The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-19
Cannon Not a Back Number

Burlingame, Kan, July 1S.--Josepl
G. Cannon will not take himself oul
of the race for the speakershlp of aht
next house of Representatives. This IN
made plain near the conclusion of hi.
speech at Emporia, Kan. this after
noon when he said he would abide by
the will of the republican caucus II
the republicans control the next Con-
gress. but that no Undertaking mag
azines" could make him say he would
rot be candidate. In other words
he said, he would not make an eff
fort to win the speakership: yet the
emphasis with which he spoke made
1t plain that If the republiea caucus
should nominate he would he willing
to serve
Speaker Cannon's remarks on the sneak.
er's power We're made before he left the
platform at Emporia to catch a train fo,
Burlingame, where tonight he made his
third political speech in the Kansas pri-
mary campaign. Speaker Cannon's ut
terances on the speakership follow YER
batim:
Il am speaker and on March 4 next
Will have been speaker for eight years
longer continuous term than any man
ever served as speaker since the foun-
dation of the government. There has
been only one man who has had a longer
there was an interim of four years in
his service. That was Henry Clay, who
In the aggregate served ten years as
speaker. Somebody has got to be the
scapegoat through magazines and let
tiers. Candidates for Congress are asked
Will you pledge yourself not to vote for
that old Gar for speaker Oh, the scape-
goat!-this little 1854 pounds of clay can
not bear many sins off into the wilder
NV ,r,oftft fr liz
me as it has been for So years, I will
go back, If God spares myN life, and be
in the next Congress, in the majority or
in the minority. And had rather be
there in republican minority-real virile
minority-than to be one of an apparent
majority that could not take account of
stock and know from one day to the
other whether II was the majority or the
minority. They wanted me to pledge that
l would not be a candidate for speaker
If the republicans have a majority of the
next House.
'They will meet in caucus and select a
candidate for the speakership I will be
in that caucus and l will vote for the
man the caucus selects. | know of no
crime have committed that should bar
me from entering a republican caucus.
If you ask whether l want to be speaker
of the House of Representatives longer
than eight years. I have been speaker
that long because my friends thought
I could be most useful as a member OF
Congress in that position. But, as long
as God let's me live. the muck raking
periodicals and the so-called independent
or progressive republicans shall not make
me say that ! will not be a candidate
for speaker, any more than they shall
make me say, If l am again elected to
Congress, that will not vote when my
name Is called.
At a meeting here tonight Speaker Can
non showed no sign of WEAKNESS despite
the warm air of the tent In which he
spoke He confined his remarks largely
to the tariff After the meeting here he
went by motor car to Topeka, % miles
distant. where he will remain until to-
morrow morning. He will speak at Alma
tomorrow forenoon, at Herington in the
afternoon and at night he will close his
Kansas tour with a speech at Marion.