The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
"IJncle Joe" ROasts Insurgents
and Says He Expects to Be
Speaker Again.
DOES NOT BELIEVE TAFT
INTENDS TO DITCH HIM
SAYS Stories of Republican
Shakeup We're COncocted by
the Insurgents.

cuICAGO Aug 15.-The lnter-Ocesn
,o,,,o,royv morning will print an inter-
yieu with Joseph G. Cannon speaker OF
rho house OF representatives., In which
he denounces insurgents, says he VIII be
= candidate for the speakership OF the
next house and declares that reports Of
q contemplated reorganization Of the Re-
publican party originated with insurgents
and Democrats.
Referring to the dispatches from BeV-
erly. Mr.. Cannon said:
II don't believe Mr. Taft contemplates
any such action. The president is not
Ing whlm OF a minority. The story that
Senators Aldrich and Hale and myself
were to be thrown out ot tne ne parry wiz
be found when traced to Its source, TO
have originated with some OF the In
surgents' Democrat allies whose wishes
are father to the thought
Expected Reelection
II expect 10 be reelected TO congress
1 Will be candidate for speaker. but
always subject TO the win OF the people;
II ann beaten in the , caucus; Ii;, WI which h,
my place In the ranks:
! Answering the question, "WN you be
a candidate for reelection as speaker for
| the next housel' Mr.. Cannon made this
statement:
81 have been asked that question fire.
qucntly and especially by our Democratic
| friends and their practical allies-thc
/ followers OF La Toilette and Cummins. [
| have answered 1t but so far the answer
as 1 gave II has never been published by
! our friends. the enemy.
! II am speaker OF the house. elected by
Republican majority four times. l have
been In harmony with, and have to the best
OF my ability, co-operated with the Re
/ publican majority in the legislation that
has been enacted for the last seven years,
during the administration OF Theodore
Roosevelt and William II. Taft.
Will Not Surrender.
II know OF no reason, personal or
political that would prevent my being
of representative should desire. Under
these conditions. pending a campaign, l
could not upon demand OF the enemy,
pledge that in the event OF my reelectiok
| TO congress / would not be n candidatB
for speaker. without acknowledging that
the record OF the house during the last
seven years is subject 10 criticism and
| that the Republican majority with which
l have co-operated in the enactment OF
legislation is subject to just criticism.
This ! will not do, because l believe
that the record of the party for the
| last seven years should be indorsed and
not condemned.
mo Republican representative in the
next congress will be elected speaker un-
| less there is a majority of real Rspub-
| licans In the house that will unite In a
caucus touching the organization OF the
! house and abide by the action of the eau
Gus In the selection OF the speaker and
other officers
Roast for Insurgents.
| Mr. Cannon then devoted his attention
| to the insurgents,
THE senators and representatives who
call themselves insurgents and who
voted against the enactment OF the Payne
bill voted 10 increase or maintain the
duties on the industries ana productions
of their own states and sections.' he de-
clared. They were protectonists for
their own people, but were opposed 10 pro-
lection for other people In otner sections.
Senator La Toilette did not vote to-
increase the duties on lead and zinc, but
he defended the finance committee sched-
ules on those products In speeches, say
Ing they were not high enough. explaining,
however, that he could not vote on the
question because he said he had a per-
sonal pecuniary interest in the outcome
Senators La Toilette and Bristow and
other so-called insurgents voted TO in
crease the duty on barley ana barley malt
for the reason that their constituents
produce barley. In other words, these
gentlemen who call themselves Insur-
gents voted with the Republicans on
schedules that protected the products OF
their constituents and with the Democrats
on schedules that protected the produce
ton OF other sections of the country"