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 SPEECHES AT THE DINNER IN 
 HONOR OE JOSEPH G.CANNON 
 Washington, D.C. February 15, 
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 SPEECHES AT THE 
 DINNER IN HONOR 
 
 OF 
 
 HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON 
 
 OF ILLINOIS 
 
 AT THE HOTEL RALEIGH 
 
 WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY EVENING 
 
 FEBRUARY 15, 1913 
 
 March 1, 1913.— Ordered to be printed 
 
 WASHINGTON 
 
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 1913 
 
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 JOHN D. CREMER 
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 SPEECHES AT THE DINNER IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. 
 
 CANNON. 
 
 Mr. Humphreys of Mississippi (chairman of the committee). The 
 House will please be in order. I hope no gentleman here to-night 
 has gotten the notion into his head that this is a farewell dinner. We 
 are not here to celebrate any feast of lamentations. Through a long, 
 eventful, patriotic, and high-purposed public career, Mr. Cannon has 
 demonstrated that to lay on him the injunction to fare well would 
 be entirely superfluous. [Applause.] Those of us who have had the 
 good fortune to serve with him through a part of his career have 
 simply gathered here to testify to the high esteem and great respect 
 which we entertain for one of the choice and master spirits of the age. 
 [Applause.] 
 
 The only regrets which, under the rules under which we proceed 
 to-night, will not be declared out of order are those I am going to 
 read now. A great number of gentlemen from all parts of the 
 country have written their regrets at their inability to be with us 
 to-night. I shall read only a few of their letters: 
 
 February 12, 1913. 
 Hon. B. G. Humphreys, 
 
 House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Honorable and Dear Sir: It is with sincere regret that I find myself prevented 
 from assisting at the dinner which is being given to my good friend, Mr. Cannon, whom 
 I have known for so many years and whose sterling qualities of mind and heart I have 
 always admired. It is most fitting that Mr. Cannon's friends, who we all know are 
 many, should wish to tender him this mark of esteem and affection upon his retirement 
 from public life after so many years of faithful service to his country as Speaker in the 
 House of Representatives, an office which he filled with dignity and ability, and I beg 
 to offer my most sincere good wishes for his health and prosperity in the future. 
 
 With sentiments of the highest esteem, I beg to remain, 
 Most faithfully, yours, 
 
 James Cardinal Gibbons, 
 
 Archbishop of Baltimore. 
 
 P. S. — Although Mr. Cannon modestly confesses to be a septuagenarian, he has the 
 mental and physical vigor of a man of 50, and he may yet return to Congress and be 
 found at the same old stand. 
 
 February 3, 1913. 
 Hon. Eugene F. Kinkead, 
 
 House Building, Washington, D. C. 
 Dear Sir: I should consider it a great honor and an especial pleasure to be present 
 at the approaching public dinner of the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois. Hia 
 great services to the country, through so many years, entitle him to the finest tribute 
 of the kind that can be devised. 
 
 But I deeply regret to say that at the time named I have engagements which abso- 
 lutely forbid me to be present with you. 
 
 With all good' wishes for the success of your _ festival, and joining most heartily 
 in congratulations to your eminent guest, I remain, 
 
 Very respectfully, yours, Andrew D. White. 
 
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4 SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 January 31, 1913. 
 Hon. 15. (i. II iMi'iiHi.i a, 
 
 House of Representatives, Washington, I). C. 
 My Dear Sir: On account of my long friendship and esteem for the ex-Speaker 
 1 would be \<Ty glad to show my appreciation of his personal worth and public services 
 by my presence at the testimonial dinner to be given Mr. Cannon on the evening of 
 February r>. 1, however, expeel to be away from the city at that time, engagements 
 already made requiring mypresence elsewhere. Indomitable will, Sterling integrity, 
 and clear and comprehensive grasp and forcible presentation of public questions, all 
 intertwined with a wholesome good nature and a keen sense of humor, are traits not 
 often combined, and which attract, and endear Mr. Cannon to a wide circle of per- 
 sonal friends, and a much wider one of ardent admirers. 
 
 Very truly, yours, H, (i I 'avis. 
 
 [Telegram.] 
 
