Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Some Men Forget.

'The people still rule he asserted.
but / know some men who would mo-
nopolize all of the wires leading up to the
great white throne, forgetting that 90.-
m000aoGapeople andsf3ed@ @aiways make e
majority-forgetting In fact, that God,
without the -90,OOO.O00, Is majority. I'm
der the Constitution and within the law
the ninety and nine must submit to the
will Of the majority"-and Uncle Joe
added by way of parenthesis, IF we are
not careful the ninety and nine will soon
get the needed one hundred, and we will
be the minority"
Mr.. Cannon deprecated the trend of the
''uplift'' magazines and newspapers in
their tendency to decry organization, and
he took occasion to declare that the poll
cies and the republican party, which,
after all. are the organization, have pro-
duced greater prosperity than this coun-
try has ever known before
From time to time we have contests,
the Speaker declared, and his reminis
cent air produced roar of laughter. We
have just had one" he continued. THE
country believes there is republican ma
jority OF forty-four In the House of Rep
resentatives. But there is not a repub-
lican majority in either the House or the
Senate, and not until the next election
will it be known whether we will again
Downfall of the Gear.
You will read in your Sunday news
papers varying stories about the down
fall of the czar and the overthrow of
Cannonism. and undoubtedly it will be
the subject of much lampooning and car
looming in the uplift publications. Just
suppose this 40 pounds of human clay
should drop dead. My God, what would
these hundreds of magazines do for their
uplift? Two daughters and the other
members of one small family might be
sorry for a few weeks or a few months,
but this busy country has not the time to
think long about it's dead
Mr.. Cannon did not long dwell in the
personal vein, and he struck again into
the peat of the things when he said:
But the republican majority of forty
four joins hands with the minority and
they will have it that the committee on
rules, as constituted, shall cease to exist.
They destroyed today this committee on
rules: said that the Speaker shall not
be a member of that committee. It may
work wel-time alone will tell whether
this new committee of ten will be a
good machine to report resolutions back
to the House. The newspapers will tell
you how a solid minority plus fifteen
slough from the majority spell the death
knell Of the old committee on rules and
declares il as the Will of the new ma
jority that the new committee on rules
ber.'
Taking still another tack Mr. Cannon
referred directly to the closing events of
the day on the floor of the House when
he said that the Speaker has the power
to declare the Office of the Speaker to be
vacant.
"One of the majority made a motion
today that the speakership be declared
vacant, he said. 1T came to vote
Eight of the dyed-in-t the-wool followers of
La Fellette and Cummns had the cour-
age to vote with their new bedfeloWs
When the present House was organized
/ was elected Speaker by majority of
twenty-six Acting on my own motion
today they refused to turn me out of the
office of Speaker by a majority of thirty
seven. But, after all. this is of no i'm
rortance in, the welfare of ninety mil
lions of people
Tribute to Keystone State.
Mr.. Cannon paid his respects to Penn
sylvania, the keystone state, and he char
acterized 1t as keystone in fact as we'll
as in name. .It is keystone in it's pol
icies, keystone in it's politics.. he de-
clared. 1.-THE republicans in the Penn
sylvania organization were solid in all of
the contests in the past few days. The
members of the House from Illinois were
also solidly for their party pledges; SO
far as they were republicans they voted
as republicans and far as they are
democrats they voted with the democrats
1 am proud to say that the men of
Illinois take their politics, like the Ken
tuckian takes his whisky-straight And
yet there are men, claiming to be re-
publicans. who are out on the highway
of populism actually trying to outrun
Bryan in Bryanism. God bless them
for as far as / am concerned, He alone
can bless them.
In closing, Speaker Cannon said he
could belong only to the party of Lincoln.
Garfield, Mckinley and Roosevelt, the
only party which has made it possible for
this country to bring forth its greatest
fruitfulness.
II would rather march under the re-
publican flag and policies and fail,'' he
said. than to march with the men who