Show THE HOUSE RULES Speaker Cannon delivered an address before the Middlesex club of Boston Saturday night on the occasion of ot the Grant birthday celebration After eu eulogizing eulogizing eulogizing j the greatest captain of ot mod modern modern modern ern times Mr Cannon had something to say about the rules of ot the House His remarks were brief and very much to I the point Mr Ir Cannon stated that the rules Ules were a development of years that they thet were substantially as they had been for fora a generation that a campaign against the rules made twenty years ago brought out all the denunciation made maile within the last two years Jears and that on the former tanner occasion It was Vas the loud l d minority trying to dictate legislation No one will question the accuracy of ot the speakers statement Having been In public life lite at the national capital he knows whereof he speaks He was wasa a member of ot the House when Thomas B BReed BReed BReed Reed occupied the chair and the t cry cry of ot Czarism was raised the mi ml minority minority failed to override the majority y yand and control legislation He was also a member of ot the House when the Demo Democrats Democrats Democrats came into power and adopted the Reed rules Summed up the situation amounts to i this When the Republicans control i I the House and elect the speaker the rules are rotten when the Democrats get In and put the gavel Into the hands of a member of that party the same rules embrace the sum sum total of ot parlia parUa parliamentary parliamentary menta y wisdom The hypocrisy of the Democracy in regard to the rules Is ap apparent apparent apparent parent to all beholders The only difference between the fight made on the rules during the present session of Congress and the attack made during the incumbency of Reed lies In the fact tact that In the days of the Maine Mains statesman the Republicans man manfully manfully fully upheld the right of tho the majority to rule and accepted full responsibility for the rules the parliamentary decisions de decisions decisions of tho the speaker and the legisla legislation legislation tion enacted while in n this reform period enough Republicans basely de deserted deserted deserted their party and enabled the th mi ml minority minority to obtain a partial triumph Speaker Cannon doubtless concedes the right of ot the minority members to tomake tomake tomake make nil all the political capital they can canIn canIn canin In objecting to the rule the measures being discussed from time to time thus or orthe orthe the laws as finally enacted what he objects to is the sneaking and cowardly manner In which the Insurgents calling themselves Republicans fall In line Une with the Democrats at the present time and turn the majority into a minority when whenever whenever whenever ever it suits their fancy Under such conditions the Republican party is unable to perfect the desired legislation and of course cannot be held responsible The responsibility rests solely with the tha Insurgents who have made the existing situation possible The Th Democrats play their part but would be harmless without the active aid and cooperation of the tha Imitation tion Republicans Speaker Cannon Is la well aware of ot this fact and Is not Inclined to waste any soft sott words on the tha Insurgents Insurgents gents In his bis speech before the Middlesex i club the tho speaker recalled the tha fact that ht the administration of President Grant was attacked venomously that the hero of the civil war was abused personally that members of obIs his bis cabinet were ma maligned malIgned maligned and traduced He also called attention to the tho fact tact that those who were loudest in their theft denunciations have long since been forgotten while the fame tame of ot President Ulysses 3 S So Grant Increases with the lapse of time that the th Republican party Is still the tha party of the people Mr Cannon Is confident that a ma majority majority majority of at the voters of the tha United States will not be deceived by the tha attacks upon the administration of President Taft Tart It is history repeating Itself The outs want to get In n and are not overly nice In ln the methods employed to attain their object |