Show WILL THEY ABOLISH THE SPEAKER Quite a number ot of wrIters who should know better are now engaged in what they call the crusade Itis It Itis is the end ot of they shout shou through the pages of magazines that in another year will besh be singing gi g the praises of the organization quite iu te as steadily as they now are publishing Its alleged evIls But would the writers and magazines make an end of the speaker Is it their intention to run the lower house of Congress without a presIding officer Have the they devised aplan a aplan plan by which four hundred men can be conducted through legislative de deliberations deliberations liberations without some somo dIrecting hand Has it occurred to them that a good many strong men In the house would have quite as many claIms to leadership as those nOw demandIng It And do they think there is any con congressman gressman who believe hE het has aright a arIght rIght to the floor whenever he chooses to rise and demand It Some time as Mr Cannon has said he will get out of Congress It is easy to realize that there will wili come a day when he will not be the Hie presiding of officer fleer or of that large and difficult body But will the body have no presIdIng of officer officer Will It have a man In the chair who will not preserve order One who will get along without rules Ono One who will let the four hundred run without system or discipline It If so then the writers are unreason unreasonable unreasonable able The present speaker may mayy be a little less smooth In the manner of his management than he might be But Buthe Buthe he presides under the rules which the house Itself adopted He is in every way the servant senant of the House dIrected by It to forward business The nation expects hIm to do it His duty impels him to do It And so long as he retains the office he is going to do it And while on the subject we feel free freeto to say that any succeedIng presidIng presiding Ing officer who gets any out ut of Congress hill 1111 have to employ strength and discipline and decision in his rul rulings rulings ings They may get another but they will never have a competent speaker who can get work done without occa occasIonally occasionally inflicting disappointment especially on the vaIn and the ambitious ambi ambitious |