The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-11-13
CANNON FINDS
REST SOUGHT
BY RETIRING
Funeral Services For Uncle
Joe. WIN Be Held Next
Tuesday Afternoon
MANY SEND Tributes
Nation Has Lost One of It's
! Most Able Men, President
Coolidge Says
MANY SEND TRIBUTES

Danville, Ill., Nov. 13.-Ce9-"Uncle
Joe" Cannon, the nations eldest
statesman, who first ran FOR public
office the yeer Lincoln wss elected
TO the presidency, has found the rest
no sought when Ae retired from pub
lie life three years ago and "came
home to die"
Funeral services for the patriarch,
who entered the long sleep aA noon
yesterday in the brown brick man.
sion from which he went to congress
53 years ago, will be held
next Tuesday, with burial in Spring
Hill Cemetery, in the Vermilion
Hills, beneath modest monument
which he chose and erected on the
family lot.
The services will be held at st.
James Methodist Episcopal church ut
o'clock, the Rev. T. N. Ewing, pas
tor, officiating.
The body will lie in state at the
Cannon mansion Sunday.
Tributes to the dead statesman
poured in today from friends and
former foes who recalled the vivid
days when Cannon ruled the national
house Of representatives with an iron
hand.
Coolidge Extends Sympathy
"The nation has lost one Of its
most able, interesting and beloved
men of the last generation" Presi-
dent Coolidge said in message Of
sympathy to Miss Helen Cannon,
daughter Of the former speaker. ale
will always rank as great American.
His great influence gave his country
a better government"
While his political career dated
back to the days of the great emanci-
pator, "Uncle Joe" had other traits
in common with Lincoln. His fea-
lures often were said to be Of the
Lincoln type. From ears to chin he
wore o fringe Of close crop beard,
the upper lip clean shaven. Also
there had been no man In public NE,
Lincoln excepted, around whose life
grew ZIP such a lore Of tales. Ger
tain1y there hNS never been i man SO
lampOOned in caricature and car
tOOn.
While Cannon's term of service in
congress stretched over nearly u half
century and was the longest on REG
ord, there was one man who called
him "Kid." He is General J. Warren
Keifer, 30, of Springfield, Ohio, q
former speaker Of the house, who
served with Uncle Joe for years in
congress.
Always called Him "Kid"
II always called Joe the Kid" ex-
planned General Kcifer. "You see he
was 90 years old last May and | will
be 81 years old on January 80, 50 I
am that much older than The Kid.
He always enjoyed that little joke
and often in his letters he would sign
himself just that way"
While Mr.. Cannon first entered
tho house Of Representatives in 1873,
serving until his retirement except
for four years which covered his two
defeats, the stateman's first bid for
public office was in 1860 when, ut the
age Of "a, he ran unsuccessf fully for
states attorney. The next year he
was candidate for the same office,
winning out and serving eight years.
At one time Daavills had hopes Of
seeing its distinguished con In the
White House, for no received S
votes for the Republican nomination.
in 1903. He declined the nomination
for the vice presidency in 1908.
"Uncle Joe" died the "perfect
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