Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-21
JUNGLE JOE" SAYS
He WILL TAKE STUMP
WILL MAKE SPEAKING TOUR OF
pANvlLLE DISTRICT AND WILL
THEN PLACE SERVICES AT DIS
PosAL OF COMMITTEE.

Kansas City, July 2O.-Speaker Can,
non closed his Kansas tour last night
and this morning left for st. Louis
from whence he will go to his home In
Danvi]le, Ill. He says that he will
spend two weeks campaigning in his
district before the September pri-
maries and expects to be nominated.
Later he will be at the service of tile
republican national congressional
committee. He. today expressed the
opinion that the attempt Of the In
surgent republicans to form new
party will fall fiat.
Cannon's Alma Speech.
Alma, Kas, July 20.-Speaker Can
non, on arriving here was escorted by
an automobile parade to the court
house where he delivered one of the
speeches Of his last day in the Kansas
primary campaign.
Speaker Cannon plunged at once
into an attack on insurgency.
He said: Whenever you hear a
man talking about how in congress he
is going to kick out Of the party
traces, telling how he is going to be a
refOrmer and straightenr ont things:
when you get fellow that talks like
that you want to watch him. L
II believe in organization, but when
see people proclaiming their own
wisdom and that they and God are the
majority, and that they won't work
with anybody else, when hear that
kind OF talk, sometimes think the in
sane asylums are not large enough.
I'm framing the tariff bill seven SEN
ators -Bristow, LaFollette, Clapp Bev-
eridge, and company, and twenty-three
representatives said, If you won't let
us say how this tariff shall be framed
we won't play the game. Now, who
were the czars? ?"
Speaker cannon's Repubicanisn1.
In his second speech at Harrington
yesterday afternoon Speaker Cannon
said:
81 am a republican-just plain,
simple republican. am not progress
sive nor an insurgent republican.
Whenever it is necessary to use an adj
jective to describe the republicans,
then, before God, I will leave the re-
publican party and climb a tree or
join the democrats
Speaker Cannon said he had been
against tariff revision but when the
republican platform endorsed it he
bowed to the majority. Discussing the
demand for revision he said:
THE Publishers association de
manded that the print paper schedule
be lowered, and Herman Ridder,
president of that association, told us
that IL we did not reduce that sched-
ule right away, on the eve of the pres
idential election they would pitch the
republican party, as / phrase it, into
hi, and they have been trying to do
1t ever since.
LaFoiIette Opposed Lower Duty.
"The Payne bill, as it passed the
house. reduced the duty on print pa
per from Sc to So a ton, but when the
bill got to the senate, the senators
from paper manufacturing states OBJ
iected and 1t was necessary to COM
promise. Even with LaFollette, that
flaming light from Wisconsin. was op-
posed to a reduction in the duty ana
said that Sc was not high enough to
protect Wisconsin and Pennsylvania,
and Senator Clapp of Minnesota, also
fought the 81 rate.
LaFollette, Bristow and Cummins
and their followers call themselves in
surgent republicans. They are trying
% lead you republicans from the party
81 Lincoln into the democratic party.
why don't these insurgent fellows do
like Foss, Of Massachusetts and openly
Join the democratic party? That's the
way they are headed, but they halt
on the way.
Murdoch Roasts Cannon.
Emporia, Kas., July 20.-Congress-
nan Victor Murdock, insurgent, fol-
lowing in the wake of Speaker. Can
non yesterday afternoon, defended the
tnsurgent cause and replied to
Speaker Cannon. saying:
Speaker Cannon for thirty years
1as been opposed to locomotion in any
direction. For over quarter of cen
tury he has stoow out against pro-
gress. He is not only a standpatter but
standstiller. During his political life
he has opposed about all of the pro-
gressive legislation that has been Of
Tered. and the wonder is that SO much
Of it has managed to creep into the
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