The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-21
SUPPOSED FINALE OF SPEAKER
SHIP STRUGGLE MAY BE START
OF GREAT FIGHT.
ANCERED BY ADDRESS
"Uncle Joe" Seorns Insurgents in
Speech Before Illinois Republican
Association--Ail Political Factions at
Washington Anticipate Impending
Conflict in House.

Washington. March 20.-The titanic
struggle over the speakership Of the
house Of representatives which reached
its climax late yesterday IN the de-
struction Of the speakers power IN the
committee on rules. yet leaving Mr..
Cannon the speakership itself, may
have marked not 80 much the end Of
the three days battle an the beginning
of b. great political war
The recognition by NIL factions of
this possibility was the principal
feature today In the political situation
IN Washington.
Hardly anybody here thinks the con-
dition Of affairs after the momentous
battle represents satisfactory con-
clusOn. The speaker and his friends
appear to interpret the refusal of the
house to depose him as justifying them
In claiming to have wrested victory
from defeat. endorsement from repudi-
alton Not "A few of the insurgents
who voted for Mr. Cannon's retention
are wondering today IL they made u
political blunder; whether their anti
Cannon constituents Will not indeed
hold the retention of Cannon in the
speakership to have nulllfied the vote
To eliminate him from the rules com
mittee. The republican regulars com
placently claim the insurgents who
voted for the speaker have returned TO
tile party fold The democrats taunt
these insurgents with having been
recreant to the logic of their In
surgency. Nobody seems entirely
happy about the outcome. Even In
the senate the regulars are appre-
hensive lest the insurgent conflagra-
tion may spread 10 that house. The
insurgent senators are wondering
whether they have made the mast of
their opportunities.
Speaker cannon's defiant speech last
night before the Illinois Republican
association, I'm which he contemporary
denounced the insurgent members of
the house who stood by him in the
final test, AZ "cowardly members of
congress without the courage of their
convictions" has cut to the quick
those men who responded with the
votes to what they say they believed
to be their duty to the party and to
the country and saved him from utter
humiliation.
Today the feeling among these in
surgents was one of bitter resentment
over the attitude assumed toward
them. ''If this Is the manner of our
treatment for saving the republican
party" said one Of them today. who
refused to allow his name to be used.
this battle just ended will be followed
by another beside which the first one
would be but skrmish
II can speak for no one but myself,
but If this Is to be our reception, | am
done. We are not towards. We, of
the insurgents who east our votes yes
terday against unseating Cannon We're
the bravest men In that house. II took
consummate courage and 1t will prob
ably cost me my seat In congress. But
II we are to be met with caumny be-
cause we sacrificed ourselves To save
the house of representatives from
chaos and disorder and to prevent the
ruin of the republican party, then am
In favor of carrying this war TO the
finish"
Thl member said he had talked
with one or two insnrgent leaders who
voted to save Cannon. and they were
II IA similar frame of mind.
when | read In the papers this
morning the speech which Speaker
Cannon delivered before the Illinois
association last night. my blood boiled
with Indignation" said this insnrgent
His Speech.
The portion of the speakers speech
that has thus enraged the insurgents
who saved him the speakership fol-
lows:
"Ihere was new majority made
today 1t consisted of the democrats
and l5 per cent slough from the re-
publican party. They destroyed the
committee on rules. Then what die
they do? A resolution was presented
declaring the office OF speaker vacant
Then what did they, these men who
have been dtnouncing my personality
these simon pure followers of Cum
MINIS and LaFollette, do then? Onl,
eight OF them had the courage of theil
convictions The result was that
while ! was elected speaker by {
majority Of rs last March, they re-
fused TO turn me out by majorit,
Of 36.
This combination abolished th'
coAnmittee on rules, which has, afte
all simply the power to report to th'
house, although they seem to thinl
that is like the Biblical example 0
Let there be light and there wa
light
"You In Washington know different
ly. But the people In the country ap
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