| Show H JOS G CANNON SPEAKER TOBE TO BE I 1 f t S HIS HOME HIS personality AND THE TRAITS THAT HAVE MADE HIM FAMOUS S A 1 in all the united states there ii at this moment jio prouder community than the nty 0 ial avery citizen tit ruil growth ia Us or s ot populate i throwing out hia and repressing ot not according to hia inclination to shout and a marked tendency has heard the nea nall boy who every has been it state for ea ii in a whooping FT t colod that the fiort joseph U cannon in congress and la danville joe cannon or Ln crt joe shall be alic next speaker ol 01 the house of representatives it would bo hard to tell whether dan likes uncle joe the me or t better have known him long por twenty five yearn ha su in congress and with tb 0 exception 0 the feriod fiort 1801 to when he t submerged by the tidal wave this service has been continuous and tot longer even than that he has been a leader in the political and social lite of anille for a of a century lie has lived in the game house in erni illion street danville and or that time the house old fashioned tall and angular i like its owner hat been the center ol 01 bilings in Danul lc ever fance it was WH the house has been the mecca for people ot every lation in life from all over the district for one ot the chief characteristics of mr cannon is his ap in bit library hundreds ot young men have received the birst impetus to lives 0 usefulness they are widely echar abed now but in many towns the choice for next speaker of the house has awakened a feeling that is deeper than racie satisfaction tho house i often an indication ot the character of the owner the first thing that strikes the spectator awit cannons dwelling i that it beto krna an owner who believes in permanency it i ot red brick perched upon a terrace with a square tower in front and a round lower at each side the lawn is left rough and large trees above it form in summer a cool retreat thick ancs overgrow the avails and not much attention ia paid to landscape gardening but within all aenne of and i insularity in the leouie vanishes old hall ia with perfect taste to the right ii a music room nith many pictures and much dainty brie a brac gathered abroad it the dining room with massive black carved furniture good pictures bits ot sculptured marble and bronze are eiery where it is not with these rooms however lint one that at once library and baudy that most of hi visitors tho side of it occupies the congressman alio house which contains the mounil tower and its principal furnishings arc books all kinds of books arc in the hig cases which mask the walls tot congressman cannon is an omnivorous reader and browses in all fields there are yellow calf kitt alume j handsomely hound novels do geared works of reference and homely looks and among then seated at hia roll top desat m an old cane bottom revolving chair which was once hia beati j sn congress Un cleoo there is lo 10 deportment about him lie is a homely man blunt and who hates straight backed chaigr eliav gsg early learned that tables are good to rest ones feet on and that there w no comfort like that founded on the shoulder blades seated in hia cane bottomed chair with his heels higher than his head and the stump of a cigar between hia teeth he receives his visitors IJU cyc glancing over the upper rims ol 01 his s eize up liis caller in a moment and be usually plunges at once into the baitler in his hand language is strong terse and not infrequently tinged mild profanity which somehow faili to offend een the fastidious it seems a part ot the iliin and is accepted as merely a notice conventionalities are barred near greensboro A quaker and N C was mr cannons birthplace in appearance in drem and in speech he till shows signs of hia quaker training though he married outside of the faith and there was a mutual renouncement the story goes that it wis long ago at this time that he began to study the gentle art ol 01 profanity A fatherly quaker soon conme to him with a proposal to return to the fold condition was that to atone only the for his sin in wedding a he must say that he was sorry he had married mary but im damned it im v and ill damned if ill say it was the reply of joseph it was then that diplomatic relations the brethren that vas long ago but the habit 0 arong language hii h ii remained undo joo i now a man of CO lie hat ft thin florid aiice of clean upper lip ail of reddish gray n thin fringe till his hair is white but hit eyes are keen and piercing his dress Is u mixture of the carder and the particular linen a black string tie and a frock coat ilia overcoat almost invariably on lii left inn and almost invariably alie edge ft it draga in the a be walks along deep in thought lie moke almost constantly and when ho does not smoke he chews bobae lie has the old country habit 0 so patting lii around when he take a clipp of the valley it K a and it when be a chew himself he will frequently lop ho arnt laborer he meets in the street and ak for one to the great joy of the donor youn toe cannon was only 11 1 1 when t had lett hi father a aho vho north carolina for ind add in protein cro tein a ai vollen ereck 10 attend a patient patie nf axy wal letl io make in wn world lie bad a little schooling and he educated for tho rest book he studied law in terre diaute raith tolio P a banou awyer tritha dabah valley and later want to in cincinnati 1 anally hs huna out b ia ind