Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-07-30
SPEAKER CANNON Ill
COLLAPSED While MAKING AN
ADDRESS In KANSAS.
At Winfield, Kansas, Chautauqua Sat-
urday Afternoon, but Recovered
Physicians Urged Him to Abandon
His Speaking Tour, but Not for Him,
He Goes On.

Winfield, Kan.-Accompanied by Con
gresham Philip Campbell, and declar-
ing he was "not a bit sick,'' Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon of the house of rep
resentatives, who collapsed while deliv-
ering an address before the Winfield
Cbautauqua Saturday afternoon, left
here for Arkansas City. The speaker
had recovered from his collapse and in
sisted upon making the trip.
Speaker Cannon IS physicians urged
him to abandon his Kansas speaking
tour, but the speaker seems determined
TO continue it. Mr.. Cannon feels that
the collapse was due to the excessively
warm weather, temperature los, which
he was not used to.
Speaker Cannon appeared tired when
he arrived here. His all night ride from
Kansas City and the excitement Incl
dent to his debate with Clifford Pinchot
before the Knife and Fork club at Kan
sas City the night before, together with
che hot weather here, seemed to I'M
nerve him. The speaker seemed to
realize he was in Ethe enemy Is coun-
try" While the audience was not
hostile, it certainly was not friendly,
and this made FUncle Joe So task
more difficult.
Almost from the beginning he
abandoned his manuscript and spoke
on the development of constitutional
government. After an hour and three
quarters he took up the Payne tariff
bin. He had spoken but a few words
Mandatory of it when he grew pale.
He reached back and took the ice
from a pitcher and placed it on his
head. His head dropped to his chest.
81 can not talk longer" he almost
gasped. HThere are many more things
j should like TO have said, but 1 can
not. i am overcome with the heat -
Friends rushed forward with a chair
and an electric fan was turned on him,
water and ice were procured and the
platform was cleared Of the curious.
The audience remained intensely quiet.
Finally Uncle Joe" arose with
friend on either side and said:
81 am sorry can not continue, but
q have been through three years of
hard work and worry and this intense
heat has been more than j can stand
! thank you" And he sank back.
Summary Of His Speech.
4" Discomfort Of o population" Speak
er Cannon in his address at the Chau-
tauqua association said, " Is not meas
ured by complaints IN the press. II
- measured ID q more significant man
ner and makes q more indelible impress
sion than that Of q penny paper bought,
peiused, thrown away and forgotten.
p" The pocket nerve rs one Of the
wost sensitive nerves ID our eiViliza-
zion and that nerve d always the first
Affected by any general discomfort 0r
want " confidence. have seen 40
VI weakness in the pocket
pegge' out here ~ Kansas, wAere you
ale feyeling ~ higb prices tor farm
pfoQpcis apd Showing w sympathy for
those NJ tAe east WHO complain about
tAe bigl prices " beer and pork, "
syheai and corn.
~ late seeu uo evidence ~ atfsel
NJ ise pocket nef,e' anysbefe ~ tle
sect rAefe business " mofing NIiD
q l|gl Apeel iaieIy soen.'
eleate Cannon declared ~ oppo
pfNta NJ protection laa mlsleplefeaiei
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