Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-20
HYBRID HOUSE
MAJORITY
SCORED
UNCLE JOE AT BANQUET
VOICES BITTER WRATH
Defeated But UnSubdued Aged
Veteran Vigorously Denoun-
ces Cfanks in Politics. Repub-
IicanS no Longer Rule Senate

lBy Morning journal SaeUHai f.ensed Mlrel
Washington. March la-Nith eyes
glowing defiance and Vote thunder-
( ing at his enemies with all the day s.
pcnt up bitterness Speaker Cannon
nude - vitriolitie attack on thr "hN-
brid house majority at the annual
dinner OF the Illinois Republican as
4 sociation tonight
His face was worn from the force of
the terrific assault made upon him
and his voice lacked It's old jauntness
and resonance.
1 He was Uncle Joe" in fighting
/ trim.
A startling statement made by the
power shorn, but defiant speaker, was
that the republicans no longer have
majority in the senate,
MY Cod, he cried with great sol
ennitN, suppose this so pounds of
common elias should drop dead to-
night what would the newspapers and
magazines which make a profession Of
lying and slanderng do then2 My
daughters. grandchildren, my son-in-
law would be sorry. But the bal
ance of the world would not have
time to be sorry There never was a
truer word said than, Let the dead
bury its dead ii that were not true,
then the world would be one vast
house OF mourning.
monopoize the wires from the earth
up to the great white throne. They
don't give the majority of us "A chance |
They have cure-als, they think God /
and one constitute majority, forget |
ting that God alone Is a majority ana +
can do without their help
Were thankful for Christian NOR
allty. once in while we find people
who have "A monopoly Of All knowl
edge and therefore should be indicted
and prosecuted under the sherman
antitrust law Al who disagree with
them are anathema
"Tts uncomfortable sometimes to
live in a government by the people
There viii always be some who are
feeble minded, abnormal insane, or
to use a shorter ana more common
word are crnnks. But we've got to
have them
There was a neW majority made
today # consisted of the democrats II
and fifteen per cent slough from the
republican party They destroyed the
on rules Then what did
they do2 resolution WAS presented
declaring the office OF speaker vacant.
Then what did these men who have
been denouncing my personality these
simon pure followers of senator La
Toilette do them only eight of them
had the courage of their convictions.
The result was that while / was elect
I'd speaker by "a majority Of twenty six
last March thcy refused 90 turn me
)ut by a majority Of thirty-six.
''rhut WAS the way this republican
slough started out In its new alliance. I.
Ana The Sunday papers viii be out ia |
he morning with stories about the /
md Of Cannonism ana czarism and |
"a few of them viii say what j.
said about the house being simply
government by majority D
This combination abolished the 2
ommittec on rules. which has. after d
H. the power simply to report go the 3
rouse, although some seem to think r
/ is like the biblical example Of, Let
here be light ana there was light d
'ou in Washington know differently u
'ut the people in the country appar- e
ntlN believe the upiift magazines and ii
he coWardlN members of congress %
no wrought such havoc today. { ann T..
hankful ! belong To the party of Lin "a
Ou ana Grant and Garfield and D..
roosevelt and Tart. aud whenever ri
ny charge h. made upon a. whether n
rom pulpit or magazine ur Chautau- .
ua circle. ] viii defend it, ! would n
athcr keep the republican faith and ii
an than 10 march with men who -
'ould disrupt the republican party ~
nd succeed
The country believes we have "
uf forty -four in the house =
hereas we have none. nor have we "a 20
lajority ia the senate. But this news ''
not given 10 the country hy certain .'
lblicists. They suppress 10 and dis ''
,rt il and talk about Cannonism and
le defeat and rebuke of the ear to- ~
lN cf
Some of us pray tor the millennium. "
ut DO no; want It To come at amy re
me lnlcss The Almishty reaches ~
bwn his finger and changes the ! %
lman animal. rt