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Show SAYS CANNON MUST QUIT Victor Murdock Predicts Trouble for Man Who Serves Notice on "Uncle Joe." Kansas City, Mo. Some one in the next session of congress is going to have a mighty unhappy ten seconds in the company of Speaker Cannon. Men who reviewed the future here believed be-lieved that about ten seconds would do, and they were equally certain that the particular visit to the sacred chamber cham-ber would be made by some one; especially es-pecially certain was Victor Murdock of the Seventh Kansas congressional district. dis-trict. The most disagreeable job in the world is waiting for some member of the Cannon machine in the house," Mr. Murdock said. "It will be performed, per-formed, in all probability, in the next "Uncle Joe" Cannon. eight months. The satraps of the Cannon Can-non machine will hold a meeting and pick some man to go to Cannon and tell him that for the safety of the system sys-tem he must announce immediately his retirement. "The domination of Cannon over his lieutenants is such that any one of them would rather meet death than to face the speaker on this proposition, because Cannon has no intention of retiring, re-tiring, and will not take kindly to the suggestion; but he is impossible, and his lieutenants know it and fear that If he continues as a factor he will carry the system down with him. "They know that for their own good the system must be saved. They are guarding three propositions. "The first is the right in the speakership speak-ership of inquisitorial recognition. The second, the power which the system will do everything to preserve, even to eliminating the present speaker, is the power of the appointment of committees, com-mittees, under which, as is well known, a part of the house control hinges. "The third factor of control which the machine will try to preserve is the membership of the speaker on the committee on rules. "The condempatlon of Cannon can no longer be identified as sectional. I am in receipt of letters from nearly every section of the country, official and private alike, and all tell the same tale of a widespread determination to veto the power of this man. "Cannon may not know that he is gone, probably does not, but his lieutenants lieu-tenants know it, and from this time nn thoiv wlinlo OTidpmrnp will Ho trt |