The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-10

that was made to deprive the speaker
of the house of representatives of
the power conveyed and vested in him
by the house rules. These sO-called
rules are specially manufactured by
the speaker and are made especially
to protect and shield the speaker and
his system, protecting the speaker in
his autocratic gown They enable
him to pack COMMITTEES with his spe-
cial appOintees and in this manner
stagnate and control and defeat every
movement for wise and prudent leg
islation for the betterment of the
masses. With the speaker of the
house absolutely stigmatized with
corrupt influences that place him in
power, he naturally becomes the
safeguard for the special interests,
and he is the watchdog for the enc
mics of the people who are the
trusts" We can more fittingly por-
tray the present speaker and his
audacious venefice as the 'one-man
control bribing unprincipled con-
gressmen or embryo statesmen with
veneniflous poisoning of the vilest
and most corrupt kind of all political
trickery, and the idea of placing
with the speaker the unlimited au-
thority in the house when the Con-
stitution does not allow him any
whatever is palpably absurd as well
as dangerous to the best interests of
the people Of the nation, and under
his authority the masses of the
American people would be dragged
into the very depths of the most cruel
and calamitous stages of deprivation
caused from usurped authority, mis-
representation and inequality
The more we study that unmanly
betrayal of six of our own congress-
men we become suspicious, which
suspicion is accurately based upon a
foundation of indisputab1e facts, and
if the corrupt six have or claim any
sincerity to the people they represent
their disgraceful desertion should
make them the stenches in the nos
trlls of every man that supported
them
The fight that was between the
nation and the speaker was an en-
couraging one, which promised the
deprivation Of those plutocratic rules
which we find the speaker enthroned.
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messed the battle was inshearty SYM
pathy with the movement; Democrats
that adhered to the promise and
pledge of the National Democratic
Convention were giving the move
ment their cooperation and with the
noble and cOmmendable effort of the.
Insurgent Republicans, and if it had
not been for that corrupt influence
that controlled the Democratic bolt
ers the speaker of the house would
have lost his unwarranted authority,
and we are compelled to acknowledge
that six representatives of the people
of Georgia went over to the system
atized machine and saved the day of
CannOn'S autOcratic domination.
Speaker Cannon has virtually ad-
mitted this himself, and that 1imsy
and nauseating excuse that the De-
serters tender is disgusting to any
one that understands the real situa-
ton. With the ballot as the pro-
tectOr of the citizens of the common
wealth it should be swayed with such
unflinching terms that it would for
ever sweep these near-Republicans
off the face of political existence. The
Democrats of the Eleventh Congress
sional district of Georgia will resent
the betrayal of Representative Will
liam G. Brantley and place him back
where they adopted him. and repay
him for his dishonored coloring of
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