The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-10

the banner that honored him, and the
deserter from the Eighth, w. M
Howard witnessed reputation of the
proper significance and, notwith-
standing all the political sulduggery,
whiskey furnished by j. NJ Smith,
and every other artifice known to
political tricksters and pollywogs,
Tribble received domination from
the people and it will be established
satisfactorily by the coming election.
Cannon's friend, w. G. Brantley, has
been reaping the congressional har-
vests for many years and he con-
siders that his long prestige and con-
neCtiOn with the Democrats of the
Eleventh district will continue to
honor him with their suffrage, but
that dastardly betrayal wherein he
helped the system to save Cam
nonism, Republicanism and bossism
derived from one-man control, will
lower the estimation that his con-
-stituents once held for him, and if
some worthy candidate had announc-
ed opposition to him in this last cleo
ton the voters would have forever
placed the 'silken arstocrat' in the
political shades of eternal rest. But
it is not too late, his present term
will not last always and he may an
ticipate that the people will forget
his demeanor in this connection and
by breathing some of the panacea
that he has recently distributed that
at the next election they will turn
out and hand the nomination over to
the system ringster as usual; but the
people have studied the situation and
have learned the true meaning of
CannOnism and awakened to discover
that Mr.. Brantley assisted in the
rescue of one of the most outrage
Gus machine Nominations that any
government has ever Witnessed; they
realize that the autocratic rules of
Speaker Cannon are in absolute alb
rogation to the meaning of the Con-
stitution which does not in any par
agraph give the Speaker, Of the House
of Representatives any power what
ever to dictate, but that under the
rules in existence the Speaker is the
fountain head of all legislation; he
has the power to pass and to kill;
he has the dictation to put his special
appointees on the committees and
they are subsidized in this manner
resulting in system that is arbi-
u Oh y " CuC la w . pdSoCQ ny OOuSICSS
and the Constitution of the United
States. These rules leave the power
in the hands of the Speaker to thwart
the will of the people and manipu-
late the legislation of the House. The
fight should not be. directed to the
Speaker alone. but to the machine,
for the Speaker is the instrument
whereby all is directed and the way
to destroy the evil is to kill the sys-
tenn which is not derived from any
constitutional authority, but is plu-
tocratic domination that gives the
Speaker the power to appoint all the
standing committees; and con-
gresham that understands the sys-
tenn knows that he must gain pres
tige with the Speaker in order that
he may become a member of some
committee, and if he should dissent
from the will of the Speaker after
receiving his appointment he would
not only lose his prestige but would
neevr get on another committee and
not be rewarded with crumbs for his
special locality, this resulting in
blow that would lower him, he, there
fore, is absolutely subsidiary to the
influence of the speaker and his con-
jurement.
These much-praised representa-
tives of the Brantley type consider