-
sonal peouniary interest in the out.
come"