Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-22
ARE INcENsED
OVER cANNoN's SPEECH
Speaker Grows vitrioIio in Defeat and
Scores Men Who Encompassed His
DownfalI-carefuI Handling of Sit
uation Only Means of Starting War
fare More Bitter Than Ever.


tipn of the speakers power in the COM
mittee on rules and the determination
by the house to reconstruct that COM
mittee, yet leaving Mr.. Cannon the
speakership itself, may have marked
not so much the ending of a short
battle as the beginning of a great po-
litical war The recognition by all
factions of this possibility is the prin-
cipal feature of the political situation
in Washington.
Hardly anybody here thinks that the
condition of affairs after the mo-
mentous battle represents any satisfac-
tory conclusion. The speaker and his
friends appear to interpret the re-
fusal of the house to depose him as
justifying them in claiming to have
wrested victory from defeat, indorse-
ment from reputation. Not a few Of
the insurgents who voted for Mr.. Can
mons retention are wondering today IL
they made political blunder, whether
their anti Cannon constituents will not
indeed hold their retaining him in the
speakerShip to have nullitied their vote
to eliminate him from the rules COM
mittee.
The republican regulars complacent-
ly claim that the insurgents who voted
for the speaker have returned to the
party fold. The democrats taunt these
| insurgents with having been recreant
to the logic of their insurgency. No
body seems entirely happy about the
outcome. Even IN the senate, the reg
ulars are apprehensive lest the insur-
gent conflagration may be about to
spread to that house, the insurgent
senators are wondering whether they
have made the most of their oppor-
tunities.
insurgents Are Bitter.
Speaker Cannon's defiant speech
Saturday night before the Illinois Re-
publican Association, in which he con-
temptuously denounced the insurgent
members OF the house who stood by
him in the final test, as "cowardly
m embers of congress without the cour-
age Of their convictions" has cut to
the quick those men who responded
with their votes to what they say they
| believed to be their duty to the party
and to the country and saved him from
utter humiliatl7r.
! Today the feeling among these insur-
gents is one 81. bitterest resentment
! over the attitud4 assumed toward them.
! IF this is to be the manner OF our
treatment for saving the republican
party" said one Of them who refused
| to allow his name to be used, this bat
! tie just ended will be followed by an
| other beside which the first one would
be but a skirmish.
/ IL can speak for no one but myself,
but il this is to be our reception, am
| done. We were not towards. We OF
the insurgents who cast our votes
/ against unseating Cannon were
| the bravest men in that house. 1t took
| cunsummate courage, and 1t probably
! will cost me my seat in congress. But
! if we are to be met with calumny be-
cause we sacrificed ourselves to save
| the house of representatives from
chaos and disorder and to prevent the
ruin of the republican party, then !
am in favor of carrying this war to the
| finish"
Others Are Indignant.
This member said he had talked with
one or two others of the insurgent
! leaders who voted to save Cannon and
they were in similar frame Of mind.
when I read in the papers this
morning the speech which Speaker
Cannon delivered before the Illinois
association. my blood boiled with in
dignation," said the insurgent,
| The portion Of the speakers speech
| which has thus enraged the insurgents
who saved him the speakership is as
follows:
"There was new majority made
| today. 1t consisted of the democrats
and a Is per cent slough from the re-
publican party. They destroyed the
committee on rules. Then what dlo
they do? A resolution was presented
declaring the office of speaker vacant.
Then what did these men who have
been denouncing my personality, these
simon-pure followers Of Cummins ana
ILaFollette do then? Only eight of them
had the courage of their convictions.
The result was that, while I was
elected speaker by majority of TWEEN
ty-six last March, they refused to turn
me out by a majority Of thirty-six.
'sThis combination abolished the
committee on rules, which has, after
all, simply the power to report to the
house. aItho some seem to think that
it is like the biblical example of Let
there he light and there was light You
in Washington know differently. But
the people in the country apparently
believe the uplift magazines and the
cowardly members of congress who
wrought such havoc yesterday. They
said the speaker should not be menu
Der of the committee on rules, which
they made over into q committee OF
ten. Much depends upon the makeup
Of the committee.
| May God bless and keep these men
for SO far as am concerned. He only
can bless them. Many so-called re-
l publicans are, in fact, populists. and
are trying to Guido Organism"
There has not yet been called any
meeting of the insurgents to consider
what their future course shall be, but
undoubtedly one will be held within a
day or two.
Committee May Cause Clash.
The next conflict will come. 1t tt
comes, on the selection OF the new rules
committee proyided for in the Norris
resolution. The committee 10 to be
elected by the house, instead of being
appointed by the speaker. - hitherto
Neither the regular republicans nor
the democrats have az yet made any
arrangements for. party caucus. but
ipota es.uetses viii ~. sc bald within the
next three or four days.