The Cairo bulletin., 1910-07-17
INTENSE HEAT
AFFECTS CANNON
SUFFERED PARTIAL COLLAPSE
WHILE MAKING SPEECH AT
WINFIELD, kAS.
CONDITION NOT SERIOUS
Speaker Had Talked Nearly Two
Hours When Overcome--Ad.
dressed Audience From
chautauqua Platform.


Winfield, Kas., July l6.-Joseph G..
Cannon, speaker Of the house of rep.
resentatives, collapsed here this
afternoon on the Chautauqua plat
form after speaking an hour and
three-quarters. The intense heat af-
fected him and brought on a sudden
sinking spell Ice water and fresh air
thanked the audience for listening. to
him. Then he was led away by his
friends and taken to the home of j.
r. l.afferty, where he is guest. His
secretary declared shortly after that
the attack was not serious and that
the speaker planned an automobile
ride later in the evening.
During the greater part Of his
speech Cannon was notceably ar
fected His voice became weak, he
backed up against the table on the
platform, and, half seated continued
to talk His face assumed an un-
natural white pallor. He reached
back and took the ice from the
pitcher and placed it on hishead. His
head dropped to his chest,
Il cannot talk any longer" he al.
most gasped.
Friends rushed forward with a
chair and an electric fan was turned
on him and ice water procured, The
audience remained quiet. Finally
Uncle Joe" arose with his friends on
| cannot continue, but | have been
through three years of hard work and
Worry, and this intense heat has been
more than can stand thank you
and sank back,
A temperature of 105 deerees pre-.
vailed here today.
cannon's Speech.
In his address Mr.. Cannon defend
ed the tariff which he said had the
approval of President Taft Said he:
Take the tariff out of politics" is
ticed that this advice usually comes
from those who are opposed to the
protective tariff under which this
country has had it's greatest develop
ment. We have several times
thought we had the tariff out of poll,
tics by the demonstration of the sue
cess and the necessity for the protec.
tive tariff principle.
Referring to the house rules and
the changes made in them by the In
surgents and Democrats he said
We have had another season of hys-
terra over the rules, aboundng in
more ignorance than knowledge A
small percentage of the political ma
jority went over to the political
minority and created hybrid ma
jority to change the rules and create
new committee on rules In doing
this they admitted it was revolution
"a rather strange admission for a
majority of a law-making body--to
defy the law created for its control
while making laws for the people to
obey. If mob spirit is invoked in
making law, it is difficult to draw
the line against mob spirit to resist
laws made by such a body.
He spoke of conservation and
pointed out that the government had
withdrew 2o0,000.00O acres from set.
tlement as forest reserves and ex-
pended $5000000O in reclamation. On
the general development of the west
he spoke as follows
Year by year the economic policies
of the Republican party or, to put II
in another way, under the economic
policies Of majority of the people
of the republic, constituting, as they
do, the Republican party. we have be-
come the greatest producing nation