 St. Louis, Mo., February 18, 1918. 
 Hon. W. B. McKinley, M. C, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 Thanks for invitation, and very sorry I can not be present to join in temporary 
 adieu to Uncle Joe, who is sure to come back as soon as he finishes sowing his wild 
 
 oats. 
 
 Henry King, 
 
 Editor St. Louis Globe-Democrat . 
 
 And here is a letter which is written from Danville, III., by one of 
 those among whom our distinguished guest has lived and walked and 
 had his daily being: 
 
 February 3, 1913. 
 Hon. E. F. Kinkead, Washington, D. C. 
 
 RESPECTEn Sir: I deeply regret that I can not be present on the 15th instant to 
 aid in honoring my great and good friend, Hon. Joseph G. Cannon. I have known 
 and worked with him for the past 40 years. He is of the saving salt of the earth. 
 
 The people of this eighteenth congressional district have continued him in Congress 
 .for over a generation on account of his genius for common sense, his sterling integ- 
 rity, his devotion to principle, and his all-around rugged, manly, moral qualities. 
 He lives in their hearts, and they will continue to love and honor him as a private 
 citizen as faithfully as they have in official life. To us he will be forever our beloved 
 Uncle Joe. 
 
 Respectfully and sincerely, W. R. Jewell, 
 
 Chairman Republican Committee of the 
 Eighteenth Illinois Congressional District. 
 
 Now, as I said in the outset, there are to be no heavy hearts here 
 to-night. This is, in fact, a reunion of the light brigade, and mark 
 how well the sequel holds together: I have Cannon to the right of mo 
 and big guns to the left of me, and I am going to call upon one of 
 these, the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. J. Hampton Moore, to 
 take charge of this affair and to indicate who are to volley and 
 thunder hereafter. [Applause.] 
 
 THE TO ASTM ASTER. 
 
 Hon. J. Hampton Moore. Having been delegated by the committee 
 as toastmaster on this occasion, I want to announce, " under the 
 rules," that the insignia of this office consist, first, of a blue pencil, 
 which is thoroughly well understood in every well-regulated news- 
 paper office, and in legislative halls, as an admonition to be brief, to 
 cut out extraneous matter. 
 
SPEECHES IX HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 Second, a pair of scissors, which mean that if the old stories are 
 told too often we may clip them off. Those who are to speak are 
 gently admonished that after one or two repetitions of "Mr. Cannon 
 on the Wabash" the scissors will be applied: that that "virile young 
 manhood," which is sometimes referred to in public speeches, will 
 also be eliminated after the second utterance: that those who "came 
 to Congress with Mr. Cannon in 1812" need not mention it after the 
 second speech. [Applause and laughter.] 
 
 All speeches will be limited to five minutes, and it is to be hoped 
 that even the great men who are assembled here will respect this 
 rule. [Applause.] 
 
 Third, and last of the insignia, is the gavel, which means authority, 
 and it is hoped it will be respected, even though it may be wielded by 
 one who is inferior to the task and purposes of this entertainment. 
 
 To-night we are to show Mr. Cannon we love and respect him. 
 [Applause.] In deference to him and to his family it is announced 
 now that this is to be a feast, not a farewell; a symposium, not a 
 formality. You are to-night to 
 
 ' ' Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, 
 Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life." 
 
 [Applause.] 
 
 At this table sits the greatest Speaker of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives since the days of Cannon. [Applause and laughter.] 
 Over in the House we regard him, mentally and in physique, as the 
 most imposing figure that has occupied the Chair in half a dozen 
 generations. So big do we regard him that nothing short of the 
 Presidency will satisfy the most of us. [Applause.] Gentlemen, the 
 Hon. Champ Clark, of Missouri. [Applause.] 
 
 Speaker Clark. That first statement of the toastmaster about " my, 
 being the greatest Speaker since the days of Cannon " reminds me of 
 the schoolboy who said he stood next to the head of his class, and 
 his daddy inquired and found there were only two in the class. 
 [Applause and laughter.] 
 
 I am glad to be here to-night to help give a pleasant evening to one 
 of the greatest of all my predecessors in the chair of the House of 
 Representatives. [Applause.] That is what history will have to say, 
 no difference what the Members who have scrapped with him thought; 
 and they thought he was a good deal of a man, too, while he was 
 scrapping with them. [Applause.] 
 
