The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-10-06

U Republicans and faithful
u. Democrats voted as body
to overthrow Cannonism, with Can
mons despotic rules, then the fate
of future Democracy was in the hands
OF those Representatives that we
placed in Congress to protect our in
terest and welfare on the floor of
the House. Enough Democratic Bolt
ers went over to the Republicans and
saved the fate of Cannonism and res
cued his almost lost autocratic rules.
These deserters of Democracy went
to Congress under the disguise of
Democrats, and inexcusably proved
themselves to be REPUBLICANS of
the RANKEST KIND. They betray-
ed their constituency, and, no doubt,
received handsome crumbs from the
hlthy pockets of corrupt demagogues
that the trusts had sent to Congress
to protect their welfare, which Repre-
sentatives are the proctorage of the
trusts, seeking at all times to make
the burdens of the common people
SO heavy that they would be power
less to proclaim what was right.
Old Joe Cannon and Republican,
ism never faced a more distressful
period of their lives 1t was war
war of the most vigilant kind in an
effort to deprive the Speaker Of the
House of that powerful influence and
command that he had to pack COM
mittees and make the Speaker the
Plutocrat of the nation Honest and
sincere Democrats favored the
change; Republicans that were not
controlled by corrupt influence were
giving the movement their most
hearty support, and to think that
Georgia had six Representatives who
were contemplate enough to desert
their party and rescue the enc
mics of the masses is enough to
make Stephens, Hill and Toombs rise
up and turn over in their graves and
shed bitter tears. That's what their
votes did, and is the only solitary
thing that they can be construed to
mean.
The Georgia Deserters, under the
lead of Old Lon Livingston and W.
G. Brantley, carried enough of their
colleagues with them that they had
majority of the Georgia delegation,
and when Old Lon whispered to
Speaker Cannon that he had him
some more Georgia votes don't you
know how refreshing it was to the
old warrior in the most critical pc
riod of his insolent career.
Ignorance can be no excuse. Lon
Livingston had been in Congress
term after term. Brantley had been
side by side. Howard in the same
place, and each and every one of
the Corrupt Six knew the principles
of Democracy, and if they didn't un-
derstand the principles of Democracy
they certainly had no business in
Congress. They attempt in vain to
palliate this base desertion and be-
trayal, but they cannot satisfy the
minds of the right-thinking that they
didn't betray us in a knowingly and
fraudulently manner for reasons un-
disclosed, but satisfactory to them
selves.
Old Lon Livingston has been an
inmate of Congress for all these
years-would to God that he had
been in the penitentiary- he is
accurately acquainted with every
movement of the Republican party,
and he knew that it was best for the
country that the Speaker of the
House be deprived of that autocratic
power which enabled him to dictate
the course and fate of every bill that
was referred to those committees
and with his special appointees he
could by;bo opI OF 70 oUprv DoOU0-