The Sentinel=record., 1910-01-14
DECLARES THAT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS RISING AGAINST
 HIS TYRANNY.
Declares Cannon Acted Like an Ink Fish, Trying to Darken Waters When Insurgents Would
 Revise Rules.

Dayton, Ohio, -an. 13.-In a speech here tonight Champ Clark, leader of the minority in the house of repre- sentatives, attacked Speaker Cannon and what is known as "Cannonism. ?
 MT. Clark declared that the tide is everywhere rising against Canon ism and that the fight against the house rules would continue until it was crowned with complete sue cess.
 MT. Clark said the statement of Speaker Cannon that the fight against the house rules was simply any effort to prevent any tariff legislation was untrue
 MT. Clark referred to Speaker Can mons Kansas City speech which he said was devoted chiefly to a dis cussion of the fight to amend the house rules and to the motives, am hitions, mental equipment and politi- catus of some of us who have dared to life his eyes above his shoestrings. look his sQuarely Tn the lace and bat tie in the open for the rehabilitation of the house of representatives.
 "It would be interesting to know how that speech happened to be writ ten and read to the audience and it would be edifying to know who fur nished him with certain alleged facts on which he based some of his re- marks"
 The speaker criticised the action of Senator Hale in having the speech printed as a public document and at public expense, saying:
 Evidently the intention is to cir culate it ad libitum as a piece of cam. paign literature to help elect another standpat house of representatives, which will, in turn, re-elect Mr. Can non to the speakership, for, as Ma. eaulay said of Sir Robert Walpoie he is "avaricious of power and clings to 1t with the tenacity of snapping turtle and with the desperation of a drowning man clutching at plank in mid-ocean.
 The speaker professes to love and admire a courageous man It's strange commentary on his loud pro. fessions in that regard that he bit. terly assails all those who have cour- age to oppose his system, and deals damnation round the lanr' on all who are not willing to bow the knee and kowtow to him.
 He strikes a Louis the Fourteenth I-am-the-state' attitude and savagely helabors all who would liberalize the rules of the house.
 Against Hon. Joseph c. Cannon personally have nothing whatsoever. he has done me many kindnesses which l have tried to repay but I am honestly of the opinion that what has come to be known as 'Cannonism' Is great evil in our legislative system and should be rooted out, and the tide is everywhere rising against Can ncnism.'
 Since the adjournment of congress l have been over most of Iowa, Ne braska, Missouri. Kansas aaa Okla. homa and into Colorado and South Dakota, and everywhere in that re. zion 'Cannonism is the resounding theme of every tongue and against it thatp ortion of the country is aaame.
 Adam Pede of Minnesota describes himself as a Cannonized statesman. since he was defeated for renomina- ton by adhering to Uncle Joe, and the signs of the time indicate that that particular class of statesmen to which Adam claims to belong will be- much increased this year.
 Mir. Clark said that Speaker Can non's Eligin speech "in which the speaker was so reckless and so bit. ter adder to neither his reputation nor his popularity and that in that