The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-04-15
Friday, April Is, 1910
MR.. LANNON'S LATEST
OUTBREAK

sadly on edge. The slightest act
of retaliation by the Insurgent
Republicans Of the House, the
most trifing manifestation Of
insurgency, provoke him to
wrath, says the Baltimore Sun.
1t was, perhaps, only natural,
after the rebellious members Of
his party in the lower house Of
Congress had united with the
Democrats and clipped his claws,
that the Speaker should then
roar defiance at those of his own
political household who had COM
passed his humiliation. But
that denunciation should have
sufficed for the rest of the ses-
sion. To continue to vent his
wrath upon the Insurgents, to
hurl hot defiance at them and
sheer at them for lacking cour-
ago to depose him from the
Speakership, is, after all, only
an admission that his withers
have been wrung and that he
cannot get over the pain and the
chagrin of it. It would be far
better for the Speakers reputa-
ton as a frst-class fighting man
to hide his scars and take the re-
suits of his punishment in digni-
fed silence.
Mr.. Cannon's latest demon
station of belligerency was comic
to the last degree. The Insur-
gent Republicans and the Demo
Gratis voted against an appropri-
alton for the maintenance of
automobiles provided for the
Speaker and the Vice-President.
Mr.. Cannon must pay out of his
own pocket the wages of his
chauffeur and all other expenses
inseparable from the operation
of an automobile. This 'affront''
aroused the Speakers anger to
white heat. His party is boast
ing just now of the economies
which it has effected in the adj
ministration of the Government,
of the money which it is saving
the taxpayers, of it's overwhelm-
ing desire to practice frugality
and to avoid extravaganza. The
Speaker, therefore, ought to
have adapted himself gracefully
to the situation. According to
all accounts, he is a statesman
with a plethoric purse aud would
not suffer greatly if he paid his
own automobile bills. Moreover
by assuming the entire expense
he would demonstrate that he is
in heartily accord with the policy
of economy which Attorney
General Wickersham emphasized
in his Chicago speech last week.
But Mr.. Cannon hates the In
surgents worse than he loves
economy in the expenditures of
the Government. So he berated
them and baited them and made
a very understandable spectacle
of himself. He defed the Repu-
ublicans who voted to strip him
of the dictatoraial powers which
he once exercised, to dispose
him from the Speakership-to
have the courage of their con-
victions and join with the Demo-
Gratis to drive him from the
Speakers chair. The Speaker
apparently wants to be a martyr,
and if he keeps on batting the
Insurgents they may combine
with the Democrats and crafty
his ambition. On the other hand,
if he is merely bluffiing his bluff
may be called before the end of
the session and he may be depos-
ed from his high office and re-
duced to the status of a Represen-
tative in Congress. He is in
viting that fate by his exhibitions
of Feasibility and by his inability
to accept the position sof an un-
crowned Gar from whose hands
the sceptre of power has been