The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-07-11
An Inquiry Regarding These
Twenty three DeSeTGeFs
I'm 1909.
I'm 1909.

a speech in the Baltimore Convention. In this
editorial you state that Joe Cannon said that
without the help of the % Democratic deserters
in the fight the rules in March, 1909, he
would never have been able to pass the Payne
Aldrich Tariff Bill.
| am making the race here for the Democratic
nomination for Congress against Hon. John A.
Moon, who voted for Cannon rules in March,
1909, and who has always stood by Cannon in
Congress. | would like to know where /
lay my hands on this statement which you say
Cannon made.
Moon is very much like your Representative
Brantley. Moon voted for placing the tax on
Cuban sugar; against free lumber against the
bill providing for publicity of campaign contribu-
lions, etc. II you can give me any information
along this line that | make this direct
charge, that is that Cannon made the above state
ment, will appreciate it very much.
In recent editorial you made mention of the
fact your Representative Brantley, of
your Georgia representatives, had stood with the
Express Companies. I have record showing
all the votes Of Moon in Congress, and see where,
on December Is, 1900, he voted for an amend
ment to the bill I'll r. 1894, which provided
for tax on express packages. Is this the bill
to which you have referred, and for which your
representative voted?
Thanking you in advance for any information
you can give me, am
Yours very truly
JOE " WILLIAMS.
(D In his address at banquet Of the
Knife and Fork Club in Kansas City, Mo,
Speaker Joseph 6. Cannon, in the course of
partisan address, stated that two of the
Insurgent Republicans, Norris of Nebraska,
and Nelson of Wisconsin, co-operated with
MIR. Clark IN every move against considera-
ton of the tariff bill.
Said Mr. Cannon: "Mr Clark's commit
tee on Rules would have given the same pro-
lection to the tariff bill, that the wool would
have given to the sheep. The Republican
majority of the House, with clear majority
IN support of the tariff bill, would have been
helpless In any effort to register it's will,
because any resolution for a special rule to
bring the bill to a vote would have been
referred to the committee on rules. domi-~
mated by Champ Clark, leader of the minor
ity, and leader of the efforts to prevent the
enactment Of the bill"
10 put 1t another way the nominal repre-
sentative majority in the House, would have
been destroyed, if all the minority had CO.
operated with all the so-caIled Insu1Ioent
Republicans and the very first pledge of the
Republican National Convention, the Repub-
hcan President Taft would have failed as
though a Democratic House of Representa-
tives had been elected instead of a House
with normal Republican majority of forty
six.
Some of the twenty-three Democratic
deserters who thus enabled the Republicans
to redeem the tariff pledge and to put upon
us the damnable Payne-Aldrich bill were:
Fitzgerald, n Y. Livingston, Ga.
Moon, Tenn. Brantley, Ga.
Broussard Ia. Edwards, Ca
Estopinal, La. Sparkman, Fla. -
Lee, Ga. Griggs, Ga.
w. M. Howard, Ga. Morgan, Missouri
(2) The bill to which referred was that
which proposed to put Express Companies,
the Pullman Car CO the Tnlorhono ari