The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-03-25
SPEAKER CANNON TALKS
ON EVENTS OF DAY

w dSuIuSCOu, MATCH WITH eyes
glowing defiance and voice laundering
at his enemies with all the days pent-
up bitterness, Speaker Cannon made a
vitriolic attack on the hybrid house
majority" at the Illinois Republican
Association Saturday night.
A startling statement made by the
powers horn, but defiant, speaker, was
that the Republicans no longer have a
majority in the senate.
my Cod" he cried with great SOL
emnity, suppose this 150-pounds of
common clay should drop dead tonight,
what would the newspapers and mag
azines, which make profession. of
lying and slandering, do then? My
daughters, 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 bury it's
dead If that were not true, then the
world would be one vast House of
Mourning.
II know people who think they mon
opolize the wires of the earth up to the
Great White Throne. They don't give
the majority of us a chance. They
have cure-alls; they think God and
one, constitute majority, forgetting
that God alone is a majority and can
do witout their help.
1T is uncomfortable sometimes to
live in government by the people.
There will always be some who are
feeble-minded, abnormal, insane, or, to
use shorter and more common word,
are cranks. But we've got to have
them.
There was a new majority made to-
day. 1t consisted of the Democrats
and Is per cent. slough from the Re-
publican party. They destroyed the
committee on rules. Then what did
they do? A resolution was pres ented
declaring the Office of speaker vacant.
Then what did these men who have
been denouncing my personality, these
simOn-pure followers of Senator La
Toilette, do then? Only eight of them
had the courage of their convictions.
Republican "sIough" Described.
"The result was, that while I was
elected speaker by majority of 26
last March, they refused to turn me
out Dy a majority or 81.
THAT was the way this Republican
slough started out in it's new alliance.
And the Sunday papers will be out in
the morning with stories about the end
OF CannOnism and czarism, and per-
haps a few of them will say what 1
said about the house being simply a
government by majority.
Would Keep Faith With Party.
"This combination abolished the
committee on rules, which has, after
all, the power simply to report to the
house, although some seem to think
it is like the Biblical example of let
there be light, and there was light
You in Washington know differently.
But the people in the country appar-
emily believe the uplift magazines and
the cowardly members of congress who
wrought havoc today.
Il am thankful I belong to the party
of Lincoln and Grant and Garfield
and Roosevelt and Taft, and when
ever any charge is made upon it,
whether from pulpit or magazine or
Chautauqua circle, I will defend it. I
would rather keep the Republican faith
and fail, than to march with men who
would disrupt the Republican party
and succeed
Republican Majority? None!
The country believes we have a
majority of forty-four in the house.
whereas We have none; nor have we
majority in the senate. But this
news is not given to the country by
certain publicists. They suppress it
and distort it and talk only about Can
nonism and the defeat and rebuke of
the car today.
Some of us pray for the millennium.
But / don't want it to come at my
time unless the Almighty reaches
down His finger and changes the hui
man animal"