The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1910-09-20


nation in the matter Of the de-
sire of his friends that he should
be the temporary presiding Of
ficer in q state convention of his
party. 1t has caused the Sreak-
er Of the national House Of Rep
resentatives to declare in public
utterance, jocIlarly perhaps, but
nevertheless without q due sense
of their high position and WORTH
ness, chat men of the build of
Jonathan 7. Dolliver, Robert M.
LaFOlette, Albert J. Beveredge
and many other good men and
able eXpounders of the true prin-
ciple5 of thc Republican party,
whom he was pleased to desig-
nate IS Insurgents" are traitors
and fit only for the hanglnan.
Is it not strange that the men
OF the Republican party, high in
its deliberations and moulders of
its policies, who in the revision
of the tariff made by the exist
ing Congress, adhered to and
stood by the declarations of the
party in its platform at its most
| recent and greatest convention
should be designated as 'Insur-
gents" and that those who re-
fused to abide by the declarations
of the platform so adopted, as to
the most vital question in Amer
lean politics, should be termed
the Regulars? Such Il desig-
nation of the former class is
clearly misnomer, and if appli-
cable at all should be used in con-
nection with the latter, who how
ever in the pride Of their hearts
are pleased to call themselves by
the more euphonious appellation,
'Standpatters. "
Of all men in either branch Of
Congress who by their conduct
have blocked and retarded rene
dial legislation and pushed and
forwarded that of an obiectiona-
bic nature, there is one who
stands prominently conspicuous
as the advocate and promoter of
the Interests" to which the ex-
President has referred as the DO
SCISSORS of predatory wealth. His
voice has been loudest and his
right arm has never tired in the
use Of the gayel in the promotion
Of the welfare Of these predatory
combinations. lie is the Speaker
of the National House Of Repre-
sentatives, and as such has as
sumed powers unknown and an
exercised by the ruler of any
people. In his extreme desire to
serve these interests he has arbi-
trariiy refused to recognize the
duly elected represen tatinves Of.
Congressional districts, composed
approximately of half a million
people. He has assembled the
Committee on Rules, of which he
is the Chairman and dictator, and
caused to be initiated and enact
ed without mature deliberation.
and oftentimes without any de
liberation, legislation wherein
the welfare of the whole Ameri-
can people have been involved.
Because they would not bow to
his will and acknowledge it as
supreme, he has assigned such
Irlen as William p. Hubbard, of
I West Virginia, and many others
throughout the nation, men Of
eminent ability and unquestioned
Integrity, to unimportant com
/ mittees where their light has
been hidden and their usefulness
to their country impaired. He
has been at all times and under
all circumstances the servant of
the trusts; and the Identification
of the name of Joseph G.. Cannon
with the vicious legislation of the
past ten years, by which. I'm the
estimation of many of it's adher-
ents, the great Republican party
has been discrcditcd, is ass com
plete as when iu that ancient
day the accusing Prophet pointed
to the guilty king and aid"Thou
art the man"
it was q matter of congratu'a-
ton for all the people when the
so-calIed insurgant Republicans.
with the assistance OF aI Che
ID emocraticmembers of theHouse