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Show Mr. Cannon, in the course of a speech which was almost wholly devoted to an attack upon the Republicans, said: "I was one with you once and kept my word with you, leaving the party when It deserted our cause." Mr. Cannon was with the party once, and received from the party the highest high-est honor within its gift, but the ex-senator Is slightly forgetful when ho states that he "kept his word" with the party. Mr. Cannon was elected on a tariff platform, and during the campaign was one of the most forceful and eloquent advocates of the protective theory. On that issue, above all others, Mr. Cannon was expected to keep faith. But in the face of all his protestations, in repudiation of the platform on which he was elected and against the wishes of a majority of his constituents, the Republican Re-publican senator v,oted with his Democratic colleague, col-league, Mr. Rawlins, in opposition to the Dingley tariff bill. After this sample of Mr. Cannon's "keeping faith' the Republicans were able to watch without any tearful demonstration Mr. Cannon's exit from the Republican tents and his subsequent startlingly frequent political transformations. |