| Show I I 1 The Most Mo jj o rt t Interesting Man lean an In Iii I Congress o ress u U arc certain which cannot be exhausted no T matter how much muy may be Bald said and written concerning them like likewise I certain persons who Tr arc aro near Thero ceu o to be becom 1 moro more so su attar Ion long of oC even ven en InK Ing Igon u exploitation thou A tx le ot human an anc perennial nt of oC the tho Renus homo that Co this c s net BO and am popularity us co coi loosed i happening Is III to be found known In Ini Cannon of Joseph i nh h G 0 G Cannon affectionately Known josep fo American public us IS Uncle Joe the remark remarkable to When a II man hall hai shown chAwn such uch remark able MO blo and intellectual ca caby by long Ions years of oC Initiative and an Insight Into almost mical problems that Si has Uncle Joe Cannon fa o Ira poso osa as aR u humorist If IC ho wishes may roay without lie ho h any my loss of oC or even of ot That he has hns long lone been bren the nc ac accredited credited funny man of oC the national house houe hai hM not worked any mischief to 10 The the carrel career of the speaker there Thoro are aro those hose who have hao never been able to live IIvo down V the Iho reputation acquit acquired cil suddenly single humorous outhunt outburst In the Iho by hv a 1 legislative precincts Their fellows and und the public have hava ha over otter after to take taka them seriously Such has hns not Lit been hern the fate tat of oC Mr Cannon He Ife may muy descend If IC he ho will sill to II the broadest broade l bur bure and retain still In his firmest sl of all tho the power po and authority of hb hl most moat serious moods hoods Perhaps one of at the most humorous features of ot Mr Ir Cannons case caso Is la the tho fact the foundation Joke Joki It U might aught bo he that he Is In appearance co nuin nl as un an unlike like what ho really Is III the tho mUll man on en endowed flowed dotted with the yes yos and no power to an extent beyond any other In thy the civilized world as possibly could be tie betie tie ile Is l the very antithesis of oC n II typical czar of oC the house Ho Ito Is nn un easy autocrat but there does not teem to bo be beany any power behind the tho throne When he decides no one doubts that he Is In wn earnest t and that It Is Joseph 0 O Can Cannon Cannon Cannon non who ho has hall spoken Uncle Joe Joo 0 li III seldom neon leen r nowadays divested of at his clear cigar the Inevitable cigar elgar as the correspondents corre e term teen It It Is not always lighted but as the hu hUt humors mors more como come and go It projects reflectively pugnaciously hu humorously humorous humorously and often generously generous from tram the corner of at his lots mouth or dangles dales from his swaying explaining hand He Is never In one spot for tor any great length of ot tune time Ho lie out nit It it at his desk like a bank president and transact his business amid the Ini mm posing grandeur of at stern Immovability lie He Is h constantly on the move alert abort nervous and prepared to tackle any anything ay thing He its has been compared to a be benevolent benevolent benevolent katydid full Cull of DC happy emotions sod nd pressing pres engagements and the tho ab nb sunlit of at the comparison docs does not item eem absolutely Inappropriate Like many roar iY another e r Undo Uncle JOB Joe loss lias hI a disregard for tor convene conven conventionality On Oto certain occasions this has seemed to 10 amount almost to contempt for Cor tho the prescribed usage of oC good BO so defy clety det A ludIcrous Instance of this came to 10 light nt lit the recent Oregon Orton ex exposition position Uncle Undo Joe was In Portland en the opening diy day by special arrange V V J r r L Lr r at 1 ii i I jl i f t Y ct s i f l r rr r I r rr tt k 1 I Il l rh i it t III h j 1 Ii meal ment and load had contented consented to make an nn addicts addre sot It was ran n a hot June JunC day Ilay noel ami tho the aged statesman v woe na perspiring freely treel as all h he Altered tho the speakers stand In company with a i crowd of or In Invited guests anti and Before leCore scaling himself a Uncle f Joe Joo stroll strode r to 1 o tho the front dropped his Ids hat on the tho table poured a glass glas o of ot t Ice water vater s from a n con convenient co oo pitcher and took a lung long and and anI hearty drink Then ho loo poured more water Into hi lila his hand hant and aull guvo his heat heats rd C II s I pate a e 1 vigorous t us sw Ho lIe closed the Ike performance by hr capturing a 11 vagrant piece ph le of ot Ice lee In ht the Iho pitcher and anti I putting It Into hit hl mouth Most pf pt the guests gUo ts were lucre convulsed e some saute were wore ruth ratio rather ruther er shocked and ond tho the wife wite of ot the floe president l dent of oC the th tilt fad commission was Indig Indignant Indignant nant Sill Sho smothered her wrath until Undo Uncle Joe began bet tI to show Indications ot of o repeating his hi ablutions mod then sent senta a 1 messenger Ines en lr to tu Inform inferno him lint that tho the water waler was vita for foi drinking chinking lour pur purposes lur poses looses ns only Mr II Cannon was wa so upset over the contretemps that ho toe declined to 10 speak Undo Uncle JOGS Joos most recent Recess access of tit publicity hue him coma Conte from his adoption of oC a n entirely of ot I homemade material A North orth Carolina admirer sent cent him enough homespun jean for tor a suit luH and ant the speaker took look It to a fashionable Washington tailor and had hat It made mailo up offer after tho the very lat bat latest latest est and most exclusive mode When ho 4 N A l t r r l la a I n r a P Jo I t 94 crat p I I I I AS ASHE HE IS AND AS THE CARICATURISTS MAKE HIM I matlo his list first public In inthis this attire Sir Mr 11 Cannon attracted Imme and universal attention This fills was 1 vas I not as ni might h t b bo a Inferred on ort account of at tho the homeliness of oC the material but lout r rather because of at the extreme nattiness I of