Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-06-16
How Wall able Democratic
Votes Are to Cannon
Mr.. Watson Answers Letter of Mr.. brantiey

house, it is perfectly apparent to
any impartial mind that it would
have been impossible for the stand
pat Republicans to have passed a
tariff revision bill which did not
lower the rates of the Dingley sched-
ules. With suchi a committee in
control as that which was proposed
by the Hon. Champ Clark, it would
have been utterly impossible for the
Republicans to have revised the
tariff upward, so as to advance the
cost of living all along the line.
Consequently Speaker Cannon ut
tered nothing but the literal truth
when he declared in Kansas City
that Clark's committee on rules, had
it been chosen by the house, as Clark
proposed, would have reduced the
tariff duties instead of increasing
them. That's what Cannon meant
when he said that Clark's committee
on rules would have treated the
tariff as the wolves treat the sheep.
Proceeding with his address, Mr..
Cannon said:
The Republican majority of the
house would have been helpless in
any effort to register its will, because
any resolution for a special rule to
bring the bill to a vote would have
had to be referred to the committee
on rules dominated by Champ Clark,
leader of the minority, and leader
of the effort to prevent the enact
ment of the bill
is it not perfectly clear to any in
telhgent mind that Speaker Cannon
expressed nothing but the truth?
With Champ Clark and his COM
mittee on rules controlling the stu
alton how would it have been posi-
BILE for Payne and Dalzell and Can
non to have over-ridden him with
such a monstrosity as the Payne
Aldrich bill? Speaker Cannons ar
gument knocks James Getaways
pamphlet into a cooked hat Speaker
Cannons address itself is the con-
elusive answer to Brantley's decep-
tive letter
But, continuing, Speaker Cannon
said:
IF all the minority Chat is the
Democrats) had co-operated with
the so-called insurgents Republicans
the nominal Republican majority in
the House would have been destroy
ed"
Who was it that kept all the mi
nority, the Democrats, from cooper
ating with the so-called insurgents.
and thus destroying the Republican
in the House? One answer
is, the twenty-three Democratic de-
serters, one of whom was the Hon.
w. T. Brantley, of Georgia.
Continuing, Mr.. Cannon said:
If all the minority had cooper
ated the very first pledge
of the Republican national conven-
ton, and the Republican President,
Mr.. Taft, would have failed as COM
pletely as though a Democratic
House of Representatives had been
elected instead of a House with
Republican majority of
forty-six."
WHO BROKE AWAY?
Now, think of this. How many
Republicans broke away from Can
non on that question of the tyrannical
control of the house by the Rules
Committee of Three? The answer is,
some thirty-two or three How many
Democrats deserted to the Republi-
cans? The answer is, twenty-three.
By adding these two numbers to-
gether, yon will see that the insurg
ing Republicans, added to a solid
Democatic minority, would have
been sufficient to have overcome the
party in the house; for
it had, on full vote of all the Re-
publicans, majority of but forty
six, and the number of the insurg-
ing Republicans, added to the desert
ing Democrats made ffty-six Con-