Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-07-20

Harrington. kas., July 19.-Speaker
Cannons second speech today deliv-
cred mere this afternoon was q tariff
argument and an attack on insurgency.
He said:
Il am Republican. just plain.
simple Republican. l am not progress
siWe,~ not an insurgent Republican.
Whenever it is necessary to use an
adjective to describe the Republicans,
then. before God 1 will leave the Re-
publican party and climb tree or join
the Democrats
Speaker Cannon then took up the
tariff and said he had enough of revis-
ion for long time.
They called me old standpatter,"
Mr.. Cannon said. And l was. and I
think that have had as much to do as
any other man in convincing Former
President Roosevelt that the time had
come to revise the tariff. thereby halt
ing production.
But the demand for revision grew,
and in 1908 the Republican platform
pledged the party to revise the tariff.
did ont want that kind of platform
but there was only one of two things
to do. AS a Republican was in honor
bound to abide by the platform or to
leave the party
Discussing the various schedules OF
the Payne Aldrich bill Speaker Can
non referred to the attitude of "Bris-
tow and Beveridge. and all of those
Democrats" The Publishers Associa :
tion demanded that the print paper
schedule be lowered and Hermann
Ridder, the president Of that associa
| tion told us that if we did not reduce
that schedule right away on the eve
of Presidential election. they would
pitch the Republican party as l phrase
| it, into hell. and they have been try
ing to do it ever since. Even La Fol-
lette that flaming light from Wiscon
sin opposed reduction Of the print
paper dues and said six dollars was
| not high enough to protect the Wis
consin paper mills. Clapp of Mime
sofa also fought the two dollar rate
La Toilette, Bristow, Cummins ant
their followers call themselves Insurgen
Republicans. They are trying to lea6
you Republicans out of the party of Lin
! coin into the Democratic party. There is
no Insurgent Republican party. There are
publican party and the Democratic par.
ty. Why do not these Insurgent fellows
do like Foss of Massachusetts and open.
ly join the Democratic party? That is
the way they are headed, but they halt
on the way"
Empora. kas.. July 19.-"Speaker Can
non is not only a standpatter, but a
stand-stiller." Congressman Victor Muir
dock, Kansas Insurgent in the House of
Representatives. said today. Following
in the wake of Speaker Cannon, he de-
Tended the Insurgent cause in his first
political speech of the campaign and re-
piled to the Speakers charges made here
yesterday. He said Mr.. Cannon for q
years has been opposed to loGpmotion in
any direction" charged him with affilia
tions with Tammany Hall ad associated
the greatest thing the Insurgents accom-
plished in the last session of Congress
was to put the Speaker off the commit
tee on rules
Speaker Cannon was interested in just
two things in the tariff bill, the protec-
tion of petroleum and it's products and
the tariff on womens gloves. When the
Insurgents offered an amendment reduc-
ing the tariff on petroleum. Cannon left
his chair and ragged over the floor of the
House like wild man. He said the
House could not make the reduction
Ihen the Insurgents became revolution
ISIS. We appealed from the decision of
the Chair and we won our fight A biz
hand came down out of the blue sky and
smashed Cannon, the glove schedule the
petroleum schedule and all, and that hand
was William H. Taft's"