The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-04
PAGE FOURTEEN
Calico Charlie Adopts the HardWick
Tactics
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ELEVEN

qriU qire q hundred dollars for the affidavit.
When Miss Claire Ellington, of Thomson,
was in Washington City some time ago. her
uncle. Claude Bennett, asked her how | found
out about it. Edwards himself will never
swear that he didn't pay for such a speech
and circulate it, in violation of law, as
speech delivered in Congress, (when IN fact,
it had never even been read there,) until he
has made sure that the gentleman aCho acrote
me the letter acW not appear AGAINST hano as q
qUatness.
He was not charged with voting for Speak
er Cannon nor for the Infamous new Tariff
Bill. Cannon was the regular caucus nominee
of the Republicans, and the Insurgents had
to vote for him. All the Insurgents are Re
publicans, and as the Tariff Bill was party
measure, most of them felt it to be their duty
to vote for it. Consequently, the Repubh-
cans were not needing any Democratic votes
on either one of those issues.
The vital question was qrh0t kind Of rules
should the House qrorh mder? Should the
House of Representatives be a self-contro-
ling body, where elaboration is free, and
where every measure should stand or tall
upon it's own merits! Or, should 1t continue
to be despoticallv dominated under the old
rules, by the Triumvirate of Cannon, Payne,
and Dalzell? No Democrat, however treach
erous at heart, dared to vote for those old
rules, but after the Cannon rules were voted
down. two terrible crimes were committed
against the people. When Champ Clark, the
Democratic leader, proposed to make the
House of Representatives a governing
body, Charles Edwards and Gordon Lee
voted for the proposition. Mr.. Clark proposed
that the House should elect committee of
fifteen, and that this committee should elect
it's own chairman. Clark's proposition would
have been complete overthrow of Cannon
ISM Before the next vote was taken, there
was considerable interval, during aohich
Lon LiUinqst0n aUe1t to Cannon and SAID:
'Joe Pee got you taoo more Georgia votes for
the neat ballot" To which Cannon replied,
"Thot's good, Lon.''
The next ballot was on the Fitzgerald
proposition, which you'll find on page of the
Congressional Record for March Is, 1909
The Fitzgerald Resolutions did not materially
impair the despotism of Cannon, for they did
not materially change the old rules and they
left the Cannon Committee of Three in full
control. Consequently, Cannon and all the
Republicans supported the Fitzgerald Reso-
buttons, as the plank achich saved them from
droacning The vote will be found on page 10
of the Congressional Record for March Is,
1909. Without the old rules as the Fitzgerald
Amendments left them, and without the des-
potic power of the Committee of Three, it
would have been impossible for the stand
pat Republicans to Jam that new Tariff Law
through Congress- In his Kansas City
speech, Cannon himself made that very state
ment, and the statement received the official
o. K. achen, arithout objection, its pubAca-
ton qcas ordered By Congress-
Don't you remember how often these De-
serters were challenged to arise in their places
in Congress and deny Cannon's statement?