Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-03
EMOCRATS
OR PR0GRESS|VES,
MURD0CK'S ADVICE


tion. He opposed currency reform be-
fore some of you were born by standing
against specie payment. He stood out
against civil service reform, meat in
spection. pure food laws, conservation,
irrigation and everything else of real
benefit worth mentioning. Cannon Is
not only a standpatter. he Is a stand
stiller. He is against locomotion in
any direction.
For a quarter of a century he has
pretended to be a true Republican
partisan. His boon companion is
Billy Lorimcr, of Illinois, whose cleo
ton to the United states Senate Is
rotten and reeking with corruption.
Processing party fealty he has been
playing a political bunco game.
Cannon for Interest.
His every heart throb has kept TIM
with the aims and desires of the sedf-
ish interests. This pseudo homespun
patriot is the servant OF the patricians
who have been poisoning the springs
of representative government. He has
darkened the ways of light and liberty.
'This man is insolent, gross, cruel
in the brutal exercise of his personal
power. He will serve his country
largely in the future as a warning
not to have his ugly like again.
"Mr. Standpatter. come with me as
the mighty man passes down the
Capitol steps. At the bottom he jumps
into his government-owned auto, not
propelled by government power, be-
cause the insurgents took away it's
gasoline"
ION his right" he continued, "you
will see Lorimer. Have o read the
dispatches lately from Chicago which
tell how a Judge had to dismiss seven
ty-fve veriremon ,cause they and
their families were approached by
bribers in the interests of Lorimer. On
his left is Lucius Littauer, of Glovers-
vile, the intermediary between Cannon
and-Taft, no.; Tammany Hail."
Here Mr.. Murdoch depressed from
Cannon for a time to tell how when
he first went to Congress he discov-
cred that the government was losing
az. 900. 900 a year by its method of
weighing the mails. The government
was still dividing by six, as Murdoch
put 1t, instead Of seven. The methods
of 1873, when trains ran six days a
week, were maintained in the present
era. when trains run seven days a
week. !
To hear Murdoch telling that story of
the fake divisor is worth sitting UP
all night or longer.
He didn't know anything when he
went to Congress, Murdoch says. The
first two months he went around look
ing at the big buildings like a tourist.
Gradually he became wise to the ways
of the system and when he made that
sneech in the House showing how the
government was losing money on the
mails he became q legislative leper for
q time. He was ostracized. He won
bis apht finally to the extent of getting
,ha chairman of his committee to re-
mort a reform of the mail weighing
method and the bill was reported by a
tie vote.
An Original Insurgent.
put the chairman went back on him.
The mower higher up had got in it's fine
work and on the floor of the House
on an appeal from the decision of the
chair he could muster only II u of 391
Srotes Charles N. Fowler was one of
the seventeen.
Tben Murdoch told the story of Con-
arassman Lilley of Connecticut. who
noda charges of corruption at WASH
;neton Cannon packed a committee 10
in1estigate the charges. Lilley was
nrsnded with infamy in its report. He
u.an+ home to Connecticut, where his
own people elected him Governor. But
GI,lev had been bounded to death ty
tha Cannon system; he had been a
narvous wreck. He died. In his last
dei,rium it is a known fact, Murdoch
lid that for days he was calling.
"Take him away. tax him away ana
.ha.y vision that lowered before his eyes
nos the vision of Cannonism.
81 thank Cod exclaimed Murdock'
.that / was one of those Repupicans
who did not vote to place the prano
If infamy on Lilley, who once ex-