Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-07-21
MURDOCH FLAYS
SPEAKER CANNON
lNSURGENT FOLLOWS CANNON At
EMPORIA, KANSAS.
Charges the Speaker with Having OF.
StruCted Progressive Legislation
for Thirty Years, in the Interest
Of the Trusts. Tells of Corrupt
Bargain with Tammany.

EMPORIA, Kan, July 19-Congress-
man Murdoch. following in the wake
of Speaker Cannon, today defended
the insurgents and replied to the
speakers charges made here yester-
day. He declared that for 80 years
Cannon has been opposed to lOcOmO-
ton in any direction. He said Can
non is not only a standpatter but a
standstiller, and that during his po-
litical life he had opposed about all
the progressive legislation ever Off
cred.
HE opposed federal inspection of
meats, he stood opposed to circula-
tion, to currency reform, to pure food
laws, to registrations, to civil serv-
ice reform and to practically all pro-
gressive legislation since the Civil
war"
Murdoch went on to say that while
posing as partisan and an ardent
advocate of party fealty, he has
played in the dark with Tammany.
He did not hesitate to rejoice when
his boon companion, Lorimer of Illi-
nOis, was elected to the United States
senate by coalition with the demo-
'crats that was rotten to the core and
that has made a stencil in the nos
trils of the nation.
when the insurgents offered an
amendment reducing the tariff OH
petroleum, Cannon left the chair and
ragged over the floor like wild man.
He said the house couldn't make the
reduction. Then is when the insur-
gents became revolutionists from the
decision of the chair and won their
fight. A big hand came down from
the blue sky and smashed Cannon,
the glove schedule, the petroleum
schedule and all, and that hand was
William H. Taft's.
Murdock charges Cannon with be-
ing "a living, breathing denial of the
right Of this people to representative
government"
Look at your speaker, my friends.
Stand with me and with your own
gaping congressman in line as your
speaker comes from his private room.
"See stenographers and clerks and
minOns back out of the room before
minOns back out Of the room before
him. See the crowd, bigeyed with
awe, watch the departure of this man
from his privacy. Who has he with
him? Look, there goes Joseph &.
Sibley. who wrote to Archbold of the
Standard, i have senator who
wants a thousand. Shall ! invest?'
He is a boon companion and an in
innate of your ruler. Also touching
shoulders with him as he comes out
is Billy Lorimer, boon companion OF
this Stanch defender of party regu-
larity.
eyes, and there goes beside him,
elbowing with the speaker, is Lucius
Littauer the greatest manufacturer
of gloves in the United States, the
mouthpiece and representative of
what? OF Tammany. All night the
14th of March lights burned in Can
mons Office l know, for l was up
watching it from cubbyhole of my
own that night, and Lucius Littauer
was telephoning. l do not know to
whom he was talking.
"But l do know what happened.
And l do know that Herbert Parsons,
chairman of the county republican
central committee of New York, pub
bargain was made with Tammany,
with democrats of Tammany for their
votes for Cannon"
MuIuoCh Sdiu tHdl lHe HeAI udy Iilc
old rules were voted down and sud-
denly, "and to the astonishment of
the regulars" Cannon recognized Fitz
Gerald a Tammany democrat. who
had made motion to stop the tide
against Cannon, and | sat where
could hear regulars say: Your vote
is aye and it was aye
Murdoch said there had been cor
rupt votes in the American congress,
but that never was there a more
slavish vote cast than was cast under
the lead of that Tammany demo-
crat to bind that corrupt bargain with
Tammany and the New York ma
chine"