Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-26
SCORED BY K|TCH|N
"Near- insurgents" of House
Charged With DupIicity.
DENOUNCED AS. EDWARDS
Those Who Talk Against Cannon,
But Vote With Him.
PLOTTERs URGED TO ACT
Mock Grief Expressed at the Con-
spiracy for the Overthrow Of
the Speaker.
DENOUNCED AS EDWARDS
PLoTTERs URGED T

on the floor OF the House yesterday after
noon. It was a Claude kitchin field day
and everybody, with the exception OF the
near-insurgents, had the best kind OF q
time
Representative kitchin, much to the
of the House. described q
.near-insurgent'' as lone OF those gen
tlemen who always talk against Cam
nonism and the rules and always vote
for Cannonism and the rules"
.'Brutus, when he assassinated Caesar"
he said at one point in his address,
promised the Roman people better
than a Caesar. These former friends of
the Speaker, in the assassination OF that
gentleman, do not make a promise OF
anything but some one weaker than the
Speaker. My friends, have some pride
in the intellectually Of this body and IN
the courage of it, and IL this House must
have a republican in the Speakers chair
prefer to see Mr.. Cannon there. my
self. as a member and democrat, would
rather see a giant there than q weakltng.
would rather see lion there than q
fox
Mr.. Kitchin asserted that those who are
declaiming against Speaker Cannon do not
differ from him in their republicanism In
any essential particular, but are merely
taking advantage of the issue OF Can
nonism'' to turn a little of the popular
clamor to their own good with their con-
stituents He denounced them as cow
ards and was apparently trying TO get
rise out of one or more of them.
He succeeded, however. only in the case
Of Representative Foster or Vermont,
who, after Mr.. Kftchn had finished, OBJ
tanned some time for q reply. His asser-
ton that the republicans of New England
were against the Speaker was seized upon
by Representative Rainey or Illinois, VINO
demanded a bill Of particulars MT.
Foster declared he would give it, but the
chairman's gavel fell with the admonition
that "the gentleman's time has expired.
Amid laughter Of the democrats and the
regular republicans Mr.. Rainey tried
prod Mr.. Foster to asking Tor more uHe'
but the latter ignored the suggestion.
Mock Grief Expressed.
Discussing the plot again Mr.. Cannon
and the base ingratitude Of the near-in-
surgents," some of whom the Speaker, he
declared, had raised to high places In the
House, MIR. kitchin said:
"For eight years l have seen strong
figure, an intellectual republican giant
riding the very whirlwinds and directing
the very storms of his party In TINS
House. / have seen a gentleman who Is
called a car, a king. WELD more power
than even the President He has con-
trolled legislation. He has controlled his
party. He has been the very god OF idol
airy for the standpatters. He has great
service and great record behind him.
He has stood here for nearly forty years
as bulwark of strength for his party:
He has stood loyalty by the principles OF
his party. And now my heart almost
melts with grief to see that gentleman
now in the HAMS of conspirators. / can
see his head dangling at their waist. |
can see the execution of the distinguished
gentleman. / hope / am not giving away
the plot when l notify him of the con-
spiracy that is being brought about for
his undoing."
The "Near Insurgents"
Here is the "honor roll" as Mr.. Kitchin
called it, of other near insurgents" !:
Foster of Vermont, Townsend of Michi-
gan, Amee, Barclay, Barnard, Bennett,
Cassidy, Cox, Cole, Crumpacker, David
son, Dickens, Hanna, Henry, Gillette,
Hubbard, johnson of Ohio, Lafean, Loud,
Mckinley, Mclaughlin, Moon, Moore,
Nye. Prince and Scott
There men," cried Mr.. Kitchin, fought
to go ahead and take the Speakers head
off at once, and spare him this long, hard,
tortured, lingering death. Why, even the
cruel Macbeth In bordering the murder of
Duncan said, If 'twere done when tbs
done, then 'twere we'll 'twere done quick
~. l commend to you conspirators. YOU
near insurgents, the humanity of muir
derous Macbeth.
Duplicity Charged.
These good republican friends in Ohio
and Vermont and Michigan and elsewhere
can play Victor Murdoch and Cooper and
Morris back yonder beyond the curtains,
back in the country among their own
people, but they cannot play the part be-
fore us who know their records. You
cannot put on the Murdoch and the
Cooper and the Lindbergh, with the wigs
and powder behind the curtains and come
sec you making up for it. You cannot
strut the stage with such indignant re-
form here before us, with straight faces,
to save your lives. We know your rec
ords; we know you are acting. You can
fool the folks down yonder. but / will
tell you one thing. in justice to the
Speaker, i'm justice to your constituents,
you ought to be able to get up here be-
fore these men who know your votes and
know your records since you have been
representatives and specify wherein the
Speaker has erred and wherein you failed
to follow the Speaker and indorse him.
when / look over the columns Of the
papers and nearly every day see these
ways, and see how they are deserving one
by one and coming out in these home
papers, the very men that he stood by,
there comes to my mind these words OF
the poet:
Baseness of Ingratitude.
1.-The wretch whom gratitude once fails
to bind to truth. to honor, to virtue. let
him lay no claim, but stand confessed be-
fore the world the brute disguised in q
man.
Il reckon that the Speaker has some
times repeated that. But that is not the
worst. How these gentlemen, whom he
has taken out Of the ordinary and lifted
into chairmanships of committees, can
turn their backs on the Speaker l cannot
understand. / have forgotten which one
of Milton's works this is in, but will bet
that the Speaker can tell me:
Swinish gluttony ne'er looks to heaven
Amidst his gorgeous feast
But with bcsotted base ingratitudc
Grams and Grams. and then turns and BIAS
phemes his feeder.
After feeding at the hands Of the
Speakers generosity they turn in this
way, and l have no doubt that he repeats
these words"
The main portion of Mr.. Kitchin's
speech was general assault on the
Payne tariff bill.
He declared the bill was well named
the 'All-rich-pain bill-a blessing to all
the rich and pain to the hungry people
of the country
Wants Wife Adjudged Dead.
Declaring that he has not heard from
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