The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-07-20
CANNON IS GAUSTIC
IN KANSAS SPEECHES
Asserts His Parisanship and
Reads Insurgents Out
of Party.

HERiNGTON, Kansas, July %
Speaker Cannon is out and out with 2
fuil-fedged attack upon insurgency In
fact he regards an insurgeut as practi-
cally q Democrat
Kansans today are talking about his
candor on the subject and enioTiuE rHs
Speakers plain-spoken language, with
his epigrams and pungent wit IN his
speech here Mr. Cannon said:
I am a RepubIican-just a plain.
simple Republican am not a progres-
sive. not an insurgent Republican
whenever Il is necessary to use an
adjective to describe the Republicans.
then before God I viii leave the Repub-
Iican party and climb q tree OF join the
Democrats
They call ne old standpaSter.' Mr..
Cannon said And I was And I think
that I had as much to do as any other
man IN convincing former President
Roosevelt that the time had not come
to revise the tariff. thereby hating pro
ductiOn-
Adheres To Platform
But the demand for revision grew,
and in 1868 the Republican platform
pledged itself 10 revise the tariff I did
there was only one Of two things 70 do
As a Republican I was IN honor bound
10 abide BY the platform or 20 leave the
party.
I'VE carried the country. We saw the
trend Of events, and we prepared 70 re-
wise the tariff For twelve months the
committee on ways ard means studied
the schedules. The greatest economist
in - Hr-T-- p "a rife --r---
are concerned. Is Serene Payne, and he
IL chairman Of that committee
The Speaker continued:
Ia Toilette, BristOw. Cummins. and
their followers call themselves tusurgeut
Republicans They are trying 20 lead you
Republicans out OF the party OF Lincoln
into the Democratic T-rty- There IS no
insurgent Republican party- There are
only two parties III this country the Re
publican party and the DEMOCRATIC
party. Why dc not L-eSe lnSurge1t TEL
lows do like Foss Of Massachusetts, and
openly Join the Democratic parIy2 That
is the way they are headed, but they
halt on the way
Shows Clover HOof-
At Alma he struck directly into his
subject Of Insurgency
DO you see that foot2 It Is cIoven-
and 1 wear a shoe TO conceal the fact
Il
Sometimes 1 wonder why men Who
kick Out OF their party organization
can't learn something There are lots
OF things that don't get my way about
in the Republican party, but ABIDE DJ
the majority. The nan who E-1ES out
OF his traces ike a baIlzy mule ought 10
get OFT Of the harness
Whenever you hear the man taking
about how Congress IS going 20 kick out
OF the marty traces he Is going 20 be q
reformer and straighten out things, then
YOU want 70 watch him
I have high respect for the man VINO
honestly differs with ne on Govern
mental poIfcv. 7 am a Republican dyed
IN the wool and have been a partisan
since I voted for Lincoln Then he
continued
J ssTr TIE framing OF the tariff bIIl. seven
Z SenatSr-BrisIOW. La Toilette. Clam,
BeveridEe. and COmDa1v-aud twenty
/ three ReDresentatives said IF you won
/ let Us say how this tariff shall be fran
| ed we won't PLAY IN the game New,
/ who were the czSrS2
Shot For BHstOv-
when Bristow made that statement
/ OF his on rubber. he stated a falsehOod-
/ 10. maybe he was ignorant God FORBID
the thought that The insurgents lied
/ every time they uisrepresented-
! s=Brfstow may aEoEize ard calamatfzs.
but the country goes marching on to
u have onIv one fault 10 find with
( Murdoch and BrisTnW- they do not CO.
/ operate with their Republican brethren
/ They kick from morning TIL dewy even
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