The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21
In a Speech Before the Illinois
Republican Association
The Speaker Turns His Toast
into a Roast.
UPLIFT MAGAZINES
And Insurgent Republicans OBJ
jects of Attack.
Calls Attention to His Increased
Majority in the House.

! Washington, March 21.-Speaker Can
non turned defeat into victory at Sat
urday nights banquet of the Illinois
/ Republican association. He turned his
toast into a roast of what he called the
| uplift magazines and newspapers and
! the Cummins and LaFollette brand of
/ Republicans.
It's uncomfortable AT times to live in
| a government of popular rule said Mr..
Cannon. Once in a while a feeble
minded individual the inmate of an
insane asylum, an abnormal person
correctly called crank, makes himself
| uncomfortable.
the wires leading to the great white
throne and who won't give any of the
rest of US chance at them. Any man
is entitled to be a crank, reformer.
and to proclaim it himself.
There are those against whom prop
erly lies an indictment under the Sher-
man antitrust law for possessing
monopoly on wisdom. Those who dis
agree with them are stricken with
,anathemas. It's all right They have
right to. do any blessed old thing.
And yet while it makes this country
little uncomfortable at times, none of
us would swap the United States for
any other country on the globe.
THE trend of the uplift magazines
and newspapers is to -decry combina-
tions. Sometimes 1 think they would
not be satisfied unless they should gov
ern the balance of the 10000, 900 people
in the United States.
THE trouble with them is that they
can't make the balance of the 90,00O,000
yield to their rule,
From time to time we have con-
tests. We have just had one. The
country believes We have a Republican
majority of forty-four in the house. AS
a matter of fact we have a Republican
majority in neither the house nor the
have until
people speak again next November
Country VIII Go Right Along.
when you read the papers you will
find that some of them will suppress
the news and some of them will tell
stories about it. Some of them VIII
talk about Cannonism.
''Now just suppose that these 100
pounds OF human clay in this frail
body before you should fail. My God
what would these uplift magazines and
be sorry. but the balance of the world
has no time TO be sorry.
1.-The greatest man of this country
was Lincoln, a son of Illinois, and yet
this country went forward without a
break when he passed on. 1t must be
so. else this worIdawould be one vast
house of m ournings And so would it
go on with Cannon gone.
To-day A nominal Republicans, |
members OF the majority. crossed the |
aisle and made a, compact with the |
They abolished the rules |
committee.
committee on rules can say Let there !
be light and there is light. We who |
live in Washington and know the truth |
know that the report of the rules COM |
mittee is of no avail at all until it has
been Evitalized by a majority vote of |
the house.
But most people get their informa-
ton from the uplift magazines. and |
they believe it. And cowardly mem
oers of congress. returning to their
tell them that which is
1ot so. But so 1t Is in our great re-
public.
'"They have destroyed the commit
zee on rules. They have declared that
he speaker shall no longer be mem
Der. / trust it will operate well. 1t
depends on the personnel of the ten
men who belong to, it. q
1.-The papers will say that the speaker
Of the house said this was a govern
nent of ma1orities: that the majority
n the house was now made up of the
and Is per cent slough from
he Republicans: that he would well
speaker vacant.
Retention Good for 10000, 900?
"a member of the minority offered
such a resolution. Men who had been
the personality of the speak
IT, followers of LaFollette and Cum
If their convictions. But the result
vas that while I was elected speaker
" a majority of 26. the house declin-
d to declare the office vacant, upon my
IMITATION. by vote of 81. However.
his has no Importance. except as it
nay result for the best interests of 90
O0, 900 people.
1.-THE Republican portion of the Hi
lois delegation stood solid. The old
tate of Illinois has shown that what
yer the metropolitan press may say
he takes her politics like the kentuck-
an takes his whisky. straight.
THE men of Illinois are not like
hose claiming TO be Republicans who
re following Populism and trying to :
utstrIp William Jennings Bryan. God
less 'em,- because. so far as am con-
erned, he is the only one who can
less them
IT would rather advocate the true
Principles of Republicanism and go
own to defeat. than to march with
he men who would disrupt the Repub-
can party, and succeed
Mr. Cannon punctuated his remarks
" deft manipulation of his unlighted