The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-01-14

III have ever Deen over must VI AO""'
Nebraska. Missouri. Kansas and
IOklahoma, and into Colorado and
lSouth Dakota, and everywhere in
that, region "Cannonism' is the re-
sounding theme of every tongue and
lagainst 1t that portion of the coun-
TRY is aflame. Adam Rede, OF Min
nesota,. describes himself as Can
nonized statesman since he was de
feated for denomination by adhear-
ing to Uncle Joe. and the signs OF
the times indicate that that pecu-
liar class of statesmen to when
Adam claims to belong will be much
increased this year" b.
Cannon's Elgin Speech.
Mr.. Clark said that Speaker Can
mons Elgin speech "in which the
speaker was so reckless and so Bit
ter added to neither his reputation
nor his popularity" and that in that
speech and the one delivered at
Kansas City, "he made one declara-
ton which seems to prove that he is
losing his power OF memory. He as
serted that the fight against the
house rules was simply an effort to
prevent any tariff legislation, which
is the same prepOsterous fable by
which President Taft and his eabi-
net were induced to snatch the
speaker and his precious rules as
brand from the burning on March
lis. The statement is not true and
the only way the speaker can be ex-
cused for making it is that he mas
forgotten utterly what happened
that day in the house of representa-
tives. He knows that the resolu-
ton which / offered by authority OF
the Democratic caucus and the IN
surgent Republicans of the house TO
elect a committee OF fifteen to re-
port a revised set of rules specifical-
lly authorized the speaker to appoint
the committee on ways and means,
enrolled bills, and rules, the only
three committees which have and
could have anything whatsoever to
do with the tariff bill.
at was specifically and clearly
stated in the debate on my resolu-
ton and subsequently that the alli-
ance or cooperation, or whatecer
anybody may please to call Il, be-
twixt the large majority Of Demo-
Gratis and the insurgent Republicans,
went only to a reformation of the
rules. The speaker undoubtedly
read by resolution.
Consequently, every member Of
1.-THE house, whether a Cannonite or
an anti-Cannonite, and every other
well informed citizen of the repub-
lie must have been utterly amazed
when they read his assertion made
at Elgin and repeated elsewhere that
the fight TO revise the rules was an
effort to defeat tariff legislation.
His caper is the old trick of the ink
fish TO darken the waters. He was
acting on the principle that any port
1 is good in a storm. But he will de-
ceive nobody by such perversions OF
history. The right to revise the rules
has been on in one shape or an
other to my certain knowledge for
twenty-one years, and it will con-
tinue, never fear, until IL is crowned
with complete success.
at is not true that l was en-
deayoring to prevent tariff iegisla-
ton, or desired to do so. AS had
been working tooth and nail all my
life for a education of the tariff,
would have been an idiot to try to
prevent any tariff revision downward
which might be promised or expect
ed from the Republicans.
Republican Troubles.
"Mr. Speaker Cannon may rage
until he has the apoplexy. but he
cannot terrify the men who are the
objects of his spleen. He is fond
of quoting scripture, although he
generally quotes it incorrectly. He
should ponder that portion of holy
writ which says: Thou shalt not
bear false witness against thy
neighbor.'"
In conclusion Mr.. Clark said:
Certainly the Republicans cannot
be described as happy family. The
Parsons-Cannon row, the Ballinger-
Pinchot row, the Crane-Knox row
the MISUNDERSTANDING row, the
constantly increasing talk of the re-
turn from Elba,' the central bank
row, all these are merely symptoms
but most suggestive symptoms of
the disease now afflicting the G. o.
p. So, while Democrats everywhere
celebrate the glad New Year by get
ting together for an assault all along
the line upon the common enemy
Republicans present to the astonish-
ed gaze of men the appearance of a
dissolving view"