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Show HANG THE INSURGENTS! rSo Speaker Cannon thinks shooting is too good for the insu-gents, insu-gents, and that they should be put to death by hanging. That v teranco is an open avowal of the bitterness of the internecine strv, gle, in which the insurgents and regulars of the Republican party arc involved ; it attests further to the uncompromising nature of the fight. Congressman Cannon takes it for granted that the most sacred thing and the supreme test of party loyalty Is tariff, in fact, he says he would like to see Dollivcr, Bristow, Clapp and other insurgents insur-gents with the Democrats, were it not that such an upset would bring sorrow and heartaches to millions of hearthstones through the repeal of the present tariff law. We are forced to the conclusion that Speaker Cannon is himself him-self somewhat of a demagogue, although he seems to see the demagogic dema-gogic only in the acts of the insurgent Republicans. The Speaker knows this country is capable of competing "with the world in almost every line of manufacture, and that we are exporters of nearly every fabricated article, and why he persists in placing so much stress on tariff with those facts before him is not explainable unless we class the man as purely a politician and somewhat of a mountebank at that. The insurgents are strong men. Had they been weaklings and cowards they would have been abject followers, as are all poltroons. They are attempting to correct certain abuses within their party and they aim to purify its leadership and free ih head of the party from the charge of subserviency to special great interests. For this they are availed with all the vehemence that might be directed against them were they common horse-thieves or buccaneers of the main. But the people of this country are with them and already al-ready have extended, in more ways than one, their confidence, and Speaker Cannon is but venting his spleen to no purpose, and his tirades of denunciation and dislike are serving simply to kindle a self-consuming fire of intolerance and hate. ! |