Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-31
CHICAGO GIVEN TIP
THAT UNCLE |' Joe Isl
10 QUIT CONGRESS-
REPORT REACHES POLITICAL
CIRCLES THAT DEAN or ILL
NoIs LEGISLATORS IS OUT OF
POLITICS AFTER EXPIRATION
or PRESENT TERM.

Chicago, Aug. 31--''Uncle Joe" Can
nomination and reelection to congress
from the Danville district next year
His congressional service will termin.
ate by his own wish with the end OF
the present, or Sixty-seventh, congress
This information was brought to
Chicago yesterday by Congressman
William A. Rodenberg of East st.
Louis, just from Washington.
There is no doubt about It," Con
gresham Rodenberg said. Uncle
Joe's intimate friends and his family
are fully apprised that Mr.. Cannon has
made his last primary fight and that
he will not return to congress after
1.-THE end of his present term"
Z Uncle Joe.s voluntary withdrawal
therefore leaves the field wide open
for the Republican congressional NOM
ination in the Eighteenth district
which viii be settled at the primaries
next April State Representative Will
liam P. Holiday of Georgetown and
John H. Harrison of Danville are un-
derstood to be ready to get into the
going, and there may be other candi-
dates,
Uncle Joe at the climax Of his
power was the most potential figure
in national politics." Mr.. Rodenberg
said when the house rules were
changed and the speaker made a mere
Agurehead at the time OF the cele
brated fight against so-called cannon
ISM the house of representatives lost
degree of prestige that never has
been regained. The passing of the
then Speaker Cannon marks also the
passing of the power of the house of
representatives. in the judgment of
nearly all members of congress"
Uncle Joe has been in congress, with
the exception of two terms. since his
election the first time in 1872. He
went to defeat on the issue Of the Me
Kinley tariff in 1890 and he was
ewamped in the Republican catastro'
phe of 1912. Involuntary vacations
is the way the former speaker usually
refers to his two defeats. He fire.
quently said to his friends that he
hoped ITO have funeral at the gov
ments expense" meaning that he
wished to lie in the harness and on
the Job as did his old partisan foe
and personal friend, Champ Clark.
Uncle Joe nog is easily the dean
OF congress. He is serving his twenty
third term, which is longer service |
than that of any other man, senator
or representative, in all congressional
history. The day that marked the
breaking Of the record for longevity of
service, that had been held thereto
fore by Justin l.. Morrill, of Vermont.
was the occasion of a notable celebra-
ticr in the house.
! For some time Uncle Joe's friends
hnd intimates, ii is learned, have real
szed that the condition of his health
required an early termination OF his
public duties.
Denies He VIII Quit.
Washington. Aug. 31.--"Uncle Joe
Cannon said today he had not author
ICED anyone to announce he would not
be candidate for reelection as
member OF the house. Commenting |
on the report that Representative
Rodenburg of Illinois had stated the
former speaker had told friends he
would not be candidate again, Mr..
Cannon said
Il can't recollect of telling anyone
that"
It's long time yet until the pri-
mary-plenty of time for me or nv |
would-be successor to make long |
campaign" said Uncle Joe, ANY an |
nouncement as to my plans will come |
from me"
Uncle Joe first went into the house |
in 1873.