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Show WILL BE CANDIDATE FOR SPEAKERSHIP CIHCAOO, Aug. 15 The Inter-Ocean Inter-Ocean tomorrow will print on Interview Inter-view with JoBepn O. Cannon, speaker of tho house. In which he denounces Insurgents, pays ho will be a candidate candi-date for the speakership of the next house and declares that reports of a contemplated reorganization of the Republican party originated with tho Insurgents and Democrats. Referring to the dispatches from Beverly, Cannon said: "I don't believe Mr. Tuft contemplates, contem-plates, any such action. The president presi-dent Is not that kind of a man to yield every passing whim of a rnla-fr'ty. rnla-fr'ty. The story that Senators Ald-ilch Ald-ilch and Hale and myself were to be thrown out of the party will be found, when traced to Its source, to have originated with some, of the Insurgent-Democrat allies, whose wlshea are father to the thought. "I expect to be re-elected to congress con-gress by an overwhelming majority, and I will be a candidate for speaker but always subject to the will of the people. If I am beaten In the caucus cau-cus which I believe Is remote, I will willingly take my place In the rRnks." Answering the question. "Will you be a candidate for re-election a sneaker for the next house?" Cannon made this statoment: "I have been asked that question frequently and especially by our Democratic friends and their practical practi-cal alllos the followers of LaFol-lette LaFol-lette and Cummins. I have answered It, but bo for the answer has never been published by our friends, the enemy. ' I ara speaker of the house, elected by a Republican majority four times. I bavo been in harmony with, and have to the brst of my ability, cooperated co-operated with the Republican majority majori-ty in the legislation that has been enacted for the last seven years, during dur-ing the administration of Theodore Roosevelt and Wm, H. Taft. "I know of no reason, personal or political, that would prevent my being speaker again if a majority of the houso of representatives should desire. de-sire. Under these conditions, pending pend-ing a campaign. I could not upon demand de-mand of the enemy, pledge that In the event of my re-election to con-press con-press I would not be a candidate for speaker, without acknowledging that the record of the house during tho last seven years is subject to criticism criti-cism and that the Republican majority major-ity with which I have co-operated In the enactment of legislation Is subject sub-ject to Just criticism. "This I will not do, because I believe be-lieve tho record of the party for tho last seven years should be Indorsed inJ not condemned. "No Republican representative in the next congress will be elected speaker unless there Is a majority of real Republicans In the house that will unite In a caucu3 touching the organization of the house and abide by the action of the caucus in tho selection of the speaker and other oniccrs." Mr. Cannon then devoted his attention at-tention to the Insurgents: "The senators and representatives who call themselves 'insurgents' and who voted against tho ennctmen of the Payne bill voted to Increase or maintain the duties on Industries and productions of their own states and sections" he declared. "They were protectionists for their own people, hut were opposed to protection pro-tection tor other people in other sections. sec-tions. "Senator LaFollete did not vote to increase the duties on lead and zinc, but he defended the llnance committee schedules on those products pro-ducts in speeches, savins they were not high enough, explaining, however, that he could rot vote on the question ques-tion In which he said he had a personal per-sonal pecuniary Interest in tho out como." |