 I am the thirty-sixth of the fine, not counting one man who, for 
 some unaccountable reason, was elected Speaker for one day. That 
 is one of the puzzles of history to me. There have been a whole lot 
 of Speakers pro tempore elected, but one man was actually elected 
 SpeaKer for one day. That was Theodore M. Pomero}*. Schu}der Col- 
 fax was going out of the office of Speaker into the office of Vice Presi- 
 dent, and all he had to do was to walk six or seven hundred feet to 
 the other end of the Capitol and be sworn in; but on the evening of 
 the 2d of March he resigned the office of Speaker. So if you 
 count Mr. Pomeroy I am the thirty-seventh of the lot. The way I 
 found out about him was because Congress passed a law authorizing 
 the painting of oil portraits of all the Speakers to be placed in the 
 lobby of the House: and Mr. Pomeroy's grandson wrote to me and 
 
6 SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 wan led to know if he came in on one of those $500 portraits up there. 
 So 1 got a piece of history that I was not fishing for. 
 
 There have been live or six great Speakers who have had a domi- 
 nating spirit and everything greased for them, and good machines at 
 their hands, and they made great reputations; but no man will 
 ever make a great reputation in that chair unless lie is lavishly 
 endowed with common sense [applause]; because, after all, that is 
 all there is to it. And of all the men I have met in my goings to and 
 fro, and tabernacling in the flesh, I write Uncle Joe down as one of 
 the most thoroughly common-sense men that ever came down the 
 congressional pike. [Applause.] 
 
 I do not take much stock in farewell dinners, or funerals, or wed- 
 dings. I had just about as lief go to a funeral as a wedding, with 
 the exception of my own. Uncle Joe goes; but I am not sure but 
 that like Cataline, "he goes, but he returns." [Applause and laugh- 
 ter.] That would be the only resemblance I ever heard of between 
 the two. [Applause.] 
 
 The man who has never been in the Army can never have any 
 conception of the feeling which men have for one another who have 
 fought side by side and shoulder to shoulder in the face of death; 
 but next to that I think the fellow feeling between men who fight in 
 the House of Representatives — because that is where the fighting is 
 done — is next to the fellow feeling of having fought in the army 
 together; and the men who fight the hardest against each other 
 have the greatest respect for each other. 
 
 I have not the slightest idea that the next two years are going to 
 be dull or heavy on Uncle Joe's hands. He knows how to entertain 
 himself, and he knows how to entertain others. [Laughter.] There 
 is one thing I have been trying to get him to do. He has never 
 promised me to do it. He owes it to the people of the United States 
 in general and to the coming Congresses in particular to write a book 
 of reminiscences. [Applause.] Among his other qualities there is 
 not a man within my acquaintance which is somewhat extensive, 
 who can beat him telling an anecdote or a reminiscence. He holds 
 the belt, as a prizefighter would say, for length of service in the 
 House of Representatives. In 124 years no man has succeeded in 
 serving in that House 40 years. Mr. Gannon has served 38, and if 
 he had not been beaten once he would be serving his fortieth year. 
 If I had not been beaten once I would be serving my twentieth. It 
 does not hurt much to get beat. [Applause.] The man who served 
 the longest in the two Houses of Congress put together was Senator 
 Justin Smith Morrill, of Vermont. He served 43£ years in the two 
 Houses of Congress. 
 
 When I came here first then' was a superstition that no man ever 
 would serve 30 years in the House. They would get past 29 — two or 
 three of them did — but they would die before they reached the thir- 
 tieth year, and Judge Holman, of Indiana was the first man who ever 
 broke the hoodoo. [Laughter.] Now, the 40 years that Uncle Joe 
 has been in public life, including the time he was circuit attorney in 
 Illinois, about the time Lincoln was elected President, or a little after, 
 have brought him into contact, first and last, with nearly every promi- 
 nent man in the United States and with a greal many who are not 
 in the United States, and if he can write .-is well as he can talk his 
 
SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 7 
 
 reminiscences would make a book that would discount Boswell's 
 Life of Johnson, because he has known better men and greater men 
 and more of them. . 
 