the make The coat was In frock style stile and tho the tailor added lidded nn at extra hobby nobby twist by b making It button only once slid and that at tit the tho waist s line The Tho suit Bult was of oC n a light butternut shade and when Illicit Joo Joe was waR inside of at It ho had the floe of ot a rather fop top foppishly foppishly attired curbstone broker out for tor foran toran foran an early spring airing When Mr Ir Cannon reached the copi copilot lot ol hn hI did not seem to be In his hh usual unperturbed state stale of ot mind lie He con confessed confessed confessed to a friend who rallied him on his hili depressed appearance that Boat he was wa afraid he had overdone It that folks folk might 6 toy soy that boat he was trying to look young oung and sporty Reassured by b the congratulations of ot his hia Intimates he I J made It kno known n to tho the correspondents that everything cv he ho wn was i wearing wait WB made mado of domestic don material even t ell to u a pair of oC homo woven hempen suspenders sun enters which hall had been sent to him hlin from South Hauth th Carolina Malicious persons have declared thAt Uncle UnciA Too Joe wears modish colored socks when In to Washington Wn but hut that he ho exchanges ex exchanges exchanges changes them for knitted ones of homo home homespun spun white yarn arn when ho Is III campaign campaigning ing In III tho the rural districts and LIHI that on those occasions ho II vcr very careful to give Five his trousers an extra upward hitch no so that his homely home foot covering may maybe Ina maybe be bo seen Been by his blot constituents This Is III probably libelous Everybody J knows known that the aged statesman Is not obliged to resort to any uny device whatever to re ro retain roo tain taht support of ot his constituents He lie has had them toll nil hypnotized for tor many man years rears and they could not come cOllie out from under deh his Influence If IC they would It If ho ha should appear to them thorn In the ilU dis dl disguise guise gulso ot of a n wandering minstrel they the would not refuse to support him hint Uncle Joo Joe Is tho the constant con tant recipient of ot disinterested offers All kinds of or folks talks are trying to tf d do n something for tor him all the time Iris Ills mall Is Hooded with let letters lettera letters tera from persons persona who are aro willing to I let lot him In on good thing Almost every overy day of oC the tho life ho Is I hand handed oil the tho card ard of PC some sonni unknown call caller callor er or who IH is anxious to do something pleasant and profitable for him hint A t few tow weeks i ago go one of at these benevolent In Individuals Intercepted Undo Uncle JOG Joe In the tho house hou corridor lor and began glibly lIbl to unfold un unfold fold told his lobs scheme He lie began hean by saying that ho feared the speaker had neglect neglected ed td to provide hl elC with tho the where wherewithal wherewithal withal to obtain all of at tho the rood good things d dot of ot life lite and that h ho had hlLl come romo to Wash Washington ington hogton to give Uncle Joo Joe u financial lift Its a 1 rubber company the man ex explained making bunking a n 1 vain attempt to but hut buttonhole buttonhole the wary wAr seer fleer w We own hun bun hundreds hundreds of ot square miles of oC hearing bearing plants hi In Mexico JI we e want you jou ou to ho he vice president incident We W 1 I Vetoed Interrupted Uncle Joe I Im 1111 doing more presiding now than Is good for Cor me one meI I Of or course your jour our duties dulles wilt will III be bo merely mely nominal the tho promoter continued I Iam Inon am non putting In Ito your our way wa Mr It 1 I or Just because I like you OU and nn J JI for tor no other earthly reason I I suppose my connection with this tha I Icom company com pan would remain an entire ke wo secret cret Mr OIl Cannon Camion Inquired now high highly highly ly Iy amused d dAt At this the tempter looked blank Well of ot course we ws absolutely Ab guarantee hn began to stammer Then Im Ion afraid have havo to dis dislike dislike like 1111 me about wrath my friend said Undo Uncle Joe moving on with a I chuckle Hud Ilan his hili i sense ense of oC propriety heart been less Insistent Uncle Joe might have hav ar arranged arranged ranged not lung long ago to provide himself with underwear for Cor tho the rest o of at Ills his life liCe liCeA A representative of oC a n union underwear establishment made business overtures to tu him blot to the th effect that all that the speaker sI would be bo expected to do d 0 would bo to allow the company to use uso In Its j advertisements a picture of oC Undo Uncle Jon Joe Jo JoI rigged out In n a suit null of oC tho the union under underwear underwear I wear Har Mr r Cannons native modesty appeared In lots his rosy rOilY face tace ho he cried Never hewer will I j compete for pulchritudinous laurels with a Il woman a dead deaLl woman too the I Venus Vrn os de dc In the back pages of oC the magazines Another enterprising American con conceived concel conceived cel d the tho Idea Idoa of oC new brand of at whisky whisk otter after the tine speaker He lie want wanted wanted ed cIllo to call It Uncle Joe Whisky end and to put Iut a picture of ot Mr Cannon on the tho la label label I Ibel bel of oC every elery boW bottle Our advertising man would get Ket up tip some same natty headlines for tor the framed ads urs such Inch as The Kind the tho Speaker Uses Use Its Good Enough For Tor Me or orIf orIf If It You Must Drink Drink the Kind I IDo IDo IDo Do and such like Your picture would stand alloo cm om you ou know tho the whisky titan man Hut Elul paid rold Uncle Joe smiling amII n affably what t do you ou suppose the Epworth h league In my m district would say What need neet you earn care for tor a 11 few tew country coun count country try ball players was the counter query As All the speaker moved away the dis discomfited died solicitor saw lIaw that his hll shout deis dens were moving suspiciously GEORGE GEOROE H II PICARD |
