Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-21
JUNGLE JOE 0USTED FROM RULES
COMMITTEE BUT IS STILL SPEAKER.
Insurgents and Democrats Down Him 1871 to
l55===He Is Then Retained by Same Vote.
JUNGLE JOE" TALKS.

Washington. March 20.--With eyes
glowing with defiance and voice thumb
ering at his enemies. with all the days
pent-up bitterness, Speaker Cannon
made a vitriolic attack on the Hybrid
Humji" at the annual dinner of the
Illinois Republican Association last
night.
His face was worn from the force
of the terrific assault made upon him
and his voice lacked the old jauntiness
and resonance. He was "Uncle Joe"
in fighting trim.
A statement made by the defiant
Spea lcr was that the Republicans no
longer. have> a majority in the House.
my Cod" he cried with great
s3lemnity, "spcse this 15S pounds of
common clay should droy dead to-
night, what would the newspapers and
magazines which make profession or
lying and slandering do then? Ny
daughters. grandchildren my son-in-
law would be sorry. But the balance
Of the world would not have time to
he sorry. There never was 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.
Il kuoW rcop.e who think they
monopolize the wires from the earth
! 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 a majority. forgetting that
God alone is majority and can well
do without their help.
I'VE are thankful for Christian
morality. Once in a while we find peo-
pie who have monopoly of all knowl-
edge and therefore should be indicted
and prosecuted under the Sherman
antitrust law. All who disagree with
them are anathema,
1T 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,
they are cranks. But we've got to
have them.
There was new majority today 1t
consisted of the Democrats, Is per
cent slough from the Republican par
ty. They destroyed the committee on
tiNS' 4 hti "iiit ulu luCy w. ~
resolution was presented declaring the
office OF Speaker vacant Then what
did these men who have been de-
nouncing my personality, thus Simon
pure followers of Cummins and La
Toilette. do then? Only eight of them
had the courage of their convictions.
The result was that. while I was elect
ed Speaker by a majority of 26 last
March, they refused to turn me out by
a majority of SO.
THAT was the way this Republican
slough started out in it's new alliance.
And the Sunday papers will be out in
the morning with stories about the
end of Cannonism and czarism, and
perhaps few of them will say what
said about the House being simply a
government by majority"
This combination abolished the
committee on rules, which has, after
all simply the power to report to the
House, although some seem to think
that it is like the Biblical example OF
Let there be light and there was
light You in Washington known diff
ferently. But the people in the coun-
try apparently believe the upllft maya
zines and the cowardly members of
Congress who wrought such havoc to-
day. / am thankful belong to the
party of Lincoln, and Grant and Gar
field, and Roosevelt and Taft, and
whenever any charge is made upon 1t.
whether from pulpit or magazine or
Chautauqua circuit, will defend It.
would rather keep the Republican
faith and fail than to march with men
tv.f No fAoxY
party and succeed.
1.-THE country believes we have a
majority of "A in the House, whereas
we have none; nor have we a majority
in the Senate But this news Is not
given to the country by certain pub
licists. They suppress 1t and distort
1t and talk only OF Cannonism and the
defeat and rebuke of the czar today.
Some of US pray for the millennium.
But / do not want 1t to come at any
time unless the Almighty reaches
down his finger and changes the hu-
man animal"