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Show I "UNCLE JOE" COMES BACK i vwki "Uncle Joe" Cannon, easily the most picturesque and probably the most powerful Individual who has sat in the house of representatives in recent re-cent years, by being re-elected to congress con-gress stands forth as a lively contradiction contra-diction of the Osier theory of the uselessness of a man when he has passed his sixtieth year. He is now seventy-nine years old, but is as chipper chip-per as of yore and as ready to get into a legislative scrap. Congress and' Washington generally welcome the1 veteran back, for he is always Interesting. Inter-esting. "Uncle Joe" has been compelled1 to back-track on an assertion whiclvj he made just before he left the official-i dom of Washington. At a banqued given in his honor, he said: I "My friends, I am an old man.j Measured by years I am ao old man.) I am about to retire from public life.' My face is turned toward the set-j ting sun." Mr. Taft, then the president, was a guest at this banquet, and made a; (speech in appreciation of "Uncle Joe." ; "He says he is going away and not coming back," said Mr. Taft. "I hopej that is not true and I do not believe it is true. I think that when he goes out: to that district and walks up and down Vermilion county, and finds how; many people are sorry they did not vote for him at the last election, the oldj warhorse will again scent the battle from afar." I |