| Show GOMPERS GOES V MR AFTER CANNON Labor Leader Invades the Dis District District District of the House V V Czar Today Danville Damme Ill Sept 6 Samuel Gom Gorn Gompers pens pers president or Of the thet American Fed Federation Federation Federation of oC Labor will vIll Invade Imade the Eight Eighteenth Eighteenth congressional district t of or Illinois Monday for tor the avowed av cd purpose oi tit ot bringing about the defeat ot of Joseph J G Cannon speaker sp aker ot of the national house of representatives who Is making his nineteenth campaign for fora a seat at In iii the house of congress from the in First Addres Today Mr Gompers is billed d to te make mako his first address at the Labor bor day y celebration eel c dna lebra tion here tomorrow Two years ago Jie he declared his Intention of or seeking the speakers sp akers defeat dere t and announced that he would make a 11 number of or speeches Sp ch s for tor the Democratic candidate who op posed Mr Cannon However Mr Gom Corn Gompers Gompers pers made only one or two speeches in inthe Inthe inthe the outskirts of oC the district failing to appear in Danville where wh rc the heaviest hea labor tabor vote of ot Mr Ir Cannons district to ih I polled and the speaker was vas as reelected by the largest majority he has had in eighteen campaigns with the tion Uon of the vote cast for tor him four years ago on the occasion of the Roosevelt v lt it landslide V Depends n the Miners rs In this county cb nty Is I polled polleT the heaviest labor vote of Ir the entire district some caine or of oC these laboring men being employed in the coal mines situated near Danville and und it is in this county that Speaker S r Can Cannon Cannon Cannon non receives his heaviest majority In Inthe Inthe Inthe the next largest labor tabor or county Mr Cannon is his next heaviest majority and ami so on lown rn to Edgar county In which but few tew union laborers reside and which is copulated almost entirely by farmers where the speaker receives his lightest majority Despite the activity which Mr Gom Goin Gompers Gompers pers pore promises In his declaration that he will attempt to defeat the speaker by lining up the labor vote against him Mr Cannon is wholly confident of reelection |
