Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-19
Kansas Senator Says Can
non Tries to Deceive
as to Rubber.
SOFT KIND is SCARCE
New Tariff Act Helps Trust
Uncle Joe ReiterateS He
Will Not Quit Seat.

Topeka, Kan, July 19~Speaker
Cannon got up at 1880 this morning
and at 9:25 left for Alma, where he is
scheduled to speak before noon. The
speaker will follow his Alma speech
with speech at Herington this after
noon and then 60 to Marion, where he
speaks tonight.
Called Poor Judge.
Topeka, Kan, July 19.-Senator
Joseph Y. Bristow, "insurgent," in a
speech here this afternoon. pro-
nounced Speaker Cannon a poor
Judge of rubber. Cannon at Buling-
anne yesterday replying to a former
speech of Bristow's. said the sena-
tor had either ''wilfully or knowing
ly or ignorantly" misrepresented the
facts when he said the increased duty
on manufactured rubber had resulted
in a lamentable decrease in importa-
tions of that commodity. The sena-
tor, Cannon said, liked to brand ev-
erybody who disagreed with him as
dishonest and that these remarks on
rubber gave him a chance to accuse
Aldrich Of being a member of the
rubber trust.
Referred to Hard Variety.
Cannon" said Bristow this after
noon, "forgets there is rubber and
rubber. When he says the increased
duties on manufactured rubber did
not result in a decrease in importa-
ton he appeared to refer only to
hard rubber, the kind that is some
times used in making rules. Let the
speaker look up the rubber question
and he will find there are several
kinds of elastic or soft rubber to
which my statements apply exactly.
Facts Were Given.
'T am told Speaker Cannon said he
did not know Aldrich organized a
trust In my Winfield address I set
forth the facts as contained in official
documents, in Poor's Manual and in
the Wall Street Journal, which are
considered reliable authorities for
every business man i'm this country.
Whether or not Aldrich is guilty Of
technical violations of the statutes I
do not know. II is the duty of the az
torney general Of the United States
10 investigate violations OF the Sher-
that he is guilty of a violation OF po-
litical decency and of political honesty.
stood by House Bill.
ut would have been better taste
for Speaker Cannon to demand that
his committee of representatives stand
by the house tariff schedule than TO
ask them to stand for the Aldrich
schedule. And then that Cannon
should come to Kansas to defend the
tariff bill and men who dictated its
passage,"
MurdOck on Trail
Emporia. Kan, July 19.-Representa-
tive Murdock, in an address here this
afternoon. vigorously attacked Speaker
Cannon and declared the fight OF the
insurgents" fin congress had only just
begun. Murdock will follow Cannon's
route closely, speaking at Burlingame
tonight.
VIII stay I'm Race.
Emporia. Kan, July 19.-Uncle Joe
Cannon will not take himself out OF
the race for the speakership of the
next house of representatives. This
he made plain near the conclusion Of
his speech in Emporia yesterday after
noon He said he would abide by the
will of the republican caucus If the
republicans control The next congress,
but that no undertaking magazines"
could make him say he would not be
candidate. In other words, he said he
would not make an effort to win the
speakership. yet the emphasis with
which he spoke made IT plain that If
the republican caucus should nominate
him he would be willing to serve.
Speaker Cannon's remarks on the
speakership were made just before he
left the platform to catch a train for
Burlingame. where last night he made
his third political speech in the Kan
sas primary campaign.
In Fight 10 Finish.
Speaker Cannon's utterances on the
speakership follow verbatim:
IL am speaker, and on March next.
1 will have been speaker for eight
years, a longer continuous term than
any man ever served as speaker since
the foundation of the government.
There has been only one man who has
had a longer service as speaker than
have had and there was an interim OF
four years I'm his service. That was
Henry Clay, who in the aggregate serv-
ed 10 years as speaker. Somebody has
got to be the scapegoat through maga-