The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-19
SHOOTING TOO GOOD
DECLARES CANNON
Compares insurgents With SOL
dierS Who Prove TraitorouS
in War Time.
EXPECTS HIS HALO SOON
NOT CERTAIN WHETHER WILL
BE MUSLIN OR ASBE SToS.

New York. May 1s.-Shooting was
TOO gentlemanly fate for certain Re
publicans, Numbered Speaker Cannon OF
the House of Representatives tonight,
as he addressed the annual banquet OF
the National Association of Manufac-
turers at the WaldoTf-Astoria-
Speaker Cannon was making an elo-
Quent defense ofshis conduct as speaker
and he was wildly cheered-
You believe the Republicans have a
majority of fOrty-four in the House OF
Representatives and two-thirds or tile
United States Senate, said the speaker.
not say of dishonest-of mistaken peo-
pie, and now and then a demagogue
seeking power; and l can pick out
among them men who would have COM
Deted with Judas who betrayed his
Master.
I'VE have a great Republican Presi-
dent and a Republican majority. yet we
cannot say whether there are not
ulistic-DemOcratic minority and leave
us without an efficient Republican ma
iority.
Hanging Their Fate.
IF there were two armies drawn up
in actual conflict. do you know what
would be done with such men?"
shoot them cried one of the diners.
Shoot themT Numbered the speak
er. shoot them. That would be too
honorable a death for them. Hanging
''It is. the essence of popular govern
ment that majorities should rule and
be held responsible for their mistakes.
Therefore, ! ask you TO make manly
fight for the Republican party so that
when the polls close in November you
may give a majority to the Republic
cans in the House of Representatives
and hold it responsible or give a ma
jOrity to the Populistic min
GRITTY.
In 1912 we elect a president, on
March 4 the present Congress goes
out of existence. If were mere par
tisan, I'd like to see the Democrats
have full power in both houses so they
would be forced. because of their oppo-
sition 10 the Payne tariff law, to act
upon their pretensions and enact a new
tariff law. Then they would have that
to defend rather than misrepresent the
present Tariff law. They'd have baby
of their own to protect.
Doubtful aS to Taft.
IF I were a mere partisan. I'd be
glad to see DOlliver, Bristow, LaFOl-
lette and Clapp of Minnesota, Joined
hands with Champ Clark and company
But that would bring sorrow, shorten
ed wages and misery to millions OF
hearthstones, therefore. as a man of "A,
who will soon be where I will wear
either a muslin or asbestos halo, I'd
rather march TO defeat in the future
than to have our POpuliSt or SO-cailed
progressive friends reaping a victory.
Il would rather that we carry the
next House and Senate by a sound,
real Republican majority, although we
lost in 1912. I'd postpone the evil day
as long as possible. and perchance-
though it is a forlorn hoDe-wisdom
may come south OF Mason and Dixon's
line. God bless you, you need not
bother about New England She'll take
care OF herself"
Earlier in his address the speaker
said: THE dema gogue. the short
sighted man, the specialist, the phil
osopher-I was about to say the col
lege professor. but there are notable
exceptions-find fault with our coun-
try. To such I have no message. They
sometimes occupy the uplift magazines
or the metropolitan dailies and they
sometimes mathematics the existing
order. 1t is our place to march on and
say: None Of these things move me-