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Show THE POLITICAL WAR IN KANSAS. Speaker Cannon is a defiant politician. He has invaded the "enemy's country," has gone into Iowa and Kansas and has opened open-ed his batteries on tho insurgents within his party.. He is either fool-hardy or thoroughly courageous, as he has invited a storm of criticism which may keep a man of his age busy explaining to the tnd of his days. So far, he has held his own with Murdock of Kansas, but the msurgent leader is beginning to tell Congressional secrets that should prove embarrassing to "Uncle Joe" or demonstrate the speaker's versatility in answering his opponents. The internecine fight should result in good, in either making plain that Cannon and the inner circle of the party are representatives representa-tives of the predatory interests, or that they are but the victims of men of evil minds. For our part, we would be pleased to have the conflict rage until the expose is complete and those inimical to the best interests of the people are banished from public life. We are not so partisan-ly partisan-ly 6tupid as to desire to cover up the shortcomings within the Re-publican Re-publican party which, if persisted in, will eventually wreck the party. Now with Republicanism overwhelmingly powerful, is the most opportune time in which to have a house-cleaning and to sweep all clever deceivers, however prominent they may be, out of the cacred precincts long since dedicated to a noble cause by Abraham Lincoln. If Speaker Cannon is the representative of special inter-ists inter-ists profiting by legislation of his making, then Cannon should te buried in oblivion; if Murdock and the insurgents are prompted in detracting from their superior because of base motives, then the insurgency in-surgency should be allowed to wither and die. The present denouement will do much to enlighten us all and coint the way to duty. |