Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-20
Speaker Cannon Casts
Aspersions Upon Those
Who Oppose Him.
MURDOCH COMES BACK
Declares Chairman of House
Has Been "Stand StiIIer"
for Many Years.

Kansas City, July 2O.-Speaker Can
non closed his Kansas tour last night
and this morning left for St. Louis
from whence he will go to his home
in Danville, III. He says that he will
spend two weeks campaigning in his
district before the September primar
les and expects to be renominated
Later he will be at the service of the
republican national congressional com
mittee,
He today expressed the opinion the
attempt of the insurgent republicans
to form a new party will fall fiat
Winds Up Tour.
Marion, Kan, uly 20.-Speaker
Joseph G.. Cannon wound up his
speaking tour against the insurgents
in the Kansas primary fight with an
address here last night. In the morn
ing he spoke at Alma and in the
afternoon at Herington.
After his Marion speech Mr.. Can
non left for Kansas City, planning to
go from there direct to Danville.
That his plans might be changed,
however. was indicated by his re-
mark; mo man can say absolutely
what he is going to do
In his speech at Alma Mr.. Cannon
plunged directly into an atteck on
insurgency.
Whenever" said he, you hear a
man talking about how in congress
he is going to kick out of the party
traces; telling ABOUT how he is go
ing to be a reformer and straighten
out things; when you get a fellow
that talks like that, you want to
watch him.
Mnny Insane at Large.
81 believe in organization when !
see people proGlaiming their own
wisdom and that they and God are
a majority, and that they won't work
with anybody else. When l hear that
kind of talk, 1 sometimes think that
the insane asylums are not large
enough.
"Why am I talking this way? Be
cause | am trying to show that we
must cooperate. 1 believe in two
parties-one to watch the other.
There ought to be a well organized
minority to hold the majority in check
check.
Il have high respect for a man who
honestly differs with me on govern
ment policy. l am a republican dyed
in the wool. 1 am a partisan and
Itave been since I voted for Lincoln. -
MurdOck Talks.
Emporia. Kan, July 2O-Congress-
man Victor Murdock, Kansas insur-
iy, Of a
following in the wake of Speaker
Cannon, yesterday defended the in
surgent cause and replied to the
speakers charges made here Monday
He declared that Mr.. Cannon "for
80 years has been opposed to locOmO-
ton in any direction" charged him
with affiliations with Tammany hall
and declared the greatest thing the
insurgents accomplished in the last
session of congress was to put the
speaker off the committee on rules.
81 did not intend to get into this
campaign" he said. 81 have no op-
position in my own district and
thought l would keep out of the con-
test, but when Joseph G. Cannon
came into the state to speak against
the things nearest my heart 1 could
not conscientiously keep out of the
fight.
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
progress. He is not only a stand
patter, but a standstiller. During
his political 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 book.
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
progressive legislation since the civil
war"