Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-19
CANNON WOULD
HANG INSURGENTS?
Declares That Shooting Is Too
Honorable a Death for Some
Members of the House.
COMPARES THEM WITH JUDAS
n lie We're Mere Partixan lie Would
Like 10 See the Democrats
In Power.
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New York. May lS.-Shootug was too
gentlemanly a fate for certain Repub-
licans. Numbered Speaker Cannon of
the house OF prescntatives tonight as
he addressed the annual banquet OF the
| National Association of Manufacturers
at the Waldorf Astoria.
Speaker Cannon was making an eIo-
quent defense Of his conduct as speaker
and he was wildly cheorcd.
J You believe the Republicans have a
majority of a. in the house Of rcprescn-
tat.ves," said the speaker. "and vet we
are under tho sway will not saw of
dishonest-of mistaken people. and now
and then dcmagogIe, seeking power;
and can pick out among them men
who would have competed with Judas.
who betrayed his master
1--WE have a great Republican presi-
dent and a Republican majority vet we
cannot say whether there are not
enough towards TO flock with the Popu-
listic Democratic minority and leave us
without an efficient Republican ma
jority
IF there were two armies drawn up
in actual conflict. do you know what
would be done with such mene"
shoot them!" cried one of the din
ers
shoot themi" Numbered the speaker.
shoot them, That would DC too hon
orablo a death for them. Hanging
would Boz their fate
III Is the essence OF popular gov
eminent that majOritios should rule
and Doe held responsible for their mis-
takes. Therefore / ask you 20 make "a
manly dght for the Republican party So
that when the polls close I'm November
/ you may give majority 90 the RE
publicans bon the house OF raurescnt.t-
tiVes and hold 10 responsible or give "a
majority to tho Democratic populistic
minority
In 1912 We elect n president on
March 4 the present Congress goes out
of existence 10 I were a mere parti-
san, I'd Ike 90 see the Democrats have
full power iu both houses so thoy would
be forced, because of their opposition
20 the P1yue tariff law. 10 act upon
their prctcns ions and enact O. new tariff
law Then they would have that TO
defend rather than misrcprcsent the
present tariff law. They would have a
baby of their own 90 protect.
NJ MfIf "a mere HiNAlHAur ne
glad 20 see Dolliver. Bristow. IaFol-
lctte and Clapp Of Minnesota Join hands
with Champ clark and company But
that would bring sorrow. shortened
wages and misery 10 millions of hearth
stones. therefore. as a man of a. who
Will soon be where / viii wear either
muslin or asbestos halo, IA rather
march To- defeat in the future than 90
have our Populist or so-callod progress
sive friends reaping victory.
IT would rather that we carry the
next house and senate by a sound real
| Republican majority although We lost
in 1912. ia postpone the evil day as
long as possible and perchance, though
IL Is "a forlorn hope. wisdom may come
south OF Mason and piNou's land God
bless you-you need not bother about
New England; sheu take care Of her
self"
Earlier iu HIS address the speaker
said. 1.-THE dcmagoguc. the short
sighted man. the specialist, the phllos-
ophcr-I was about TO say the college
professor. but there are notable cXcep-
tious-nnd fault with our country To
such I have mo- message. They some
times occupy the uplift magazines or
the metropolitan dailies and they some
times anathematize the existing order.
n rs our place 90 march on and say.
None Of these things move me-