 Now, I am not going to detain this audience under the nve-minute 
 rule, but I will say that after 18 years of battling with Uncle Joe I 
 wish for him prosperity, happiness, and length of days. [Prolonged 
 applause.] 
 
 SENATOR ELIHU ROOT. 
 
 Toastmaster Moore. There is no partisanship in this meeting. All 
 think alike to-night in honor of our guest. You know there is not so 
 much credit in presiding over a national convention, such as that at 
 Baltimore, that nominates a candidate for President who is elected, 
 but there is vast credit due to the man who presides over a convention 
 at Chicago that nominates a candidate for President who is not 
 elected. [Laughter and applause.] And the man who presided over 
 that great convention and who is entitled to all the honors that result 
 therefrom [laughter] is the distinguished Senator from New York 
 Elihu Root, whom I now have the pleasure of presenting. [Applause.] 
 Senator Hoot. Mr. Toastmaster, Mr. Chairman, and my dear Uncle 
 Joseph, I am glad to congratulate you upon your approaching vaca- 
 tion. If any man in this world, by reason of truly religious service, 
 is entitled to a sabbatical year, you are entitled to it after this long 
 period of public service. [Applause.] 
 
 I know that it is only a vacation, because if the people ol the lJan- 
 ville district do not get over their brief aberration within two years, 
 you have only to come to New York and I will turn over to you a 
 place in the other coordinate branch of the legislative department ol 
 the Government where you can exercise the salutary mfluence by 
 which you have made the House of Representatives the great and 
 efficient body that it is. • [Applause.] 
 
 I am glad to congratulate you, not only because there are a thousand 
 reminiscences that make me feel kindly to you, as men who have 
 fought together do feel toward each other, but because you are real. 
 (Cries of "Good," and prolonged applause.] 
 
 There is nothing in public life, I think, of which a man gets more 
 tired than of lving and humbug. [Applause.] It is very hard for all 
 of us to talk to people from a public stage as we talk to each other. 
 It is very hard for all of us. to tell the truth when we are talking to 
 the people. It is verv hard for all of us to tell the truth when we think 
 it will hurt us. It is very hard for all of us to keep our promises. 
 But in the world of humbug, I am glad to do honor to a man who has 
 always had the courage of his convictions [cheers and applause], the 
 courage to say what 'he believes, to say nothing that he does not 
 believe [applause], and to act according to his convictions. 
 
 I remember some years ago saying that if Uncle Joe were not so 
 old, nothing on earth could keep him from being nominated for the 
 Presidency— and it was true. All of a sudden came along a situa- 
 tion in which he was called upon to act at the behest of great and 
 powerful influence, and he refused, because he did not think it would 
 be right to do it; and then was begun the cry of "Cannonism." He 
 has outlived it. I would like to hold up for the contemplation of 
 the people of the United States the example of this man, who dared 
 
8 SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 to become unpopular by doing what he believed to be his duty and 
 who lias outlived it. [Applause.] 
 
 There is another reason why I am glad to do you honor — because 
 you stand for all the people of the United States. Your own experi- 
 ence in Congress, the variety of positions you have held, your long 
 service as chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, called upon 
 to consider the interests of every part of the country, your long serv- 
 ice as Speaker of the House, have made you the representative not 
 alone of die Danville district. I > 1 1 1 of the people of the United States. 
 [Applause.] 
 
 Let me say to yon, my friends in the Senate and the House who 
 are here, that the greal reason why the Executive is able to com- 
 mand the sympathy of the people of the United States against Con- 
 gress so frequently is that the people think we are representing pur 
 selfish local interests, while he represents the whole people; and for 
 the dignity, the influence, and tne power of the legislative branch 
 of the United States Government it is well for us to do honor to 
 the man who represents not alone his own district but all the people 
 of the country. [Applause.] 
 
 I am glad to do yon honor for another reason — because looking 
 about nie and seeing Standpatters and Progressives and Democrats 
 of all shades and stripes of opinion. I see in this meeting that we are 
 not becoming Mexicanizcd: I see in the fact that we all do honor to 
 the hardest hitter, to the boldest Speaker, to the man who has never 
 hesitated to express and stand by his opinions, however they might 
 differ from the opinions of others, I see in this general concurrence 
 of honor and affection for him. that still underlying all the storm 
 and stress of American politics is the genuine American spirit of 
 brotherhood toward all Americans. [Prolonged applause.] 
 
