The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-07-19
TELLS KANSAS AUDIENCE He
WOULD SERVE iF ELECTED
TO CHAiE.
UNDERTAKING MAGAZINES
Cannot Make Him Say He Win Not
BE Candidate, He Declares
Somebody Must Be the
Scapcgoat.

.Burlingame, Kas., July 13 49, lon
will not take himself OFT of the race
for the speakershlp In the next house
This ne made plain near tlescoaclus-
ion OF his speech at Emporia this af.
ternoon. He said he would abide by
the will of the Republican caucus il
the Republicans control the next coz
gross, but that no undertaking maga-
zines could make him say ne would
not be a candidate. lie said he would
not make an effort to win the speak.
ershipi yet the emphasis with which
he spoke made it plain that If the Re
publican caucus should nominate
MIN, he would be willing to serve.
The declaration was made just be-
fore he left the platform at Emporia
to catch train for Burlingame,
where tonight he made his third pos
litical speech in the Kansas primary
campaign. Cannon's uttarances ,on
the speakership verbatim were Il
am speaker, and on March next |
will have been speaker for eight
years. longer continuous term than
any man who served as speaker since
the foundation of the government
There has been only one man who
has had longer service as speaker
than have had, and there was an in
term of four years in his service
That was Henry Clay, who in the ag-
gregate served ten years as speaker,
Somebody has got to be the scape-
goat through magazines and letters.
Candidates for congress are asked
Wsll YOU pledge so@rself not to veto
for that old czar for speaker Oh.
the scapegoat. This little f54 pounds
of clay cannot bear many sins off in
TO the wilderness If my constituency
la as Kind to LIE as ii has heen for
thirty-six years, | will go back, it
God spares my life, and be in the
nest ongress, eiraer in the majority
o. N Tie minority, ana | would rather
be thr" in Ttrpgblican minority,
"a f9ai }Iyil ltprJijcan minority, than
70 be oue of an apparent majoritg
that could not take account of the
stock and know from one day to the
other whether it was the majority or
minority. They wanted me to pledge
that would not be a candidate for
speaker If the Republicans have a
majority in the next house.
They will meet in caucus and Sc.
lect candidate for speaker | will be
in that caucus and | will vote for the
man the caucus selects. | know OF
no crime | have committed that
should bar me from entering the Re-
publican caucus. If you ask whether
! want to be speaker of the house
longer than eight years have been
speaker that long because my friends
thought / could be most useful as a
members of congress in that position,
But, as long as God let's me live
Undertaking periodicals and SO called
Independent or progressive Republi
cans shall not make me say that /
will not be a candidate for speaker
any more then they vii make me say.
II | am again elected to congress,
that will not vote when my name
Is caller"
Replies to Bristow.
In his Emporia speech Cannon al
so delivered reply to the recent
speech OF Bristow in which Bristow
had charged Aldrich and others with
bringing about an increase in the
duty of manufactured rubber and
therenpon organized rubber trust.
He said Il don't know whether Al
drich and the others organized the
trust. Being uninformed. neither
deny or affirm, Out If Aldrich, occupy
ing the great position, did organize
a trust. then, under the Sherman an
thrust act, he Is liable not only to
serve punishment by fine, but by i'm
prisonment.
Let me suggest to Bristow and his
NOhollLuCHLS tldL liSlcdu VI tiNNCuN
oring to make political capital by
misstating official figures and max
ing charges against brother senator
he had better. as good citizen, give
the information he processes to have
to an appropriate grand jury and to
the department Of justice, for action" +"
Cannon said that Bristow, In max
Ing his charge, had misquoted the Of
ficial figures. He said that instead
of their being decrease, as Bristow
claimed, in imports of manufactured
rubber under the fsayne tariff law,
there had been an increase Of $780,
332 despite the fact that the duty was
per cent higher. Also had there
been an increase in revenue. Cannon
quoted figures OF the bureau OF sta
tistics for the nine months ending
March 30.