The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-20
He THAT GROvELS
Murdoch Scores Congressman
That Are Servi:e.
Says They Lay District at Feet
of Speaker.
DEFENDS HIS CAUSE.
Ayers Cannon Has Played in
Dark With Tammany.
Concludes With Appeal to Kan
sas for Radicals.
DEFENDS HIS CAUSE.

mere OIi TIE same QldIIOEIIl DIS ola
Uncle joe" and in terms emphatic
rammed the craft of 'Stand-patism.'
There is one thing I would like to
scar on your brains with living fire."
he said. The congressman who gets
down and grovels in the dust at the
feet of the speaker takes the people of
his district with him.
Though he said ST am an insurgent,
and am not afraid of the word" Muir
dock declared that he did not intend
to get into the campaign until Speak
er Cannon came to Kansas to speak
against the thing nearest Murdock's
heart. Then he declared he could not
conscientiously stay out.
Murdoch answered the statement
made by Cannon in his Winfield and
Emporia speech to the effect that the
insurgents were fighting rules made
by Thomas B. Reed, former speaker
of the house.
I'm making that statement" said
Murdoch, Cannon is hiding in the
shadow of great statesman. Reed
made just three changes in the rules
of the lower house of congress, and
made them when the Democrats in
that body were attempting to obstruct
legislation"
Now listen to me- I want to tell
you something that Cannon did not
mention in his speech here. While
posing as partisan. as an ardent adj
vocate of party fealty, he has played
in the dark with Tammany. He did
not hesitate to rejoice when his boon
companion, Lorimer of Illinois, was
elected to the United States senate by
a coalition with the Democrats and by
a deal that was rotten to the core;
that has made a stencil in the nos
Lrils of the nation.
SsHo RIncI-od tho
Cannon has thoroughly poisoned
ment for thirty years. He has helped
to block the way to light and free
dom.
we insurgents are outcasts in Can
mons eyes. Now, who are his boon
companions Who are the men who
hang on his shoulder when he saun-
ters down the steps of the national
capitol to the automobile bought and
maintained for him by the govern
ment?"
Continuing, Murdoch said:
Pretending to stand before the
country as a simple man favoring low
expenditures, he has in reality pro-
NOTED loot and plumber without stint,
if it would reward his henchmen or
serve fractional end; pretending to
a democratic sym pathy and making a
display of homely language and mean
est manner, he has been the bulwark
of every plot and cabal of the aris-
tocracy to swindle and cheat and OPP
press the people. Don't be deceived
by that pose of the great commoner.
He has been a living, breathing denial
of the right of this people to repre-
sent government ever since his ascen-
sion to power.
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 and clerks and
minions back out of the room before
| him. See the crowd, bug-eyed with
awe, watch the departure of this man
from his privacy, who has he with
| him?
Look, there goes Joseph sibley,
who wrote to Mr.. Archibald of the
Standard Oil. L have a senator who
wants thousand shall invest? He
is boon companion and 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 regularity.
I Yes, there he goes and beside him
elbowing with the speaker is L. Lit
| tauer, the greatest manufacturer of
gloves in the United States. faint
and more, the mouthpiece and repre-
sentative of what? OF Tammany.
Bargain With Tammany.
"All night the 4th of March a light
| burned in Cannon's office. l know for
| was up watching it from a cubby
hole of my own that night, and Lucius
! Littauer was telephoning. l do not
know to whom he was talking. But
1 do know what happened, and 1 do
know that Herbert Parsons chairman
| OF the county Republican central COM
mittee of New York publicly charged
in a statement that a bargain was
made with Tammany, with the Demo
Gratis of Tammany for their votes to
save Cannon.
THE next day came the fight, March
D. The old rules were voted down and
suddenly to the establishment of the
| regulars upon the signal from some
one Cannon recognized Fitzgerald
Tammany Democrat. who made mo-
/ ton to stop the tide against Cannon
| and l sat where / could hear DalZel
of Pennsylvania turn to that panic
stricken bunch of regulars and say:
Your vote is aye and it was aye
There have been corrupt votes in
! the American congress. There have
been servile votes in the American
congress, but I stand here to tell you
never was more servile and slavish
vote cast in your congress by your
/ representatives. than when under the
/ lash of Dalzell. the slave driver OF
Pennsylvania Your representatives in
Kansas from all the districts but the
I Seventh and Eighth voted under the
lead of that Tammany Democrat tic
bind that corrupt bargain with Tam
many and the New York machine.
"Can you imagine Webster voting
with that gang? or Clay or Jefferson
or Jackson?"
Mr.. Murdoch concluded with an ap-
peal to Kansas voters on behalf of the
insurgents cause
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