New-York tribune., 1910-07-20
SPEAKER CANNON
ASSA|LS INSURGENTS
Chronic Kickers Not Repub-
Iicans; Should Get Out OF
Party, He Says.
A DEFENCE OF THE TARIFF
Tells of Lawmakers Who OBJ
ieeted When Reductions Af-
fected Their Own Sections
Speeches in Kansas.

Alma. Kan. July 19.--Speaker Joseph G.
Cannon arrived here shortly before noon
to-day, and was escorted by an automobile
parade TO the courthouse lawn. where he de-
livered one of the speeches of his last day
in the Kansas primary campaign.
Mr.. Cannon plunged directly into an at
tack on insurgency. Whenever" he said,
you hear a man talking about how, in Con-
gress. he IS going TO kick out of the party
traces; telling about how he is going TO be
reformer and straighten out things; when
you get q fellow that talks like that you
want to watch him
'T believe in organization. When I see
people proclaiming their own wisdom. and
that they and God are majority. and that
they won't work with anybody else: when
hear that kind of talk I sometimes think
that the insane asylums are not large
enough.
why am 1 talking this way? Because
am trying to show that we must CO.
operate. I believe in two parties-one to
watch the other. There ought to be a
well organized minority 10 hold the ma
joTity in check.
Il have high respect for man who
honestly differs with me on governmental
policy. 1 am a Republican, dyed in the
wool. l am partisan, and have been since
l voted for Lincoln
At this point Speaker Cannon discussed
the prosperity of the country since 1897
and then said:
Il sometimes wonder why men that kick
out from their party organizations and are
wiser than anybody else cannot learn some
thing There are lots of things that 1 don't
get my way about in the Republican party,
but abide by the viii OF the majority. The
man that kicks out OF the traces like
bslky mule ought to get out of the team.
In the framing of the tariff bill seven
Sena tors-Bristow, La Toilette, Clapp,
Beveridge and company-and twenty-three
Representatives said: If you won't let us
say how this tariff shall be framed we
won't play in the game Now, who we're
the czars?''
Speaker Cannon's second speech to-day,
delivered at Herfngton this afternoon. was
a tariff argument and an attack on insur-
gency.
II am a Republican-just plain, simple
Republican, he said. Il am not pro-
gressive, not an insurgent Republican.
Whenever it IS necessary to use an
adjective TO describe the Republicans: then,
before God. 1 will leave the Republican
Gratis
Discussing the various schedules of the
Payne -Aldrich bill. Speaker Cannon re-
ferred to the attitude OF "Bristow and
Beveridge and all of these Democrats"
THE Publishers Association demanded
that the print paper schedule be lowered,
and Herman Ridder, the president of that
association, told us that if did not re-
duce that schedule right away, on the eve
of a Presidential election, they would pitch
the Republican party. as I phrase it, into
hell and they have been trying to do 1t
ever since.
The Payne bill. as IL passed the House,
reduced the7iuty on print paper from S6 to
s2 a ton. but when the bill got to the Sen
ste the Senators from the paper manu-
featuring states objected. and II was neces-
sarv 10 compromise. Even La Toilette, that
flaming light from Wisconsin, opposed re-
duction of the print paper duty. and sald
S. was not high enough to protect the Wis
consin paper mills Clapp, of Minnesota,
also fought the g rate.
La Toilette, Bristow. Cummns and their
followers call themselves insurgent' Re
plIblicans They are trying TO lead YOU Re
pUbIicsns out of the party of Lincoln into
the Democratic party. There is no fnsur-
gent Republican party. There are only
two parties in this country-the Republican
PARTY and the Democratic party. Why do
lot these 'insurgent fellows do like Foss,
of Massa chusetts and openly join the Dem
ocratic party? That is the way they are
headed. but they halt on the way,