The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-20
Congressman MurdOck, Kansas
Insurgent, ROasts Speaker
With Singing Speech.
CALLS HIM OPPONENT
OF ALL PROGRESS
Says He Is in League With Tam,
many and Recites Some
Political History.

BMPORIA, Kan. July 19.-Congress-
man Victor Murdock Kansas insurgent
In the house OF Representatives. follow
ing the wake OF Cannon, today defended
the insurgent cause in his first political
speech of the campaign here. and replied
TO the speakers charges made here yes
terday. He declared that Mr.. Cannon
"for thirty years has been opposed to To-
comotion in any direction" charged him
with affiliation with Tammany hall and
declared the greatest thing the insur-
gents accomplished in the last session
OF congress was to put the speaker of
the committee on rules.
II did not intend to get into this CAM
paign," he said. Il have no opposition
in my own district and thought l would
keep out OF the contest but when Joseph
G. Cannon came into the state to speak
against the things nearest my heart, l
could not conscientiously keep out of the
fight
Speaker Cannon for thirty years has
been opposed to locomotion in any direc-
tion. For over q quarter OF q century
only stand -patter, but a stand -stiller,
During his political life he has opposed
about all the progressive legislation that
has ever been offered, and the wonder Is
that so much OF II has managed to creep
into the statute books,
The Great opposer.
"Hc opposed the federal inspection OF
meats: he stood opposed to irrigation. to
currency reform. to pure food laws and
regulations to civil service reform and to
practically all legislation since the civil
war.
Now listen TO me- 1 want to tell you
something that Cannon did not mention
in his speech yesterday. While posing
party fealty, I've has played in tho dark
with Tammany. He did not hesitate TO
rejoice when his boon compan ion. Lori
mer Of Illinois WAS elected to the United
Democrats and by q deal that Yves rotten
to the core, that has made a stencil in
the nostrils of the nation,
Cannon has thoroughly poisoned tho
springs Of representative government for
thirty years He has helped to block the
way TO light and freedom.
His Personal Interests.
Speaker Cannon was Interested in just
two things In the tariff bill,-the protec-
ton of petroleum and Its products and
insurgents offered an amendment reduc-
Ing the tariff on petroleum, Cannon loft
his chair and ragged over the floor of the
house like a wild man. He said the
Then is when the insurgents became rev
olutionists We appealed from the de-
aision OF the chair and we won our fight.
big hand came down out Of the blue
sky and smashed Cannon. the glove
schedule. the petroleum schedule and all.
and that hand was William n. Tafts.
THE greatest thing the insurgents have
done" continued the speaker. has been
to put Cannon off the committee on rules,
II Is no longer necessary for members of
tho committee TO get down on their mar
row bones before the chairman for fear
OF adverse report TO the speaker. The
Insurgents not only wish to take the
power away from Speaker Cannon. but
from all future speakers. The bulwark OF
the speakers power Is his authority TO
appoint the committees, We want to
take that away from him, II will then
be impossible for him either to reward
or punish members
Severe Arraignment.
Continuing Mr.. Murdook said.
pretending to stand before the coun-
try q simple man fayoring low expend-
lures he In reality has promoted loot
and plunder without stint II 1t would re-
ward his henchmen or serve n factional
end, pretending to Democratic sympa-
thy and making a display OF homely Ian
Guage and meanest manner he has been
the bulwarb Of every plot and oabal Of