Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
murdoCk Of Kansas.
That Brilliant Congressman
on Cannon's Trail and
Shows Up the Rot
teness of the
System.

Emporia, Kan, July 19,-Congress-
man Victor Murdoch, insurgent, fol.
lowing in the wake OF Cannon, today
defended the insurgent cause and re-
piled to Cannon, saying:
cannon, for thirty years, has been
opposed to locomotion in any direc-
tion. For over quarter Of a century
he has stood out against progress.
He is not only a stand patter, but a
stand stiller. During his political
life he has opposed about all the pro-
gressive legislation that has been
offered and the wonder is that SO
much Of it has managed to creep into
the statue books. He opposed the
federal inspection of meats, stood
opposed to irrigation, the currency
reform, the pure food laws, the civil
service reform and practically all the
progressive legislation since the civil
war.
| PLAYS WITH TAMMANY.
Cannon, while posing as a parti-
| odus Oil thioCiU oNSOSoCO VI POI W
featy, played in the dark with Tam
many. He did not hesitate to re ejoice
when his boon companion, Lorimer Of
Illinois, was elected to the United
States senate by the coalition with
democrats and by deal that was
rotten to the core, that has made a
stencil in the nostrils of the nation.
Cannon has thoroughly poisoned
the springs of representative govern
ment for thirty years. He has helped
block the way to light and freedom.
PROTECTS HIS FRIENDS.
Cannon was interested in just two
things in the tariff bill-the protec-
tion of petroleum and it's products
and tariff on ladies gloves. When
the insurgents offered an amendment
reducing the tariff on petroleum, Can
non left the chair and ragged over the
floor of the house like a wild man.
He said that the house could not
make the, reduction. Then the in
surgents became revolutionists. We
appealed from the decision of the
chair and we won the fight. The big
hand came down out OF the blue sky
and smashed Cannon, the glove
schedule, the petroleum schedule and
all and that hand was William H.
Taft's.
| 1.-The greatest thing the insurgents
have done, has been to put Cannon off
| fno
longer necessary for the members of
the committee to get down on their
marrow bones before the chairman
for fear of an adverse report to the
speaker. The insurgents not only
wish TO take the power away from
Cannon, but from all the future
speakers. The bulwark of the speak
er's power is his authority to appoint
committees. They want to take that
away from him. 1t will then be i'm
possible for him, either to reward or
punish members.
| IS AN EGOTIsT.
pretending to stand before the
country as a simple man, favoring
low expenditures, he has in reality
promoted loot and plunder without
stint il it would reward his henchmen
or serve factional end: pretending
to the democratic sympathy and max
ing a display of homely language and
meanest manner, he has been the bull
wark of every plot and the cabal Of
the aristocracy to swindle, cheat and
Cypress the people. Don't be deceiv-
ed by that pose of great commoner.
He has been living, breathing denial
of the right of this people to a repre-
sentative government ever since his
ascension to power.
VIVID PICTURE
"Look at your speaker, my friends.
Stand with me and with your own
gaping congressman in line as your
speaker comes from his private room.
See the stenographers ane clerks
and minions back out of the room
before him. See the crowd, big eyes
and awe watch the departure of this
man from his privacy. Who has he
with him?
"Look, there goes Joseph G. Sibley,
who wrote to Mr.. Archibald of the
Standard Oil company: I have sen.
ator who wants thousand; shall ]
invest? He is boon companion, an
intimate Of your ruler; also touching
shoulders with him as he comes out
Is Billy Lorimer, a boon companion
Of this staunch defender OF party reg.
ularity.
"Yes, there he goes, and beside
him, elbowing with the speaker is
Lucius Littauer, the greatest manu-
facturer of gloves in the United
States. Taint and more the mouth
piece and representative ol
Tammany.
NIGHT OF ANXIETY.
"All night, the 14th OF March, q
light burned in Cannon's Office.
know, for I was up watching it from
= cubby hole Of my own that nigh,
and Lucius Littauer was telephoning
I do not know to whom he was talk
ing. But do know what happened
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