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Show CHARGES AGAINST CANNON. The most scathing indictment of Joe Cannon, since the insurgents insur-gents started out to expose the speaker, is that of Victor Murdock who, in a speech in Pleasanton, Kansas, yesterday, said : "Only the members of his cabinet had the entry and who is that cabinet? Why, Senator Lorimer for one. Lorimer, whose election to the senate is a national scandal. Who, for another? Why Joe Sibley of Pennsylvania, who takes care of the lubricating end of the Standard Oil company's business. You remember Sibley. Sib-ley. He wrote some letters to Archbold of the Standard Oil com-pany com-pany once. Then there is Lucius Littaur of New York, go-between for Tammany. "Those are types of the speaker's associates. This man of the people ! This is the man who ran your congress for you. There are many of us who can testify to the weight of his hand. What happened hap-pened when a congressman dared to stand in his way?. Cooper of Wisconsin did it, and was bounced off his committee. Norris of Nebraska, Ne-braska, and Gardner of Massachusetts did it and they were lifted out of their committee places. I did it, and what happened to me? It took Cannon some time to fix on my punishment. He did not want to do anything that would make a martyr of me in Kansas, so he adopted the refined cruelty of taking me out of fifth place on my committee, which I had worked up to in six years, and put me down at the bottom again, and there ,1 am now. Well, do you imagine I can't kick as hard at the bottom of the committee as in the middle of it? It wasn't I he punished. It is the eighth Kansas district, and it is in the name of the people of that district that I am fighting CannonisnL" Heretofore the Speaker has been assailed with generalities, but the Kansas congressman indulges in direct accusations, and charges that Cannon has been the representative, not of the people, but of powerful interests seeking special privileges by congressional enactment. enact-ment. If it can be proved that Cannon is neither Republican nor Democrat in his subserviency to the corrupting forces of predatory wealth, but that he receives inspirations from Tammany and its schemers as well as Joe Sibley and Lorimer of unsavory name, then Republicans, even more so than Demorats, should desire his retirement retire-ment and labor for his dethronement. |