The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20
He Declares That InSurgeni
Republicans Should Get
Out Of the Party
CANNON ALLUDES TO HIS
OPPONENTS AS CzARS
The Speaker Says That the Men Who
Lead Insurgency Ought TO Join
Democratic Party But They
Halt the Way

Alma. Kan. July 1s.-Speaker Joseph
G. Cannon arrived in this county seat
shortly before noon today and was es-
corted by an automobile parade to the
courthouse lawn, where he delivered
one of the speeches of his last day in
the Kansas primary campaign.
Mr.. Cannon plunged directly into an
attack on insurgency.
Whenever" he said, you hear
man talking about how in Congress
he is going to kick out of the party
traces, telling about how he is going
to be a reformer and straighten out
things, when you get fellow that
talks like that you want to watch
him.
Il believe in organization. When !
see people proclaiming their own
wisdom and that they and God are a
minority and that they won't work
with anybody else when l hear that
kind of talk l sometimes think that
the insane asylums are not large
enough.
why am I talking this way? Be-
cause 1 am trying to show that we
must cooperate. i believe In two par
ties-one to watch the other. There
ought to be a well organized minority
to hold the majority in check.
II have high respect for man who
honestly differs with me on govern
mental policy. 1 am republican dyed
in the wool. I am partisan and L
have been since 1 voted for Lin
coin"
At this point Speaker Cannon dis
cussed the prosperity of the country
since 1897 and then said: II sometimes
wonder why men that kick out from
their party organization and are wiser
than anybody else, cannot learn some-
thing. There are lots of things that l
don't get my way about in the repub-
lican party, but / abide by the Will
of the majority. The man that kicks
out of the traces like balky mule
ought to get out of the team.
"In the framing of the tariff bill
seven senator's, Bristow. LaFollette.
Clapp, Beveridge & Co., and % repre-
sentatives said: If you won't let us
say how this tariff shall be framed we
won't play in the game Now, who
were the czars?"
Specch at
Harrington, Kan. July 1s.-Speaker
Cannons speech delivered here TINS
afternoon was tariff argument ana
an attack on insurgency. He said:
.I am a republican, just plain, simple
Republican i am not progressive, nor an
insurgent republican. Whenever II is nee
essary to use an adjective to describe the
republicans then before God. will leave
the republican party and climb tree or
Join the democrats
Speaker Cannon then took up the tarin
and said that he had enough revision TOT
a long time to come.
"They call me old standpatter." said
Mr.. Cannon, "and l was. And l think |
had as much to do any other man In
convincing former Presidet Roosevelt
that the time had not come to revise tha
tariff, thereby halting productiveness.
But the time for revision grew. and
in 1908 the republican platform pledged
itself to revision of the tariff said the
speaker IT did not 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
leave the party. We carried the country.
we saw the trend of events and we pre-
pared to revise the tariff. For twelve
months the committee on ways and
means studied the schedules The great
est economist In the country, as far as
tariff matters are concerned. is Serene e.
Payne, and he Is chairman of the COM
mittee."
Discussing the various schedules Of the
Payne- -Aldrich bill. Speaker Cannon re-
ferred to the ATTITUDE of Senator Bris-
tow and Senator Beveridge as democrats.
"The newspapers association demanded
that print paper schedules be lowered,
and told us II we did not reduce the
schedule right away on the eve OF
presidential election" said Mr.. Cannon.
they would pitchfork the republican
party into hell, and they have been trying
to do It ever since.
'rhe Payne bill as passed by the House
reduced the duty on print paper from IS
to g a ton." said the speaker. but when
the bill got to the Senate the Senators
from the paper manufacturing states OBJ
tected. and It was necessary to compro-
mise.
Even that flaming light from Wiscon-
sin known as Mr.. La Follette.' said Mr..
Cannon, opposed a reduction and said
that $6 was not high enough to protect
the Wisconsin paper manufacturers. Mr..
Clapp of Minnesota also foughs the 81
rate.
La toilette, Bristow. Cumming and
their followers call themselves insurgent
republicans" said Mr.. Cannon They
are trying to lead you republicans out
of the party of Lincoln into the demo-
cratic party. There is no insurgent re-
publican party. There are only two par
ties in this country. One is the repub-
lican and the other is the democratic
party. Why don't these insurgents do
like Foss of Massachusetts, and openly
join the democratic party? That is the
way they are headed. but they halt on
the way
Wage Agreement Reached
Pittsburg, July 19.-Representatives