Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1910 — “CANNONISM” NOT YET OVERTHROWN. [ARTICLE]

“CANNONISM” NOT YET OVERTHROWN.

In the struggle just ended in the house against Cannonism the Republican insurgents, when the final test came, proved their insincerity, or at least their lack of courage. It was only by overthrowing Cannon that “Cannonism” in the present congress could be wiped out. And yet when the Democrats had shown that, with the aid of the insurgents, they had power to overthrow Cannon completely by ousting him from the speakership, all of the insurgents but nine refused to join them. The other insurgents voted to keep Cannon in the speakership. Im this way Cannonism was “left on the job,” so to speak. It is to the'credit of the Democratic members that they voted to a man to depose Cahnon. If all of the so-called Republican insurgents had voted with them

the country would have seen the end of Cannonism. But only nine had the’ courage to do it. Crumpacker and Barnard, the only two republican congressmen from. Indiana, voted to keep Cannon in the speaker’s chair.

It should be borne in mind that the resolution to oust Cannon was offered by Burleson, a Democratic congressman; that every Democratic member supported the resolution; that only nine insurgents voted for it; that all of the other insurgents voted against it and for Cannon; and that in this way, over the protest of the Democrats, both Cannon and Cannonism will continue to dominate congress.