Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26
UNCLE JOE ASSAiLS
 BALKY PARTY MEN

Speaker Cannon Vigorously AT-
 raigns Opposition.
 Fault finders, cranks, demagogues and college professors were assailed by Uncle Joe Cannon in vigorous ad- dress at the banquet which closed the convention of the National Manufac- turers' association. Speaker Cannon's address was looked upon as a reply to the speech of President Kirby of the association, who had branded both the Republican and the Democratic parties as unfit and had urged that there should be a new political party.
 Hitting the table with his fist, he eXclaimed
 If two great armies were drawn up in actual war and there were in one of them those who professed to be with it and refused to charge when the general gave the command, do you know what would be done with themY
 Cries of "Shoot 'em; shoot emp
 Uncle Joe: "That is an honorable death! No; they would be hanged"
 In profound silence the company waited on Uncle Joe's words. He con- tinued:
 'I do not mention names. It is the essence of a Republican government that the majority shall, control. It is the rule that if the majority under re- sponsible leadership makes a mistake the 90,OOO,000 will give the minority that was the power that is.
 ''I say to you, make a manly fight, striking from the shoulder, to insist that when the polls close next Novem- Der you either give a Republican ma jority in the national congress or that you give our popular Democratic friends a full majority"
 ,- Frank West Rollins,
 NERAL formerly governor of
 New H a m D h r e, EN'N@o' p e a d e d guilty to smuggling in the United States dis trict court in New York and paid a fine of 5000. The plea of guilty was made shortly after a federal grand jury had handed in an indictment charging him with false declaration. Punch, the petted scion of famous line of polo horses, who was forty-five years old, probably the oldest horse in the world died at the farm of A. T. Jones in Hyde Park, N. Y. Punch's remains were inferred with all the re- spect that could be accorded human being in the front yard of MT. Jones' home, where a monument on which will be inscribed a record of his achievements will be erected.
 The Hinman- Green direct nomina- tions bill, which would abolish the party convention and which was de- feated in the assembly some time ago, was defeated in the senate by a vote of B yeas to 25 nays. The vote in each house against the Hinman- Green bill makes it certain that Governor Hughes will not call an extra session of the legislature to consider primary reform legislation.
 The secretary of state and the Brit ish ambassador signed at Washington treaty delimiting the boundary be- tween the United States and Canada, running from a point in Passama- quoddy bay between Treat island and Friar head and extending through the bay to the middle of Grand Manan channel, which had been in dispute ever since 17S3.
 President Taft, yielding to the strong sentiment in Kansas against capital punishment and where a law has been passed against it, commuted to life i'm prisonment the death sentence upon Private Charles O'Neal of the United States army, who was to have been executed for the killing of his sweet, heart in fit of jealous rage.
 The senate at Albany passed the Palisade park bills just as they came from the assembly without amend ment, practically insuring the con- summation of the project. All opposi- tiOn to the Palisades park project had dwindled away when the matter was called up by Senator Payne.
 Roswell D. Williams, Tammany leader of the Seventeenth assembly district of New York, and his five lieutenants, who had been indicted as his confederates in alleged violation of the election laws, was declared not guilty by jury in the criminal branch of the supreme court.
 Miss Ellis Meredith, a well known clubwoman of Denver, was chosen election commissioner, her total of 20,- 997 exceeding the combined vote of her seven men competitors. She ran on the Citizens ticket and is the first woman elected to office in Denver.
 After a brief conference in the Hud- son Terminal building in New York between the representative of the Erie trainmen and conductors and the