The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-04-28
CANNON WILL Be
NEXT TO GET OUT
Believed That Speaker Will Follow
Aldrich and Hale 10 Retirement.

l..
cannon EcNt. is the frequent remark
of those who discuss the coming. more
or less voluntary, retirement of Sena-
tors Aldrich and Hale from the Sen
ate. The statement was made in this
correspondence some six weeks ago
that Speaker Cannon probably would
announce before the end of the pres
ent session his determination to re-
tire from the speakership the 4th of
March next year. The information
was from a source eminently reliable
IL looks at this time as though il were
absolutely correct
There can be little doubt that
hessrs. Hale and Aldrich had an I'M
Outstanding, as both announced the
same day their intention to get out of
public life. There was some need of
haste on the part Of the Maine Sena-
tor, as the campaign against him had
grown so warm the fact that he could
not be reelected threatened to crop
out any day. But in the case OF SEN
ator Aldrich there was no such need
OF hurry, as there is not a doubt he
could have been reelected had ne
chosen. He always has suited the ma
jority OF the people of Rhode Island
a strong and indignant majority was
going 10 fight him this year. but IL
was known in advance that the fight
would not be won. The most infu-
entail paper in Rhode Island, and one
of the really influential papers Of the
country, the Providence Journal. had
its campaign against Senator Aldrich
all mapped out. and this despite the
fact that he is the largest individual
stakeholder in the company which
owns the Journal
II still is insisted by those who in
augurated the fight against Senator
Hale that he could not have succeeded
himself; that the opposition to him
in the Pine Tree State whose politics
he has dominated so long. had become
so powerful that his defeat was as
sured. 1t seems that the candidacy
Of his son for Congress in one OF the
districts OF the State has aroused the
ire of a large portion of the Repub-
lican voters Of Maine. Ii was thought
by them TO be getting to he case OF
Too much Hale" A circular dis
state by his opponents recited the
fact that Senator Hale and his sons
already were drawing $4,000 a year
in salaries from the Federal Govern
ment, and that To elect the son TO
Congress would increase the family
income from the mt to $27-
900 year The .ung Hale
Will not get the ~. ,..l. but that
Asher Kinds, the parliamentary eX-
pert of the House of Representatives
who stands at Speaker Cannon's right
hand and unraVelS tangles of pro-
cedure as they rise, will win. Ii re-
mains TO be seen whether Maine can
survive the passing of the house of
Hale.
Cannon Knew All About II.
There are some indications that
Speaker Cannon knew of the determi-
nation of the two New England Sen
ators to retire which lends cOnsid-
cradle color to the belief that part of
the arrangement was for him to do
the same thing SO far as the spea kerr
ship is concerned, though, Of course
he is to keep his seat in the House.
There is not the least bit Of doubt
that should Cannon declare himself
out of the speakership. following the
announced purpose of Hale and AL
drich TO retire from the Senate, and
public life, the Democrats would lose
by it, and would have to make the
tight this fail along somewhat differ
ent lines from those laid out
senator Beverage is credited with
having remarked recently that Mr.. Aid
rich was intellectual, but not intelli-
gent Senator BeVeridge is supposed
TO have meant that the great reac-
ceSses of high order, but was not
guided by knowledge or comprehen-
9 Sne country, MT Aldrich has not al
lowed himself to keep up with the
changes in sentiment among the peo-
pie. lie has shut his eyes 10 insur-
Sency, so-called, save as it showed it
self In the Senate. He devoted his ener-
gles to overcoming and circumventing
the insurgents in the Senate bat never
gave thought TO the relief of condi-
tlonS which made insurgency. He could
sion demanded, as often has been
shown, but he never appeared TO real
lZe the necessity of bending where in
surrection against his rule as repre-
sentative of the old sentiment in the
Kepuollcan party was concerned. And
TINS also has been true of Senator Hale,
man or far less intellectual strength
and considerably less personal maene,
tism than the Rhode Island Senator
with Hale and Aldrich gone, the Re-
publican side will be without a leader. !
Republicans viii succeed these two, but !
VIII not have the Craftsmanship of the |
TWO great Committees of Finance and |
held by Mr.. Aldrich and |
Mr. MT, Hale, respectively. Perkins, of /
CallIornla, man of very mediocre /
ability, and Burrows, of MICHIGAN. of I
whom the same is true, and whose re-
rank to Hale and Aldrich on appro-
2rlatlons and finance, respectively.
Selther possesses any OF the quail
les OF leader. In five years the Sem
tie VIII De led by Democrat or a
republican insurgent
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