Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1904 — BOOM FOR CANNON. [ARTICLE]

BOOM FOR CANNON.

On Floor of the House Hia Name la Mentioned for President. After a day of anger, hysteria and panic, the national House of Representatives Friday evening adopted a resolution for the appointment of a special committee of seven to investigate the so-called Bristow report accusing members of having used their influence improperly and illegally to obtain from the l'ostottice Department increased allowances for clerk hire and rentals in postoffices in their districts. The excitement reached its height when William Alden Smith of Michigan dramatically eulogized the greatness of the House of Representatives, Which had been npsuiled by llie executive branch of the government, and closed by naming a candidate of the Republican pasty for President of the United States: “A candidate who would he a foe to corruption, the girat man who hits'given thirty years of h|s life to the service of the country—Speaker Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois.” This sensational declamation was greeted with wild applause.