then to and from that almo on bis pro gret aa beeady li that in trying iaea he wan BO poor walked from town to town to bave travel bufa he made hi way he married ane expense and one of the good he tell S ot lu firt attempt to found tf ali mother an cco nomica hail told him kereM Qua now that tecc taca get thee a cow a pig and a ot lieen hivo 1 I took another ji advice re la te air cannon 1 I tried 0 o milk the row int W kicked nis over nd I 1 hid to give ain jin bid job t 1 I tried to feed the calf but it butted die all around the yard and tore my clothora nearly off when the bees got ready to I 1 thought I 1 would go out among them like father used to do and banu them the bem got among roe crawled up under tny chirt and stung ine in ft hundred erent places and I 1 bad to let them po the only thing I 1 could get along with at all was the fig T could feed that its bides and it would grunt I 1 got it good and fat and gave it away to a farmer why I 1 could no room kill and eat that hog taran leonid one of the members at my own family I 1 thought too much of t in he went into politics by running for the office ot baates attorney his opponent na ward if lamon once abraham law partner and he was popular in illinois nobody but bini elt thought oung joe cannon had a chance eliut lie did the roada were almost able but lift bought a horse and made a house to bouso canvass in the quaker district they knew him and 11 agreed to ote for him when election dy canic around he was by a comfortable majority he held the office for acen years three years later he was sent to congress to become na it out one of the anost interesting figures in alic great assemblage t washington and one ot ho anost original ori ginAt men ever destined tor alio llio chair since hi first term he has been nominated by acclamation in am district every time but once and from a majority of or so at ills first election he lus won by aa many as 3 00 vote lie knows men and how to handle them lie 3 himself known as a man ot absolute integrity that some of his friends gay is the ot his success hut lie has a kind heart a willingness to listen to others and a practical way of helping them in ciery township in his district there arc men who are glad to stand up and ay pee what joa cannon did tor men maybe there is aarne hint 0 his success there too he looks after every mans casc him ticla he vill go out and look up matters for hi constituents and when lie undertakes to do anything no of opposition daunts him lie has obtained philes for many young men in washington but lie looks after the appointees with great care woe he to the one who is amusing himself instead of toi hii duties ho will find sent home in short order in lie hns made his reputation as linn mail of the committee on app ropi of inch he itai been ft member for twenty years the title waddi DOS of alie treasury can be applied lo 10 him for otharn imo pre st lie keeps hia grip on the purse tiring and he can say xo emphasis lie a strong speaker yet n one would ever think of calling him an orator there arc two point in lu for abilities and cominos casc do not in his casp 1 tail ife 1 iio adept in and lui oratorical oral orical manner athen he is in earnest ia a to marvel at lie wriggles head to toe as he talks liis arms whirl about like the sails on a windi nill hi coattails roat tails hip his head wags and bif handa pound lart each other and then the desk the wrenching and racking he undergoes sn a five minute speech have him and alti voice reveals his quaker training and when he in earnist it briw and falls with the regularity of an elder at but what he nays tell ire has a rough but ready wi t ite knows whereof he sneaks he has a voice in tour fluhs ot the legislation ot congress and in action is often of more account than the democratic minority after one of th melodramatic speeches of the lion william sulzer not long ago coni cannon convulsed the by rising and remarking in hii strident tones and now let M proceed to the public and fool the people some more lie i A practical Con greag appreciates i him and danville and the rest bt his homo district idolizes him what they think of him there wa summed up a apa dayi sa y inan ha has for and him n ahli Iton tiit freiti alia around up be blyd thinie ho can IM I 1 he here ever he upon was in I 1 have yet to find ii man mho aft said that JOB cannon by a doe anol make a promise he cannot fulfill 1 ditc itc ha tin tricks it n man to hani or A anco rind lia pine known one else ir entitled to II 11 or hait ali thing filed he will any BO at once 11 will not lot a man spend money by going to lie tell that tharo if alie alili cant immediately n hodic fr hini But mah it hafl 1 n III thing borne otlien binic llo lionell tl hii political opponents lie will iwick distort lo 10 aln out it ha i 0 att abitt a lie will hun them llyl vill not prevaricate or olor tolor t to keln hi point lie la ft fighter but he fights in clift open lie but when ho i battle will nofa seek a once in the fur allm it joe cannon in action in ft power sn lin way get off the track ilia arc and hl lm have won mm a place in plain that stilt he lasting ibo public danville an men RO in lie awn wealthy cantou in tery nd tack 1 J n binker real calel cal nl lie in anany of tin in country now and hl con widower ite i ft he hi daughter loves liia noine and ho i liappa liap pv and so bonk hi hen be i jtb old red brick houe n |
