East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-03-21
SPEAKER CANNON
VOICES HIS IRE
BITTERLY SCORES WHAT HE
CALLS "HYBRID MAJORITY
"Uncle Joe" at Dinner of Illinois Re-
publican Club Gives Vent to the
Wal. Of the Defeated-Says Repub-
llcan Party Has No Majority.

Washlngton.-With his eyes glow
ing defiance and voice laundering at
his enemies with all the days pent up
bitterness, Speaker Cannon made
vitrolc attack on the hybrid house
majority" at the annual dinner Of
the Illinois Republican association
Saturday night
His face was worn from the force
OF the terrific assault made upon
him but his voice lacked none of its
old jauntiness and resonance. 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 God" he cried, with great So
lomnity, suppose this $50 pounds of
common clay should drop dead to-
night. what would the newspapers and
magazines. which make a profession
of lying and slandering do then? My
daughters, grand children, my son
in law, would be sorry. But the ball
ance of the world would not have time
to be sorry. There never was a truer
dead II that were not true, then
the world would be one vast house of
mourning
God Alone Majority.
Il know people who think they
monopolize the wires of the earth up
TO the great white throne They don't
give the majority OF us a chance. They
have cure-alls, they think God and
one constitute q majority, forgetting
that God alone is a majority and can
do without their help.
at is uncomfortable sometimes to
live in a government by the people.
There will always be some who are
feeble minded, abnormal. insane, or
to use a shorter and more common
word, are cranks. But we've got to
have them.
There was a new majority made
today. 1t consisted of the democrats
and 10 per cent slough from the re-
publican party. They destroyed the
committee on rules. Then what did
they do? A 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 then? Only eight Of them
had the courage OF their convictions
The result was that while | was elect
ed by a majority of 26 last Marcel
they refused to turn me out by ma
jority Of SO.
THAT was the way this republican
slough started out in its new alliance
And the Sunday papers will be ou
in the morning with stories about tn
end OF Cannonism and czarism, ant
perhaps a few of them will say wha
/ said about the house being simpl,
government by majority.
Says People Believe Magazines.
This combination abolished tn
committee on rules, which has afte
all the power simply to report to tn
house, although some seem to thinl
II is like the Biblical example of lie
there be light and there was light
You in Washington know differentl!
But the people in the country appar
emily believe the uplift magazines an
the cowardly members of congres
who wrought such havoc today. l al
thankful | belong to the party of Lir
coin and Grant, and Garfield an
Roosevelt and Taft, and whenever an
charge is made upon it, whether froi
the pulpit or from the magazine
chautauqua circle l will defend it.
would rather keep the republica
faith and fail than to march with me
who would disrupt the republica
party and succeed.
THE country believes we have
majority of A in the house, wherei
We have none, nor have we majo
ity in the senate. But this news
not given to the country by certa
publicists. They suppress it and di
tort it and talk only about Cannon
ism and the defeat ana rebuke of Il
czar today.
Some of us pray for the milleniui
But ! don't want it to come at al
time unless the Almighty reach
down his finger and changes the h
man ANIMAL"