The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1910-07-29
SPEAKER CANNON ILL
COLLAPSED WHILE MAKING AN
Address in KANSAS.
At Winfield, Kansas, Chautauqua Sat
urday Afternoon, but Recovered
Physicians Urged Him to Abandon
His Speaking Tour, but Not for Him.
He Goes On

gresham Philip eumpbeh45T eHd declar-
ing he was "not a bit sick,' Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon Of the house Of rep
reseytatiycF$rwho collapsed while deliv-
ering an address before the Winfield
Chautauqua Saturday afternoon, lett
here for Arkansas City. The speaker
had recovered from his collapse and IN
sisted upon making the trip.
: Sneaker Cannon's physicians urged
him TO abandon his Kansas speaking
tour, but the speaker seems determined
10 continue it. Mr.. Cannon feels that
the collapse was due to the excessively
warm weather, temperature lO5, Whicn
he was not used to.
Speaker Cannon appeared tired When
he arrived here. His all night rld from
Kansas City and the excitement incl
dent to his debate with Clifford PInchot
before the Knife and Fork club at Kan
sas. City the night before, together with
the hot weather here, seemed to IN
nerve him. The speaker seemed to
realize he was in "the enemy's coun
try.U While the audience was not
hostile, it certainly was not friendly,
and this made "Uncle Joe's' task
more difficult.
Almost from the beginning he
abandoned his manuscript and spoke
on the development of constitutional
government. After an hour and three
quarters he took up the Payne tarlh
bill. He had spoken but a few words
Mandatory Of it when he grew pale.
lie reached back and took the ice
from a pitcher and placed it on his
head. His head dropped to his chest.
az can not talk longer he almost
gasped. "There are many more things
/ should like to have said, but l can
not. 1 am overcome with the heat.
Friends rushed forward with a chair
and an electric fan was turned on him,
water and ice were procured and the
platform was cleared of the curious.
The audience remained intensely quiet.
Finally ''Uncle Joe" arose with a
friend on either side and said:
az am sorry L can not continue, but
| have been through three years OF
hard work and worry and this intense
heat has been more than l can stand.
- sank back.
Summary of His Speech.
"Discontent of a population, :" Speak
er Cannon in his address at the Chau-
. tauqua association said, els not meas
ured by complaints in the press. 1t
is measured in a more significant mar
ner and makes a more indelible impress
sion than that Of a penny paper bought
perused, thrown away and forgotten
"'The pocket nerve is one of the
most sensitive nerves in our clvlllZa
ton and that nerve is always the first
affected by any general discomfort OF
want of confidence. ] have seen NJ
evidence Of weakness in the 'pocke'
nerve out here in Kansas, where yol
are reyeling in high prices for farm
products and showing no sympathy TO
those in the east who complain abou
the high prices of beef and pork, o
wheat and corn.
CT have seen no evidence of attacI
of. the pocket nerve anywhere in tn
west, where business is moving wit
= a high speed rarely seen.'
Speaker Cannon declared the opp'
nents of protection had misrepresente
the tariff lied about its, schedules, an
resorted to every conceivable trick
keep the tariff in place.
1.-THE d~emagogue,' he said, Una
pick out an item here and there an
saw that duties are too high; but tn
law is to be tested by all its prov
.siOns apd not by an isolated item hel
and there
The speaker referred to the unsu
c6ssfll opposition to Representative
Smith and Kennedy in the Iowa pr
maries recently, and continued; IN
Information is that in Kansas Senate
RyIstow with his allies, Govern'
.sstubbs, Representative Murdoch an
others. is opposing the renominatio
of Representatives Campbell, Anthem
CaIderhead and Reeder, for the re
son. that these representatives vote
for the tariff bill and co-operated WI
: their republican brethren in the houi
at Washington.
Government by the People.
"This is a government by the pc
nile. but in order to govern 1T
necessary, with a population of 9
0 600, that those who substantial
agree. touching economic and 9th
policies, should cooperate and tho
can only cooperate through organic
tion.'J said Mr.. Cannon.
Speaking of Representative MurdoI
of Kansas, Mr.. Cannon said: "Tl
speeial rule for the consideration
the postal savings bank bill was a
voeated by Mr.. Murdoch and 9th
gentlemen, who, in the past, cor
Claimed of special rules. And NJ
Murdoch in his vote on June 7, l9l
condemned all his previous actor