New-York tribune., 1910-07-20
CANNON "STAND-STiLLER"
Worse Than Stand Patter, y
Saws Victor Murdock.

Fn7poria Kan july 19.-"Speaker Cannon
Is not only a stand tier but a stand
stiller.'" Congressman Victor Murdock, the
Kansas insurgent. said to-day. Following
I'm the wake of Speaker Cannon, he de-
Tended the insurgent cause in his first
political speech of the campaign and re-
piled to the Speakers charges made here
yesterday.
He said Mr. Cannon for thirty years has
been opposed to locomotion in any direc-
tion," charged him with affiliations with
Tammany Hall and asserted the greatest
thing the insurgents accomplished in the
last session of Congress was to put the
Speaker off the Committee on Rules. He
went on:
j did nor intend to get into this campaign.
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 j could not conscientiously Keep
out Of the fight
Speaker Cannon for thirty years has been
opposed TO locomotion in any direction.
For more than a quarter of a century he
has stood out against progress. He is not
only a "stand-pat tier but "stand-stiller." "
During his political life ne has opposed
about all the progressive legislation that
has been offered and the wonder is that so
much OF IT has managed to creep into the
statute book.
meats; he stood opposed 10 irrigation, to
currency reform. 10 pure food laws and
regulations, 10 Civil Service reform and to
practically all progressive legislation since
the Civil War.
Now, listen TO me. / want to tell you
something that Cannon did not mention in
his speech yesterday. While posing as
partisan, as an ardent advocate of party
feelty, he has played in the dark with
Tammany. He did not hesitate TO rejoice
when his boon companion, Borimer, of IL
linois, was elected 10 the United States
Senate by coalition with the Democrats
and by deal that was rotten to the core
a deal that has made a stencil in the nos
trilS of the ma ton
Cannon has thoroughly poisoned the
springs of representa- tive government for
thirty years He has helped to block the
way to light and freedom
Look at your Speaker. my friends, STAND
with me and with your own gasping Con-
gressman in line as your Speaker comes
from his private room. Yes; there he goes,
and beside him. eibowing with the Speaker,
urer of gloves in the United States. That
and more-the mouthpiece and representa-
tive of what? OF Tammany.
All night on March II light burned
in Cannon's office. ! know for was up
watching il from a cubbyhoie of my own
that night. and Lucus Littauer was tele-
phoning. IIdo not know to whom he was
talking But ! do know what happened,
and do knew that Herbert Parsons. chair
man of the County Republican Central
Committee of New York, publicly charged
in a statement that bargain was made
with Tammany, with the Democrats OF
Tsfnmany. for their votes to save Cannon.
The next day came the fight. March 10.
The old rules were voted down; and sud
DERBY, 10 the astonishment OF the regulars.
ocnized Fitzgerald, Tammany Democrat.
who made @ motion 10 stop the tide against
Cannon And | sat where 7 could hear
Dalzeil of Pennsylvania. turn to the panic
Your vote is ave and IL was aye
There have been corrupt votes IN the