The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-07-20
MURDOCH JOINS eRlsToW IN HIS
STUMP FIGHT AGAINST
SPEAKER CANNON.
SPEAKERS ARE BITTER
Crizzled Old Stand Pa,ter Denounces
insurgent Movement rs Democracy
and Murdoek Delivers sea,hips Ad.
dress Against Cannonisnn and Can
nou-Bristow Speaks in Topeka.

Emporia. Kan. July Is.-ccngress-
man Victor Murdoch, Kansas insurgent
in the house Of representatives, follow
ing IN the wake of Cannon. today de-
tended the ,nsurgent cause In his first
political speech of the campaign here
and replied 10 the speakers charges
made here yesterday. He declared that
Mr. Cannon for 80 years has been OPP
posed to locomotion in any direction"
charged him with affiliation with Tam
many Hall and declared the greatest
thing the insurgents accomplished IN
the last session of congress was To put
the speaker off the committeee ON
rules.
Il did not intend To- get into this
campaign" he said. II have no OPP
position In my own district and
! thought would keep out Of the con-
test, but when Joseph q. Cannon came
into the state To speak against the
] things nearest my heart | could not
conscientiously keep out of the fight
Speaker Cannon for 80 years has
/ been opposed to loeomotion In any di-
rection. For over a quarter of cen
tury he has stood against progress. lie
Is not only n stand patter. but stand
stiiler. During his political life he
has opposed about all the progressive
legislation that has ever been offered
and the wonder IL that 50 much of u
has managed to creep into the statute
! books.
/ Opposed Progress.
"He opposed the federal inspection
OF meats: he stood opposed To irrlga-
tlon. To currency reform. To pure food
laws and regulations to civil service
reform and to practically all. progress
legislation since the Civil war. Now
listen to me. | want to tell you some
thing that Cannon did not mention In
his speech yesterday. While posing
as a partiean: as an ardent advocate
Of party fealty. he has played In the
! dark with Tammany. He did not hes
itate to rejoice when his boon com
pan1on, Lorlmor of Illinois. was elect
ed To the United States senate by IA
coalition with the democrats and by IA
deal that was rotten To the core; that
has made a stencil In the nostrls of
the nation.
. Cannon has thoroughly poisoned tho
springs of representative government
, for 80 years. lie has helped To block
, the way to light and freedom. Speaker
Cannon was Interested In just two
things In the tariff bill-the protection
OF petroleum and It's products. and the
tariff on ladies' gloves When the in
: surgents offered an amendment re-
ducing the tariff on petroleum. can
non left the chair and ragged over the
floor like Wild man. He said the
e house could not make the reduction.
e Then Is when the insurgents becama
) revolutionists. We appealed from the
4 decision of the chair and We won our
4 fight. A big hand came down out OF
I the blue sky and smashed Cannon. the
h glove schedule. the petroleum schedule
y and all. and that hand was William II
. Taft's.
9 The Beet Yet.
"The greatest thing the insurgents
have done" continued the speaker
has been to put Cannon off the com
mlttee on rules. II Is no longer nee
essary for members of the COMMITTEES
to get down on their marrow bones
" before the chairman for fear of an ad'
F" verse report To the speaker The In
y surgents not only wish to take tn,
power away from Speaker Cannon. bnl
" from all future speakers. The bul'
q wark of the speakers power is his au'
u thority to appoint committees. W.
- want to take that away from him. u
e will then be impossible for him Il
J. either reward or punish members"
r. Continuing. Mr.. Murdoch sad;
"pretendlng To stand before th'
N country as a simple man, favoring low
,e expenditures. he in reality has pro
"A NOTED loot and plunder without stin
~ IL IL would reward his henchmen ol
a serve factiOnal end. pretending To
Ia democratic sympathy and making
=, display OF hOmely language and mean
=, est manner, he has been tile bulwarl
- of every plot and cabal OF the arlslo
: craey to swindle and cheat aud oppres
the people,
L Don't be deceived by that imitation
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