Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-04-01
SPEAKER CANN0N'S
NOBLE STAND
Rather Keep Republican
Faith and Fail Than Dis
rupt Party. He Says

In his address before the lllinos Re-
publican association speaker Cannon
spoke frankly, freely and fcrcefully,
touching on the events of the day,
though he had previously said he would
not. Speaking of the contests of life,
he said
= 1--WE have lust had a contest to-day.
The public believes we have tforty-
republican majority in the house and
majority in the senate. We have MT a
real republican majority in either. To-
morrow some newspapers will tell the
truth about what occurred to-day. Some
will suppress the news. Stme will
speak of czarism and Cannonism. The
record stands, and whether or not we
have a majority in congress will perhaps
be demonstrated at 1.-The next election.
To- day they destroyed the rules COM
mittee and provided new committee on
rules with ten men. | hope it will
operate we'll, but it will depend upon
the membership and patriotism of the
ten composing that committee. The
Sunday papers tomorrow will say the
speaker said that this was government
by the majority and that when new
majority was formed TO-DAY the speaker
welcomed the resolution declaring the
office of speaker vacant.
I,eH-Co,te Cd COrroun
f.. "The resolution was offered and we
proceeded to elect new speaker OF
the men who had1 been denouncing the
speaker, of the genuine followers of La
Toilette and Cummins, there were only
eight who had the courage to vote with
their new allies, and the balance we're
too cowardly, and would rather explain
than tell the truth. want to say that
the speaker, who was elected last March
by twenty-six votes, after they had to-
day refused to turn him out on his own
inv itation, was elected over again by a
majority of tnirty-seven.
81 am proud of the state of Illinois,
God bless the Keystone state of Penn
sylvania. New York is first, Pennsyl-
vana second and Illinois third; | am
gratihed to tell you that while republi-
cans we're solid to-day for organization,
the state of Illinois, the state of Lin
coin, like the state of Pennsylvania,
stood solidly for organization. What
ever the metropolitan press and uplif
magazines may say, the state of Illinois,
like the Kentuckian takes his whiskey
takes its politics straight.
Rather Keep Republican Faith.
"Yet there are men claiming to be re.
publcans who are running along the
highways of populism trying to outrun
Bryan. | would rather belong to the
party of Lincoln and Grant and Garfield,
the party of Mckinley, of Roosevelt, OF
Taft-the party wEose policies have
substantially brought us to our great
prosperity, in spite of the charges made
from pulpit magazine, newspaper,
stump or Chautauqua; would rather
keep the republican faith, and march
under the republican flag advocating re-
publican policies and fail, rather than
march with the men who would disrupt
the republican party and succeed.
"There is not one who lives without
labor, mental or physical, but who adds
to the civilization and progress. Some
people are waiting for the millennium.
do not want it to come at any time I'M
less the Almighty reaches down his
hand and changes the human heart.
Then, there are those who would use al
the wires to the great white throne and
will not permit their neighbor to have
the use of single wire. Some people
think that they, with God. make 1
maj ority, forgetting that God is maio
rity in himself.
Raps Jpitt Magazines.
"Yet, any man has a right in thu
United States to be a crank or a re
former if he wishes to. Some claim
monopoly on all the knowledge yet tina
is their right. AS long as an individua
does not interfere with any one else hi
is within his rights, yet at times i
makes things uncomfortable. We are
satisfied with our country and there i
not one of us who would swap tn
United States of America for any count,
in the world 1t is q popular thin