 Toastmaster Moore. Sixty-eight years ago to-day, upon a farm in 
 Oneida County, N. Y., was brought into this world a little boy, who 
 grew up to be a lawyer ; being appointed subsequently to the President's 
 Cabinet; he became a great Secretary of War, the pacificator of the 
 Latin- American Republics; is now a Senator of the United States, 
 who, in the very acme of his career, upon his birthday, this very night, 
 delivered the oration you heard a few moments ago. [Applause.] 
 Without rising will you drink to the health of Senator Root, and as you 
 do so, salute him by name. [Applause and cries of ''Root, Root. ''J 
 
 There will now be an innovation by a Shakespearean scholar of note 
 in Washington. Mr. Henry L. West, of the Gridiron Club. 
 
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 THE SEVEN AGES OF CANNON. 
 
 The lights were extinguished and upon a screen were thrown a series 
 of lantern slide portraits of Mr. Cannon, while Mr. West, amidst 
 laughter and applause, recited the following: 
 
 All the world's a stage, 
 And all the men and women merely players, 
 Making their exits and their entrances, 
 And one man in his time plays many parts, 
 His acts being seven ages. First, the infant 
 Not muling and puking in his nurse's arms, 
 But strong and sturdy from his very birth, 
 Full of strange oaths and bearded like a pard; 
 Drawing his sustenance from a big. black cigar, 
 And not from any bottle. Next the schoolboy 
 Studying the rules which he himself hath writ. 
 His favorite book a work on Parliamentary Law 
 Compiled by Asher Hinds. Then a country lawyer, 
 Wearing a black slouch hat and long frock coat, 
 His fees unfortunately small and his clients just as few 
 As there will be Republicans in the next House. 
 Then seeking reputation at the ballot box, 
 He next becomes A member of the house. 
 Disbursing offices and garden seeds, 
 And placing Danville, Illinois, upon the map. 
 Behold him sitting at his office desk, 
 Giving an imitation of a man at work. 
 Then, as the speaker of the house the gavel holds, 
 An autocrat, a law unto himself, yet ruling well. 
 The sixth stage is the guest of honor eA'erywhere. 
 A welcome guest where'er good fellowship 
 Binds human hearts as it does here to-night. 
 And "in the last analysis" we see him as himself. 
 A man whose rugged frame doth laugh to scorn 
 The very god of time. Upon his head 
 The burdens of the years do lightly press. 
 Undaunted by defeat and destined yet 
 To swing the battle axe and crack some heads. 
 To him we do not say "farewell" but "We will see you later." 
 Sans job, sans salary, sans everything — but friends. 
 
 PLEASANTRIES FROM THE CHAIR. 
 
 Toastmaster Moore. I have been requested to ask if William B. 
 McKinley is in the hall. If lie is, will he kindly listen ? The waiters 
 will subside for a moment. Mr. McKinley will kindly rise to his feet, 
 And is Mr. Martin B. Madden in the hall? If so, will he rise? And 
 Mr. Ira C. Copley — is he in the hall ( Now, gentlemen, you look upon 
 the spectacle of the three millionaires of Illinois. [Laughter and 
 applause.] The richest of them is Mr. Copley. All of them are on 
 the dinner committee, and have requested that they be not called 
 upon, with the single exception of Mr. Martin B. Madden, who will 
 not be. [Laughter.] 
 
 I have also been asked to inquire if the Hon. James R. Mann is in 
 the hall. If so, will he kindly rise ( [Applause and cries of "Mann!" 
 "Mann!"] I ask you all to gaze upon this fine figure standing out 
 against the background of festive smilax. He is the leader of the 
 Republican minority in the House. [Applause.] While in Porto 
 Rico some time ago, a delegate in the assembly there shook hands 
 with Mr. Mann and said, "Sir, I know you well. I have read every 
 one of your speeches." [Laughter.] Thereupon the late Vice Presi- 
 
10 SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 lent of the United States, Mr. Sherman, said "You must be the 
 busiest manon the island." [Laughter.] [After a pause.] It is noli 
 
 >ften, gentlemen, thai a mere tyro in these matters has an oppor- 
 tunitj to bold up bis boss. Mr. Mann, your time has expired. [Pro- 
 longed laughter and applause.] j 
 
 REPRESENTATIVE SAMUEL W. MCCALL. 
 
