Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-07-28 | Page 2 | Another Fling at Speaker Cannon

I ANOTHER FLING FUNG AT SPEAKER CANNON Vie Vic Murdock Still Sore at Being Put at Tail End of Committee Pleasanton Kas July 27 In a speech hero bere this afternoon Congress Congressman man Victor Murdock said that In the days day of his hs power it was wan harder barder to get Into Speaker Cannons chamber than into the White Ite house houlle Continuing Mr tr Murdock said Only the tho members of o his cabinet had the en entree entree entree tree and who is that cabinet Why h Senator Lorimer for tor one on Lorimor whose election to the Senate Is js a na nB national national scandal Who ho for tor another Why Joe Sibley of oC Pennsylvania who takes takesO core care O r of oC the lubricating end of or the Stan Standard Standard Standard dard Oil business e You re remember reI remember member Sibley lie He wrote some letters I to Archbold of the Oil company once Then there Is la Lucius Littaur of New York for Cor Tammany Those are types of or the speakers associates This man of the people This his is the man who ran your Congress Congre s for or you There are many runny of us who can ean testify te to tho the weight of his hand What hat happened when a congressman dared to stand In his way Cooper of oC Wisconsin did it and was bounced off his its committee Norris of oC Nebraska and Gardner of Massachusetts did It and they hey were lifted out of oC their commit committee tee ee places I did It 11 and what happened to o me It took Cannon some time t mo to fix Ix on my punishment He lIe did not want to do anything that would make a martyr of ot me In Kansas no so ho he adopt adopted edthe ed d the tho refined cruelty of ot taking me tue out of oC fifth place on my committee which I 1 had bad worked up to in six years and put iut me down at the bottom ottom 1 again agnin ag ln and there here I am now Well Veil do you imagine I cant can t kick as hard bard at the bottom of the he committee a all as In the middle of or It Itt It t I he be punished I am not in Congress It IK is the eighth Kansas dis district dl and It Is 1 In the name of the peo peole eo pIe le of that district that I am fighting