PERTINENT COMMENT
Pertinent Comment THE platforms of new candidates for congressional honors will teem with pledges against Cannonism and against Cannon for Speaker of the next house, but there is one way by which...
...Paul Dispatch...
...Pertinent Comment THE platforms of new candidates for congressional honors will teem with pledges against Cannonism and against Cannon for Speaker of the next house, but there is one way by which members who wish to succeed themselves may greatly enhance their chances, and that is to take the issue of Cannon out of the campaign by retiring him at once...
...And that's about the only way they can expect to place themselves on an equal footing with the large crop of new men who will not be embarrassed by any responsibility for Cannon...
...Congressmen cavorting in the home pastures bellow defiance to Cannon...
...Two years more, or, to be exact, a year and four months more of Cannon in the speaker's chair, will be too much by a year and three months from the beginning of next December...
...The insurgent Republican Congressmen are now contemplating an effort to dislodge Speaker Cannon at the next session...
...We do not believe there is anything impossible about it...
...This reflects great confidence in their growing strength as well as great and growing impatience.—The Springfield Republican...
...If there is, so much the worse for the impotent majority when the voting time comes.—The St...
...Very likely a great many of the members, if not nearly all, will try to tell us that Cannon cannot be ousted now, but must serve the term for which he has been elected, but that will depend upon how many want to got rid of him sooner and how much they desire it...
...What are the chances of their continuing obstreperous after hearing the thump of the gavel?—The Philadelphia Public Ledger...
Vol. 1 • November 1909 • No. 45
