Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — JOSEPHG.CANNOH GIVESSTATEMENT [ARTICLE]

JOSEPHG.CANNOH GIVESSTATEMENT

Points to Record and Has No Apologies to Offer. PLEDGES HELP IN FALL ELECTION Says Test of Republicanism of Candidates for Congress is to Attend Caucus and Abide By the Result of the Same. Danville. 111., Aug. 19. —Speaker Cannon when first apprised of Nicholas Longworth’s repudiation of him, telegraphed from Beverly remarked: “Oh, I decline to answer any statement which Nicholas Longworth may or may not have made until I see it. I do not answer any statements which I believe to be fakes that mischievous parties make. It is time enough for me to answer the president of the United States if he has any statement to make touching on the Republicanism of the speaker of the bouse of representatives when he makes that statement under his own hand. I will not fight windmills filled by breezes blown from lungs of political or personal enemies or cowards,”

Later, when the complete LongWorth statement was submitted Mr. Cannon called his private secretary, and for the next hour they went over the matter. said: . “The legislation enacted and the record made by the Republican party during the eight years I have been speaker, speaks for itself. I have contributed what I could toward the enactment of that legislation. I have co-operated with the Republican majority in congress in the effort to put on the statute books the policies of the party, and I have no apology to make for the part I have taken' in the legislative councils of the nation. "In the present campaign as far as I am concerned I will do what I can to bring about the election of a Republican house of representatives in the Sixty-first congress and, without a Republican majority in the next house there will be no Republican speaker. * “In the event of my re-election as a member of the house I shall attend and abide by the action of the Republican caucus, and, from hl® statement, Mr. Longworth will do the same, as will every Republican member of the house. Therefore, I have no quarrel with Representative Longworth as to who shall be speaker of the next agreement touching this matter between Mr. Longworm and myself. “If any Republican candidate for congress feels that his position as a candidate on the Republican ticket would be strengthened by pledging that he will not support me. in a Re* publican caucus, I have no objection to his making the pledges. The only test that I would make as to the Republicanism of candidates for congress, is, will he, if elected, attend the Republican caucus and abide by the result of the same in the organization of _the house and the enactment of legislation in pursuance of Republican policies."