Show pASSING OF SPEAKER CANNON Samuel Gompers in a report to the Federation after aCter his return from Illi Jill Illinois Illinois nois made the assertion that Speaker Cannon would be defeated Those who wio remembered the campaign of at two to years ears ago when the labor leader lelder tried to de defeat defeat feat teat the speaker did lid not take tako much stock stack In the tile assertion At the present time however the indications bear out the statement made by b Mr Gompers While the laboring people are arc hot on the trail of ot Mr Ir Cannon and the farm farmers farmers ers rs havo grown tired of at the methods used by the czar ot the house In the In Interest Interest interest terest of ot the tho trusts a new element of ot discord has been injected Into the Re Republican Republican publican ranks in the Danville district in Illinois The recent conference of ot the Meth Moth Methodist Methodist odist Episcopal church appointed a temperance committee of ot representative tive minister and laymen Governor J JFrank JFrank Frank Hanly of ot Indiana and Governor E W V Hoch of at Kansas both Republicans cans being two of ot the most moat distin distinguished distinguished members The appointment of ot the committee was the outcome of ot the refusal of ot the speaker to allow a vote upon the bill regarding the Interstate shipment of ot liquor The committee began an active campaign as soon as appointed John J Jenkins of ot Wisconsin chairman of ot the house ju judiciary committee one on of the chief in instruments Instruments Instruments used by b Speaker Cannon In blocking legislation le was defeated In the recent rec nt primaries for tor and the Methodist vote ote cut a big figure Now No It is Speaker Cannons turn to face tace the music In the current issue of the to Northwestern Christian Advocate one of ot the ablest and most influential religious Journals in the tho United States eighteen bishops have united in a symposium In which they denounce Mr tIr Cannon and amI urge Irgo the necessity of ot his defeat detent at the polls In November These churchmen are arc not politicians and have no Interest at nt the election save savea a desire for tor an Immediate return to a representative form of ot f government which Is impossible so long as such men menas menas menas as Joseph G Cannon control the action of ot the Republican party part Following are some extracts from the comment of at these eighteen Methodist bishops who advocate the defeat of ot Uncle Joe rOlp H VINCENT VINCENTI I unqualifiedly In Indorse Indorse dorse the attitude of ot the Methodist ll Tem Tern Temperance Temperance perance society toward Speaker Cannon and devoutly hope that our people will stand to a man In favor tavor of ot the appeal it makes D A sympathy is wholly with the Littlefield bill I hope our people will vote oto for or anything of or o any anybody an anybody body who will wilt do what he can to cripple the liquor traffic Independent of the present case It has for tor years cars seemed to tome tome tome me a monstrous thing that the speaker of the house should bo ho able to say sa what the house should or should not act on He HeV was V lf Intended tb be bo the servant senant and not the master of the tho house hoime FRANK M BRISTOL The emergency which tho the speaker of ot the house of ot representatives representatives has hal precipitated Is so grave that members of ot his political party part have abundant abundant dant cause for tor withholding their support from him at the organization or of ot the next house WILLIAM A I consider the attitude of ot Speaker Cannon as represent represented ed cd in his conversation with the committee from the tho Methodist general conference to tobe tobe be he wholly Inexplicable and wholly unjustifiable His tone throughout was the tone of ot a It special pleader S Speaker Cannon nor anybody else must stand In Inthe Inthe inthe the way Wll of or the moral advantage advant In Amer America ica EDWIN H II HITCHES If I were in Can Cannons Cannons s district I would not vote vota for tor his re nomination If It I were a voter In his Ills dis district district I would not vote for tor his return r turn to congress If It I T were a member of ot con congress congress gress gross I would not vote for tor his as speaker ROBERT He Cannon nul nullifies nullifies the peoples will by hindering legis legislation legislation legislation lation in the house H He must be dislodged that the flood of moral indignation against a the rum traffic may sweep It Into the pit WILLIAMF The speaker c J I 0 of the house of qt congress has chosen hoen to set lIet himself in opposition to the desires of ot tem tern temperance perance people In this matter It Is for tor temperance people to set fet themselves in de det determined t and anti unyielding opposition to the th speaker WILLARD F MALLALIEU May God Godsave Godsave Godsave save us from representatives and speakers who are either the defenders of or who In any way apologize for tor the nuisance and curse of at rum selling Bal Ballots Ballots Ballots lots wisely cast will help answer our prayers JOSEPH F BERRY Our ur first concern should not be bo to prevent the reelection of ot Mr Cannon to the speaker lp of ot the house of ot representatives but to t prevent his reelection to membership In that body If It Mr Cannon Imagines he has a walkaway in the congressional district distri t this year his pis is Imagination in ht I likely to be subjected to a severe Jolt Jolton on election day Like other Inveterate gamblers the speaK r played the game to the limit only to lose ose on the last turn I |