Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-01-19
RULE Of CANNON
SCORED BY CLARK
COMPARES SPEAKER TO LOUIS
FOURTEENTH, az Am THE
STATE"
TIDE RISING IN THE MIDDLE
WEST THAT WILL NOT BE
STAYED.

leader of the minority in the mousse
of CONSERVATIVES, attacked Speaker
Cannon and what is known as Gan
nonisrnr Mr. Clark declared that
the tide is everywhere rising against
.Cannonfsm, and that the ngnl
against the house rules would con-
+inue until crowned with complete
success Mr.. Clark said the statement
of Sneaker Cannon that the hght
against the house rules was simply
an effort to prevent any tariff leglsla-
ton was untrue.
Mr.. Clark referred to Speaker can
mons Kansas City speech when ne
said was devoted chiefly to discus
sion of the fight to amend the mouse
rules and to the motives, ambltlons'
mental equipment and polltelcal stat
ms of some of us who have dared TO
lift his ewes above his shoestrlngs,
look him squarely in the face and
battle in the open for the rehaDillta-
ton of the house of representatives.
1t would be interesting to know now
that speech happened to be written
and read to the audience and it would
be edifying to know who furnished
him with certain alleged facts on
which he based some of his remarks"
The speaker criticised the action of
Senator Hale in having the speech
printed as public expense, saying:
Evidently the intention is to cir
culate it ad libitum as piece OF
campaign literature to help elect an
other standpat house of representa-
tives which will, in turn, reflect Mr..
Cannon to the speakership, for, as
Macaulay said of Sir Robert Walpole,
he is 'avaricious of power and clings
to it with the tenacity of swapping
turtle and with the desperation of a
drowning man clutching a plank in
mid-ocean.
THE speaker processes to love and
admire a courageous man. It's
strange commentary on his loud pro-
LESSONS in regard that he bitterly as
sails all those who have courage to
oppose his system, and deals damna-
ton round the land on all who are
not willing to bow the knee and kow-
tow to him. He strikes a Louis the
Fourteenth, I am the state, attitude
and savagely belators all who would
liberalize the rules of the house.
Against Joseph G. Cannon person
ally l have nothing whatsoever; he
has done me many kindness which l
have tried to repay; but / am honest
ly of the opinion that what has come
to be known as 'Cannonism' is a great
evil in our legislative system and
should be rooted out; and the tide is
everywhere rising against Cannon
ISM Since the adjournment of
congress, l have been over most of
Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas
and Oklahoma, and into Colorado and
South Dakota, and everywhere in that
region 'Cannonism' is the resounding
theme of every tongue and against it
that portion of the country is af1ame.
Adam Bede, of Minnesota, describes
himself as a Cannonized statesman
since he was defeated for renomina-
ton by adhering to Uncle Joe, and the
signs of the times indicate that that
peculiar class of statesmen to which
Adam claims to belong will be much
increased this year.
Mr.. Clark said that Speaker Can
mons Elgin speech lin which the
speaker was so reckless and so bitter
added to neither his reputation nor
his popularity" and that in that
speech delivered at Kansas City, "he
he made one declaration which seems
to prove that he is losing the power of
memory. He asserted that the fight
against the house rules was simply
an effort to prevent any tariff legis-
lation, which is the same preposter-
Gus fable by which the Speaker and
his precious rules as brand from
the burning on March the 18th. The
statement is not true, and the only
way the speaker can be excused for
making 1t is that he has forgotten ut
terly what happened that day in the
house of representatives. He knows
that the resolution which | offered bv
authority of the democratic caucus
and the insurgent republicans of the
house to elect a committee of fifteen
to report revised set of rules speci-
fically authorized the speaker to ap-
point the committees which have and
could have anything whatsoever to
do with the tariff bill.
1T was specifically and clearly
stated in the debate on my resolution.
snd subsequently that the alliance or
cooperation, or whatever anybody
may please to call it, betwixt the large
majority of democrats and the in
surgent republicans, went only to a
reformation of the rules, the speaker
undoubtedly read my resolution.
Consequently, every member of the
house, whether Cannonite or an anti
Cannonite and every other well in
formed citeizen of the republic, must
have been utterly amazed when they
read his assertion made at Elgin, and
repeated elsewhere, that the fight to
revise the rules was an effort to de-