Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-03-24
7itriolic Attack Made by Angry
Speaker on the Hybrid
House Majority
INCLUDES THE LYING" PRESS
Thankful He. Belongs to the Par
ty of Lincoln, Grant, Gar
field, Roosevelt and
Taft.

Washington, March co--with eyes glow
Ing defiance and voice laundering at his
enemies with all the days pcnt up bitter
ness Speaker Cannon mace vttrioiic
attack on the hybrid House majority"
at the annual dinner Of the Illinois Re-
publican association late last night.
His face was worn from the force of
tho terrific assault made upon him and
his voice lacked Its old jauntlness. He
was Uncle Joe" In fighting trim.
MY Cod" he cried suppose this las
pounds of common clay should drop dead
tonight. what would the newspapers and
magazines which make a profession Of
lying ard sianderins do then? My daugh-
tcrs grandchildren, my son-in-law would
be sorry But the balance OF the world
would not have time to be sorry There
never WAS a truer word said than let the
dead burr its dead If that were not
true. then tho world would be one vast
house OF mourning.
Il know people who think they mon
opolize the wires from the earth up to
the grea: white throne. They don't give
the majority OF us Il chance. They have
e-ire-alls they think God and one con-
stitute . majority, forgetting that God
alone is a majority and can well do with
out their help.
I'VE are thankful for Christian NOR
Atty. Once in a while we find people
who have a monopoly Of all knowledge
and therefore should he indicted and
prosecuted under the Sherman antitrust
law. All who disagree with them are
anathema-
1T is uncomfortable sometimes to live
S~,, he rIn
will always be some who are feeble
minded abnormal. insane or, to use a
shorter and more common word. they
are cranks. But we have got to have
them.
There was new majority made to-
day 1t consisted OF the democrats and a
Is per cent. slough from the Republican
party They destroyed the committee OF
rules. Then what did they do? A resolu
ton was presented declaring the Office
of speaker vacant. Then what did these
men who have been denouncing m!
personality, these simon pure follower:
of Cumnins and LaFollette. do then
Only eight of them had the courage o
their convictions. The result was that
while was elected speaker by major,,
OF % last March. they refused 10 turf
me out by a majority OF 81.
That was the way this republican
slough started out in its new alliance
And the Sunday papers will be out in TIL
morning with stories about the end O
Cannonism and czarism and perhaps
few Of them will say what I said abou
the House being simply a government b,
majority.
This combination abolished the com
mittee on rules, which has after all sim
ply the power to report to the House
although some seem to think that 1t 1
like the Biblical example of let Their
he lighg and there was light You Il
Washington know differently. But tn
people In tho country apparently be
lieve the uplft magazines and the COW
ardly members Of Congress who wrough
such havoc to-day
Many so-called republicans are II
fact populists and are trying to outdt
Bryanism.
IT am thankful / belong to the party
Of lincoln. and Grant and GARFIELD, ant
Roosevelt and Taft. and whenever any
charge Is made upon It. whether from
pulpit or magaxine .or Chautauqua cir
cult. will defend It, would rather
keep the republican faith and fail thar
to march with men who would disrup
tho Republican party and succeed.
THE country believes we have
majority OF a. In the House, wherea,
We have none, nor have we a ma or
ity in the Senate. but this news Is no
given to the country by certain pub
licists. They suppress IL and distor
II, and talk only about Cannonism ant
the defeat and rebuke Of the car to
day.