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Show BATTLE MAY NOT BE OVER. Insurgents. Not Pleased Over Caustic Remarks Made by Speaker Cannon Can-non Before republican Association. Tho titanic struggle which resulted In the destruction of tho speaker's power In the committee on rules, yet leaving Mr. Cannon the speakership itself, may havo mnrked not so much the end of a three days' battle as the beginning or a groat political war. Hardly any one in Washington thinks tho condition of affairs after the momentous battle represents a satisfactory conclusion. The speaker and his friends appear to Interpret tho refusal of the nouso to deposo him as justifying thorn In GEORGE W. NORRIS Congressman from Fifth District of Nebraska. claiming to havo wrested victory from defeat, endorsement from repudiation. Not a few of tho Insurgents who voted for Mr. Cannon's retention are wondering today If they mado a political poli-tical blunder; whether their anti-Cannon anti-Cannon constituents will not, indeed hold tho retention of Cannon In tho speakership to havo nullified the voto to eliminate him from tho rules com-mtttoe. com-mtttoe. The Republican regulars complacently complac-ently claim tho Insurgents who voted for the speaker havo returned to the party fold. Tho Domocrats taunt these Insurgents with having been re creant to tho logic of their Insurgency. Insur-gency. Nobody scorns entirely happy about the outcome Spoakor Cannon's defiant speech Saturday night boforo tho Illinois Republican Re-publican association, In which he contemptuously con-temptuously denounced tho Insurgent members of tho houso who stood by him In the final test, as "cowardly members of congress, without tho courage of their convictions," has cut to tho quick thoso men who responded respond-ed with tho votes to what .they say they bolloved to bo their duty to tho party and to tho country and saved him from further- humiliation. Just now tho feeling among these insurgents is one of tho bitterest reontment over tho attltudo assumed toward thorn. "If this is tho manner of our treatmont for saving tho Republican Re-publican party,", said ono of them on Sunday, who rofused to ajlow him name to bo used, "this battle Just onded will be followed by another beside be-side which tho first ono would bo n skirmish." |
