Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-26
CANNON IN WAY
OF FREEDOM
kANsAN SAYS SPEAKER HAS
BEEN sTAND-sTlLLER FOR
80 YEARS.
MURDOCH RAPs At UNCLE JOE
Ayers That Uncle Joe Played In the
Dark With Tammany.-Pralses
insurgents for Putting Him OF
Rules Committee,

| Emporfa, Kan. July 20-Congress
man Victor Murdoch, Kansas insur
gent in the house of representatives
followed in the wake of Speaker Can
non and defended the insurgent cause
in his first political speech of the cam
paign.
He said that Mr.. Cannon "for 80
years has been opposed to locomotion
in any direction" charged him with
affiliations with Tammany, and de-
clared the greatest thing the insur.
gents accomplished in the last ses.
sion of congress was to put the speak:
er on the committee on rules.
Speaker Cannon, for 80 years, has
been opposed to locomotion in any
direction. For over a quarter of a
century he has stood out against prog.
ress. He is not only a standpatter
but stand-stiller. During his politi.
cal life he has opposed about all the
progressive legislation that has been
offered and the wonder is that SO
much of it has managed to creep into
the statute books.
He opposed the federal inspection
of meats. he stood opposed to irriga.
ton. to currency reform, to pure food
laws and regulations, to civil service
reform and to practically all progress.
i've legislation since the Civil war.
Now listen to me, want to tell
you something that Cannon did not
mention in his speech. While posing
as a partisan; as an ardent advocate
Of party fealty. he has played in the
dark with Tammany. He did not hest.
tate to rejoice when his boon compan-
ion. Lorimer, of Illinois, was elected to
the United States senate by a coali-
ton with the Democrats and by a deal
that was rotten to the core, that has
made stencil in the nostrils of the
nation.
Poisoned the Springs.
Cannon has thoroughly poisoned
the springs of representative govern
ment for 30 years. He has helped to
block the way to light and freedom.
Speaker Cannon was Interested in
Just two things in the tariff bill
the protection of petroleum and its
products, and the tariff on ladies'
gloves. When the insurgents offered
an amendment reducing the tariff on
petroleum, Cannon left his chair and
ragged over the floor of the house like
wild man. He said the house could
not make the reduction. Then the in.
surgents became revolutionists. We
appealed from the decision of the
chair and we won our fight. A biz
hand came down out Of the blue sky
and smashed Cannon, the glove SEIZED.
ule, the petroleum schedule and all,
and that hand was William H. Taft's
"The greatest thing the insurgents
have done," continued the speaker,
"has been to put Cannon off the com.
mittee on rules. 1t is no longer neces.
sary for members of the committee to
get down on their marrow bones be.
fore the chairman for fear of an ad.
verse report to the speaker. The in.
surgents not only wish to take the
power away from Speaker Cannon, but
from all future speakers. The bull.
wark Of the speakers power is his au.
thority to appoint the committees.
They want to take that away from
him. It will then be impossible for
him either to reward or punish mem.
bers."