Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-20
.FLAYS CANNON AS
BIC PROMOTER OF
LOOT AND PLUMBER
Insurgent Murdoch of Kansas De-
nounCeS the Speaker in
VitrioIiC Address
TELLS OF TAMMANY DEAL
Charges House Gar Was Bull
Wark of Every Plot to
SWindIe the People
TELLS OF TAMMANY DEAL
ASSOCIATED Press1

I1hoSDSAesS1N
EMPORIA, Kas., July 19.-Congress-
man Victor Murdock, Kansas insurgent
in the house of representatives, follow
ing the wake of Speaker Cannon to-
day, expounded the insurgent cause in
his first political speech of the
campaign and replied to the speakers
charges made here yesterday. He de-
clared that Mr.. Cannon, 'for thirty
years has been opposed to locomotion
in any direction" charged him with
affiliations with Tammany Hall and
declared the greatest thing the in
surgents accomplished in the last ses-
sion of congress was to put the speaker
off the committee on rules.
'T did not intend to get into this
campaign" he said II have no op-
position in my own district and
thought 1 would keep out of the con-
test, but when Joseph G. Cannon came
into the state to speak against the
things nearest my heart 1 could not
conscientiously keep out of the fight.
Speaker Cannon for thirty years
has been opposed to locomotion in any
direction. For over a quarter of
century he has stood against prog
ress. He is not only standpatter
but a standstiller. During his polit-
ical life he has opposed about all the
progressive legislation that has ever
been offered and the wonder is that
so much of it has managed to creep
into the statute books.
HE opposed the federal inspection
Of meats; he stood opposed to irriga-
tion to currency reform, to pure food
laws and regulations to civil service
reform and to practically all progress
sive legislation since the civil war.
DEAL WITH TANIMANY
- T - {oJI
YOU something that Cannon did not
mention in his speech yesterday. While
posing as a partisan, as an ardent adj
vocate of party fealty, he has played
in the dark with Tammany. He did
not hesitate to rejoice when his boon
companion, Lorimer of Illinois, was
elected to the United States senate by
coalition with the Democrats and by
deal which was rotten to the core;
that has made a stencil in the nostrils
of the nation.
Cannon has thoroughly poisoned the
springs of representative government
for thirty years. He has helped to
block the way to light and freedom.
pretending to stand before the
country as a simple man, favoring low
expenditures, he has in reality pro-
NOTED loot and plunder without stint IL
1t would reward his henchmen or serve
a factional end; pretending to demo-
cratic sympathy and making display
of homely language and meanest man
ner. he has been the bulwark of every
plot and cabal of the aristocracy TO
swindle and cheat and oppress the
people,
ION the night of the 18th of March
a light burned in Cannolfs office.
know, for I was watching 1t iron a.
cubby hole of my own that night and
Lucius Littauer, the greatest my -rlfac-
turer of gloves in the United States
and the mouthpiece of Tammany was
telephoning. l do not know to whom
he was talking.
DALZELL CRACKS WHIT
But I do know what happened.
And I do know that Herbert Parsons,
chairman of the county Repubheeu
central committee of New York pub
licly charged in a statement that q
bargain was made with TamnanyI
with the Democrats Of Tammany Tor
their votes to save Cannon.
"The next day came the fight,
March IS. The old rules were voted
down, and suddenly, to the astonish-
ment of the regulars, upon signal
from some one, Cannon recognized
Fitzgerald, a Tammany Democrat VINO
made a motion to stop the tide aginst
Cannon and 1 sat where I could hear
DalzeT Of Pennsylvania turn to the
Danic-s stricken bunch of regulars and
say, your vote is aye and 1t was
aye.
'There have been corrupt votes in
the American congress; there have
been servile votes in the American con-
gress: but 1 stand here to tell you
never was a more servile and slavish
vote cast in your congress by your
representatives than when, under the
lash of Dalzell the slave driver from
Pennsylvania, your representatives in
Kansas from all the districts but the
seventh and eighth, voted under the
lead of that Tammany Democrat to
bind that oorrupt bargain with Tam
many and the New York machine.
"Can you imagine Webster voting
with that gang? Or Clay? Or Jeffer-
son? Or Jackson?"