The Detroit times., 1910-07-19
CANNON SAYS HE'S
IN RACE TO STAY
VIII Not Withdraw From Speaker
ship Contest Answers Bristow's
Attack on Senator Aldrich.

EMPoRIA. Kas., July 1s.--Joseph g.
Cannon Will not take himself out OF
the race for the speakership OF the
next house of representatives. This
be made plain near the conclusion OF
his speech yesterday afternoon. His
utterances In part follow;
II am speaker and on March next
i will have been speaker for eight
years, longer continuous term than
any man ever served as speaker since
the foundation Of the government.
-Eomebody has got to be the scape-
goat through magazines and letters.
Candidates for congress are asked,
VIII you pledge yourself not to vote
Tor that old car for speaker
"Oh, the scapegoat! This little 154
pounds of clay can not bear many
sins of into the wilderness. IL my
constituency Is as kind to me as IL has
been for SO years, l will go back II
God spares my life and be In the next
congress.
"They wanted me to pledge that
would not be candidate for speaker
q the Republicans have a majority or
the uEXL uOuSGt Uul do AOuB Cd SOd
lets me live, the undertaking periodi-
Gals and the so-called independent Re-
publicans shall not make me say that
will not be candidate for speaker
any more than they shall make me
say, II / am again elected to congress,
that will not vote when my name is
called"
During this portion OF his speech
MIR. Cannon read from a typewriter
manuscript, which, In part, follows:
Senator Bristow, In his speech at
Winfield. charged that Senator Aid
rich and others brought about an In
crease OF the duty on manufactured
rubber and thereupon organized rub
Der trust.
Senator Bristow said that under
the operation OF the Payne tariff Law
there was a decrease In the amount
of manufactured rubber imported ant
therefore q loss In revenue.
EITHER knowingly or ignorantly.
Senator Bristow did not state the
facts. The truth is, as shown by tn
oficial figures OF the bureau OF sta.
fistics for the nine months ending
March 80, 1910, under the Payne law,
there was an increase In the impor-
tMLlOu Oh TuDUST iudnutdCtuicSd AhOuht-
ing to $356.3S2
For the same period the revenue
derived from imports OF manufacture
ed rubber increased s125,3S4.
The senator further said, that for
the same period as Indicated above
there was an increase of more than
$40,000,00O In the amount OF crude
rubbed imported.
tVafnndaH
his audience TO understand that, not
outstanding the increased importa-
ton or crude rubber, the imports OF
manufactured rubber decreased. The
truth Is. as | have shown from OH.
cial figures, that the importations OF
manufactured rubber increased under
the Payne law IN spite OF the five per
cent higher duty
Then he proceeds to put In quota
ton marks what his authority Is, God
only knows--that Senator AldFich and
others organized rubber trust i
don't know whether Senator Aldrich
and others organized trust. Being
iininformed, | neither deny nor afiirm.
hut n Senator Aldrich. occupying his
great position, did organize a trust.
then. under the Sherman antitrust
act, pFuNAuSu Trusts cuBhb0u IN A'Si
state commerce, he Is liable not only
TO severe punishment by fine, but by
Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
rLet me suggest to Senator Bristow
and HIS constituents that instead OF
endeayofing to make political capital
by misststing Official figures and
making charges against the brother
senators, he had better, as a good
citizen, give the information that he
Processes to have to the appropriate
grand jury and to the department OF
Justice for their action In the enforce
ment OF the laws that cover us all"