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Show CANNON'S ' DEFENSE Was Not in Favor of Tariff Rev;sionHad i to Stand by Party HERINGTON. Kas., July 19 Speaker Cannon's second speech today, to-day, dellered hero this afternoon, was a tariff argument and an attack on insurgency, He said: "I am a republican, Just a plain, simple republican. I am not a progressive, prog-ressive, not an Insurgent republican. "Whenever It Is necessary to use an adjective to describe the republicans, then before God. 1 will leave the republican party and climb a tree or Join the democrats" Speaker Cannon then took up the tariff and said he had enough of revision re-vision for a long time. "They call me 'old standpatter,"' said Mr. Cannon. "And I think I had as much to do as any other man in convincing former President Roosevelt the time had not como to revise the tariff. "But the demand for revision grew and iu 1 DOS the republican platform pledged Itself to revision of the tariff. I did not want that kind of a platform, plat-form, but there was only one of two things to do. As a republican. I was In honor hound to abide by tho platform plat-form or to leave the party. "We carried the country. We bow the trend of events and we prepared to revise the tariff. For twelve months (he committee on ways and means studied the schedules. "The greatest economist in tho entire en-tire country, so far as tariff matters are concerned. Is Sereno Payne, and he Is chairman of that committee." Discussing the various scheduler of the Payne Aldrich bill. Cannon referred re-ferred to the attitude of "Bristow and Beveridge and all of those democrats." "The publihers' association demanded de-manded that the print paper schodule be lowered, and Herman Rldder, president pres-ident of the association, told us If we did not fix that schedule In the right way, they would pitch the republican re-publican party, as I phrase It. Into hell, and tbey nave been trying to do It ever since, "The Payne bill, as It passed the house, reduced the duty on print paper pa-per from six to two dollars a ton, but when the bill got to the senate the s-enators from tbe paper manufacturing manufac-turing states objected, and it was necessary nec-essary tn compromise. Evon LaFol-lette. LaFol-lette. that flaming llcht from Wlscon-fdn. Wlscon-fdn. opposed a reduction of the print paper duty, and said six dollars was not high enough to protect the Wisconsin Wis-consin paper mills. "LaFollette. Brlslnw, Cummins and their followers call themsrves Insignificant In-significant republicans. They are trying to lead you republicans out of the party of Lincoln into the democratic demo-cratic party Thero is no Insurgent republican party. There are only two parties In this country-the republican repub-lican party and tho democratic party. Why do not these insurgent fellows do like Foss of Massachusetts and openly join tbe democratic party? That Is the wav they are headed, but they halt on the wav." EMPORIA. July 19. Congressman Victor Murdock, Kansas insurgent In the house of representatives, following follow-ing in tho wake of Cannon, today defended de-fended the Insurgents' cause in his first political speech of the campaign here and replied to the speaker's charges made here yesterday. He declared de-clared that Mr. Cannon 'for thirty years has been opposed to locomotion In any direction." charged him with affiliation with Tammany Hall, and declared the greatest thing the insurgents insur-gents accomplished in the last session ses-sion of congress was to put the speaker off the committee on rules. "I did not Intend to get Into this campaign," he said, "I have no opposition op-position In my own district, and I thought I would keen out ft tie contest, but when Jos G. Cannon came Into the stale to speak against the things nearest my heart, I could not conscientiously keep out of the fight. "Speaker Cannon for 2n Years has been opposed to locomotion In any direction. For over a quarter of a century he has stood against progress. He Is not only a standpatter, but a ptandstiller. During his political life he has opposed about all tbe progressive prog-ressive legislation that has ever been offered, and the wonder is that so much of it has managed to creep Into the statute books. "He opposed tbe federal Inspection of meats, he stood opposed to Irrigation, Irriga-tion, to currency reform, to pure food laws and regulations to civil service reform and to practical legislation since the civil war. Now listen to me. I want to tell you something that Cannon did not mention In his speech yesterday. While posing as a partisan; as an ardent advocate of party fealty, ho has played In the dark with Tammany. "He did not hesitate to rejolco when his boon companion, Lorlmer, of Illinois, was elected to tbe United Statet, senate by a coalition with the democrats and by a deal that was rotten to the core; that has made a stench in the nostrils of the na-, na-, tlou. |