Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-02-10

Wllnam j. Bryan Will Shlne. IL is
admitted that Mr.. Bryan's indorse-
ment is absolutely necessary to give
any Democrats campaign for the pres
idency fair start.
There are Democrats who believe
that Champ Clark, the Democratic
leader in the house, may be an out
and-out candidate for the presidency
and that this will be more likely to
happen IL the next house shall be
Democratic and Mr.. Clark be honored
with its speakership.
The Republicans realize that Gov.
Harmon has a good deal Of strength
in Ohio, which is Taft's state. One
Democrat said, Harmon can carry
Ohio Another Democrat instantly
answered, Marshall can carry Indiana
and Ohio too" and another Democrat,
not to be outdone, said, Champ Clark
can carry Indiana, Ohio and Missouri,
too"
Many Seek speakership.
Who will be the next Speaker of the
House of Representatives? Matters
have moved along so rapidly in one
direction that most of the close friends
of Speaker Cannon in the House ad.
NIT that the chances are before very
long he will come out with state.
ment to the effect that he is not to
be considered as candidate for re.
election to succeed himself in the
office that generally is accredited with
having more power attached to it
than any other Office except that of
president of the United States.
The number of men who would like
to be Speaker is perhaps limited only
by the membership of the House.
There are comparatively few members,
however, who by length of service and
by shown and known ability have the
right, without exciting either smile
or criticism, to announce their candi-
dacy for the high homer.
Cannon's Reelection improbable.
The men who are close to Speaker
Cannon personally and politically,
have been saying very freely recently
that while they do not think there is
| any real reason why Mr.. Cannon
should not aspire to be his own sue
cessor, there is, as far as they are con-
cerned, a real reason why they should
not urge him to stand for reelection.
| They say their constituents have
| come to believe that Mr.. Cannon has
been in Office long enough and that
their representatives in congress
| should vote for some other man.
1t is an assured fact that enough
of the so-called regular" Republicans
have intimated that they will not vote
again for Mr.. Cannon to insure that
his reelection to the Speakership is
practically impossible. The regulars
whose constituents have said that
they do not look with favor on another
term in the Speakership for the Dan.
vile man, added to the insurgents who
have been against Mr.. Cannon's rule
of the House for a long time, make
enough Republicans virtually to com
pass the Speakers defeat if he should
offer himself again for the first place
in the House.
1t is probable that if Speaker Can
non could name his successor in Office
he would select Representative Ohm
stead of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Olmstead
has presided over the affairs of the
House when it was sitting "as com
mittee of the whole" a great many
times, having been called to the chair
by the Speaker to preside in his TEN
porary absence. Mr.. Olmsted politi
calIy is a firm believer in what the
country has come to know as the
Cannon doctrine. He is an extreme
high protectionist and he believes that
the rules of the House as they at pres
en- exist are the best possible regula
lions by which the House can be gov
erned.
Hope Of the "Insurgents."
With the exception of the Republic
an members from the state of Wis
consin, most of the representative
from the middle western states which
lie east of the Mississippi river have
stood consistently in the ranks of thu
regulars and in support of the rule o
Speaker Cannon. The eastern repre-
sentatives in the main have been reg
ular," although Representative Angus
tus Peabody Gardner of Massachu
sets, son-in-law OF Henry Cabo
Lodge, has been as much of an insuI
gent as has Victor Murdock of Kan
sas, who ordinarily is looked upon a
the chief of the "rebellious'' forces.
Most of the real insurgents, thos
who have been insurgents through
good weather and bad, come from
west of the great river. ThoS sra to
few in number to hope To- elect on
of their own kip0 ss Speaker O
the next House and tkcy see Httl
: chance of enough insurgent gain Il
the east to overcome the majorit
which the regulars now hold an
: which they seem likely to hold in
: depleted form during the next cor
gress. 1t is the hope Of the insui
gents, as they express it openly, tina