The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

Sneaker Cannon at Emporla To-Day
received a telegram in Wh1ch tne s'ieo SUI
ment was made that ColohSI nooaJ ~
welt will endorse President rats az 40
ministration before he leaves on MS
speaking tour. As he read the mes
sage he turned to a State JourhaI
porter and said with twinkle IN ms
eye: az knew he'd do that all liio
time"
Emporia, Kan, July 1S.-When the
State Journal staff correspondent Went
up to Uncle Joe'' Cannon's room III
the Hotel Whitley this afternoon ne
found the speaker in rocking chair
by the window. Standing by MN anu
holding his hand was William Alien
White the insurgent editor OF the EN-
poria Gazette Mr.. White was IN eN-
cellent spirits and was talking in KIND
lv fashion as he wrung Mr. cannon
hand. AS for .Uncle Joe" he looked
Nm at White with a twinkle IN MS eye
and told him what he thought apout
insurgents in general. ,44,.
Mr.. Cannon is feeling much petlel'
and assured the State Journal corre-
and surely would finish ms hdnsdN
schedule. The speaker is resting quiet
" and is in good spirits, and says that
he has recovered entirely from the
nrostration he suffered SATURDAY
oTTncIe Joe'' has been shaking hdhus
oI da1y with nersons taken to his room
~ C0ngressnnan Miller. Emporld 10
cTowded with people who came mere
10 hear the tall of Mr.. cannon tnis
afternoon. soo,i,o en-
7,.diI saturday," said Mr.. Cannon TO
the state Journal correspondent, vas s
17ecause of the long strain OF the ldsl
session. and the fact that L hau ~
stav and work two weeks alter i .ite
session closed. They lett WORK IoI ~ .no
s,reaIoer which involved the spending
of a billion dollars in Improvements
s,bout washington and other places,
T-ba weather was very hot i'll those Two
weeks and 1 suffered from the neat eX-
ceedingly. ~, - zonsas
e,;gageperts and gone olrect from
washington to Mackinac Islands nut
when Congressman Miller wrote hi1
that he was ill and needed my nelp L
at once came to help him an couiu
Speaks at Normal.
The weather here is cool and a repe-
+ition of the experience of Saturday at
VTinfeld. when the speaker was over
come bv the heat. is not anticipated
Mr.. Cannon's family at DahVllle' now
ever is alarmed lest he oVertaX ms
strength. and naS sent several tTIe Ts
Grams inouiring about his health. HIS
secretary has tried to get him to go
home. but it is practically certain that
unless the efforts of today prove 100
much for him, Mr.. Cannon VIII not
leave the state until after his. speech
az Marion. Tuesday night. He has been
advertised . to speak at Sallna, FRIDAY
but he now has no intention of filling
that date -,
Speaker Cannon addressed the stud
ents of the state normal school at II
o'clock this morning.
.Tr in his address to the
teachers spoke without apparent dis
comfort At the conclusion of his ad-
dress the speaker said he was feeling
we'll and could have talked all day. Mr.
Cannon abandoned his original plan to
discuss the house rules and his re-
marks were general in character. He
avoided politics.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon he will
make an open air speech and prob
ably will reply to Senator Bristow's
charges concerning the increase in the
tariff on rubber. This evening he will
go to Burlingame, where he speaks to-
night. ard after the night meeting he
will go by automobile to Topeka,
where he will spend the night
Mr.. Cannon is scheduled to speak at
Burlingame tonight; at Herington Tues
day afternoon, and Marion Tuesday
right. These are all the speaking en-
gagements he now has in Kansas.
Speaker Cannon was driven in an au-
IOnODlie odt4Iudy HlSnI TO Arkansas
City, where he made an open air politi-
cal speech. AS he expressed it he BE
gan at Arkansas City, where he left off
at winfield
Speaker Cannon had a late breakfast
Sunday morning at the home of ]. 7.
Lafferty. whose guest he has been dur
ing his stay in Winfield. and he spent
the rest of the morning on the front
porch entertaining political friends and
neighbors with stories and political
philosophy. The gathering at the Laf-
ferty home Sunday was almost an in
formal house party in which Speaker
Cannon was the central figure. Con-
gressman Campbell of the Third dis
trict. who was one of the early callers,
congratulated Mir. Cannon on his color
and the snap of his eye and q stranger
no. knowing the story of Saturday
afternoon would not have suspected to-
day that the speaker at that time was
a victim of the extreme heat