Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-19
CANNON, DEFIANT,
REFUSES TO QUIT
SPEAKERSHIP RACE
Aged Leader, in Typical Speech,
Says Enemies Can't Prevent
Him Being Candidate
DEPENDS ON PARTY CAUCUS
DenounCeS Insurgents and Says
He Will Again Weld GaveI
if Given a Chance
DEPENDS ON PARTY CAUCUS
Associated Press1

BURLINGAME, Kas., July 49,
Joseph G. Cannon will not abandon the
race for speakership in the next house
Of representatives. This he made
plain at the conclusion of his speech at
Emporia, Kas., this afternoon. He said
he would abide by the will of the Re-
publican caucus If the Republicans
control the next house, but that no
undertaking magazines" could make
him say he would not be a 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 at Emporia to catch
train for Burlingame, where tonight
he makes his third political speech in
the Kansas primary campaign.
Speaker Cannon's utterances on the
speakership follow verbatim:
Il am speaker, and in March next
will have been speaker for eight years,
longer continuous term than any
man ever served as speaker since the
foundation of the government. There
was only one man who has had a
longer servicea s speaker than have
had, and there was an interim of four
years in his service. That was Henry
Clay who in the aggregate served ten
years as speaker.
Somebody has got to be the scape-
goat through magazines and letters.
Candidates for congress are asked:
| Will you pledge yourself not to vote
for that old czar for speakers?
STANDS PAT ON REGULARITY
"On, the scapegoat. This little 154
pounds of clay cannot bear many sins
off into the wilderness. If my con-
stituency is as kind to him as it has
| been for thirty-six years, l will go back
| if God spares my life, and be in the
next congress, either in the majority or
| in the minority, and 1 would rather be
| there in Republican minority, a real
virile Republican minority than to be
| one of any apparent majority that
| could not take account of stock and
| know from one day to another whether
it was the majority or the minority.
'They wanted me to pledge that I
would not be a candidate for speaker
if the Republicans have a majority
of the next house. They will meet in
caucus and select candidate for
| speaker. l will be in that caucus and
| l will vote for the man caucus selects.
| know of no crime 1 have committed
that should bar me from entering a
Republican caucus. If you ask whether
I want to be speaker of the house
longer than for eight years, have
been speaker that long because my
| friends thought that 1 could be most
| useful as a member of congress in
that position. But as long as God
let's me live the undertaking periodi-
Gals and the so-called independent or
progressive Republicans shall not make
me say that I will not be a candidate
for speaker any more than they shall
make me say, If am again elected
to congress, that will not vote when
| my name is called"
| At the meeting here tonight Speaker
Cannon showed no sign of weariness
despite the warmth of the tent in which
he spoke. He confined his remarks
largely to the tariff. After the meet
| ing here he went by motor to Topeka.
| twenty-eight miles distant, where he
will remain until tomorrow morning.
He will speak at Alma tomorrow fore
noon, at Herington in the afternoon,
and at night will close his Kansas tour,
with a speech at Marion.