The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-14
THE MTssoTLIAN FRIDAY. MORNING, 1910
CHAMP CLARK ORUBS
MR.. Cannon
'cAENoNISM" IS BITTERLY De.
NoUNcEo IN LOWER HOUSE
BY MissoURiAN.

Dayton. O.. Jan l3-In a speech
here tonight Champ Clark. leader 81
the minority in the house. attacked
Speaker Cannon and what Is known
as ''Cannonism." Mr.. Clark declared
that the tide is everywhere rising
against 'Cannonism' and that the fight
against the house rules would continue
until crowned with complete success.
Mr. Clark said the statement Of Speak
or Cannon that the fight against the
house rules was simply an effort tn
prevent any tariff legislation. was un-
true.
Mr.. Clark referred 10 Speaker Cam
mons Kansas City speech. which. he
said was devoted chiefly To a dis
cuSsion of the fight to amend the house
rules. and to the motives. ambitions.
mental equipment and political status
of some of us who have dared 10
lift his eyes above his shoe strings,
look him spuarely in the face and bat
tie I'm the open for the rehabilitation
Of the house of representatives.. 1t
would be interesting to know how that
speech happened to be written and
read to the audience and il would he
edifying to know who furnished him
with certain alleged facts on which lie
based some of his remarks"
The speaker criticized the action Of
Senator Hale in having the speech
printed as a public document and Mt
public expense, saying:
Avarieious Of Power.
Evidently the intention is to cir
culate it ad libitum as piece of cam
paign literature to help elect another
stand-pat house of representatives
which will, in turn. re-eiect Mr.. Cam
non to the speakership. for a.
Macauiey said of Sir Robert Walpolc
he is 'avaricious of power and clings
to it with the tenacity of IA swapping
turtle and with the desperation of a
drowning man clutching plank in
midoccan.
"Tho speaker processes TO love and
admire courageous man. It's a
strange commentary on his loud
profession in that regard that he bit
terly assails all those VINO have
courage to oppose his system. and
deals damnation round the land on all
who are not willing to bow the knee
and kowtow to him. He strikes a
Louis tho Fourteenth 4 am the state
attitude and savagcly belabors all who
would liberaliZe the rules of the house
Against Hon. Joseph G.. Cannon,
personally I have nothing whatsoever;
he has done me many kindnesses
which l have tried to repay; but / am
honestly of the opinion that what has
come to be known as .Cannonism' is
a great evil in our legislative system
and should be rooted out; and the
tide Is everywhere rising. against
'Cannonism.' Since the adjournment
of congress I have been over most of
Iowa, Nebraska. Missouri Kansas and
Oklahoma, and into Colorado and
South DakoAi and everywhere in that
region Cannonsm' is the resounding
theme of every tongue and against II
that portion of the country is aflame
Too Ridiculous.
one of the speakers favorite
charges is that while denounclng him
as a car. / am ambitious to be a
car myself, which is too ridiculous to
talk about. BY revising the rules |
have lost about half the power / had
as minority leader and shear myself Of
about half the power should | become
speaker: but l believed then and be-
ueHe now. that l was right and work
Ing for the public good"
In conclusion Mr.. Clark said
Certainly the republicans cannot be
described as happy family. The Par
s"hs-tahhoh row. the Ballinger-
Pinchot row. the Crane Knox row. the
Observation-Disclosures row. the constant
ly increasing talk of the return from
Elba. the central bank row, all these
are merely symptoms, but most sug-
gestiHe symptoms of the disease now
afilicting the G. o. p So, while
democrats everywhere celebrate the
glad new year by getting together for
an assault all along the line upon the
common enemy. republicans present 10