El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-15
FAREWELL TO
Cannon At
Dinner
Statesmen Of Both Parties
to Honor Veteran Con
gressional Leader.
FIVE HUNDRED TO
BE AT THE BANQUET
EW TAsHINGTON, D. C., Feb. Is
w Uncle Joe" Cannon, veteran
w 7ee-is1ofc- s,,5 f,yr,e- e7,ee r or.

EV TASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. Is
w Uncle Joe" Cannon, veteran
legislator and former speaker
/ of the house Of representatives, will be
| the guest Of honor here tonight at a
I farewell banquet given by public men
( with whom he has long been associated
The affair will be unique, even in This
/ city Of banQuets, for it is the last chap
/ ter but one in the passing Of a man
/ who has served IS years in congress.
The Cannon dinner will be a nom
partisan affair. At least 500 guests,
Washington new spaper correspondents
will be gathered to do honor to Uncle
Joe" Democrats and Republicans Will
break bread tOgther and political oit-
ferences will be forgotten in paying
tribute to one Of the most picturesque
figures in contempOraneOus political
life.
Planned by Committee of 20.
The dinner is in charge Of q non
partisan committee Of 20 members Of
the house. At its head is representa-
tive Humphreys, of Mississippi, a Demo-
crat Representative Moore OF Penn
sylvania, a Republican, is vice chair
man of the committee.
The movement for a farewell dinner
to the former speaker was InauguTated
several weeks ago when a number OF
Democrats and Republicans gathered in
the office of Mr.. HUMPHREYS and start
ed a subscription list The response
pective diners has grown steadily
since that time As the hour for the
dinner approached 1t became apparent
that the attendance would be a Senu-
inc tribute to the old Republican war
horse and that IL would lax the ca
paciy Of the big dining room IN which
the banquet win be held
Joseph G. Cannon viii he IS years old
in Nay. He says ne viii never seek
public office again; that he IS going
back to Danville to help the young men
whose fathers helped him IN former
years" On March I next he viii have
served 10 terms as a meIE5er VI the
house He was out for two years-the
SD congress-but otherwise his ten
ure of office has been c Jntinucus. Ac-
cOrding TO the number Of years OF &C
tual service. Uncle joe stands head
high over any other member OF con-
gress. His nearest rival is senator
Shelby NJ. Cullom. OF illinois, VINO also
retires on March 4. Senator CUllOm en-
tered the senate in 1888 and has there
fore been member for 80 years
CuIIOm to be Present.
II his health permits, senator Cullom
viii be a guest at the Cannon dinner
Representative Serene E Payne, VINO
has been q member Of the house FOR %
years; represent alive Dalzells OF Penn
sylvania- who has served 70 years ana
Jones Of Virginia (the
ldest Democrat in point Of servie on
The Democratic side of the house, will (
Vice chairman Moore, who has gen \
eraI charge Of the banquet hall arrange
ments sadi today that the Cannon din /
her would be without parallel in the So (
siaI and political history Of Washing
ton. It is approached, perhaps, only by /
the dinner to Uncle Joe" on his va 4
Dirth6ay anniversary, when he was +
speaker of the house and a dominant /
-0litical factor, and not an approaching |
has been"