 Gentlemen, the iron beel of the Chair will be used in enforcing the' 
 rules [laughter], and you will respect them, of course. We have at* 
 •In- bead table to-night tin- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the 1 
 United States, hut the tradition which holds with respect to that! 
 ►ffice forbids him to speak on an occasion of this kind. In his stead, 
 happily, we have one who combines not only the judicial qualities, 
 hut also the legislative and executive, a leader of the House of Rep- 
 and a scholar in politics, the Hon. Samuel W. McCall, 
 of Massachusetts. [Applause.] 
 
 Mr. Mi (all. Mr. President, you have given me a rather large 
 contract to fill, to respond for the Chief Justice and associate justices 
 and the executive and legislative departments of the Government. 
 It is very < i \ ident that this occasion is not taking on the appearance 
 of obsequies [laughter]; that it is not celebrating or commemorating' 
 the passing of a figure. It is not commemorating the ending of a. 
 career. It seoms by common consent to be an "au revoir" dinner. 
 There Beems to be the impression that the public career of Uncle Joe 
 
 nol ended. In the first place he has a passion for the public 
 service, an instincl for it; in the next place he has the spirit of' 
 unquenchable youth; and in the next he has a constituency that 
 is devoted to him, and that has pouted only twice in 40 j^ears. It 
 is inevitable, therefore, with all these qualities of youth and instinct,! 
 and the devotion of his constituency, that the Sixty-fourth Congress . 
 will see him hack again in Washington. [Applause.] 
 
 He is a man who has the affection of his political opponents as well as 
 of his political friends. I think there has been no time since I have* 
 served in Washington that he has not been the most popular man on 
 both sides of the House. He is most effective in the ordinary busi- 
 of the House, and be easily ri es to great occasions, as he did three' 1 
 »o at the height of the unpleasantness, when, after a three days! 
 battle, whan the House was charged with excitement, when men had 
 come to witness the contest from all over the country, he rose, even as 
 admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of ahem. 
 
 Smce be came here, from the year 1872 to the present time, he has] 
 been associated with some of the greatest men who have ever served in 
 Umgress, from Blaine and Garfield to Reel and McKinley, and ho has 
 shown nimsell then' fit companion. We are commemorating to-night 
 
 ■ ■ uw « ..t .-..«. »ing l heir respect 
 
 for a statesman who is thoroughly human, who affects no dignity, 
 and does nol belong to what is called the "frock-coat" school/a 
 man of real ability, of genuine worth, and of sterling honesty, who 
 9 scorned to secure the best interests of the whole country and is 
 brave to go only where his best judgment leads -I say we do ourselves 
 nonor to-night in honoring Uncle Joe Cannon. [Prolonged applause.] 
 
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 NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS STUNT. 
 
 At the conclusion of Mr. McCall's address President Taft entered 
 le hall and was escorted to his seat at the table by Chairman Hum- 
 hreys. When the applause that greeted the President, as he shook 
 inds with Mr. Cannon, had subsided, the toastmaster called atten- 
 on to ''the noise" proceeding from "the press gallery." "The 
 :ess gallery ' ' on this occasion chanced to be the music balcony above 
 Le diners at the rear of the hall facing the guests' table. It had 
 3en preempted for the moment by a group of Mr. Cannon's news- 
 iper friends, prepared to enact an up-to-date skit after the fashion 
 ! the Gridiron and National Press Clubs. After they had taken the 
 usicians' places and organized a "House press gallery," the seven 
 members of the party were found in the following characters : 
 
 Cub Reporter, E. C. Snyder, Omaha Bee. 
 
 First Correspondent, E. B. Clark, Chicago Evening Post. 
 
 Second Correspondent, R. H. Patchin, Mew York Herald. 
 
 Third Correspondent, George Miller, Detroit News. 
 
 Fourth Correspondent, Oswald F. Schuette, Chicago Inter-Ocean. 
 
 Fifth Correspondent, Gus J. Karger, Cincinnati Times Star. 
 
 Sixth Correspondent, Theodore Tiller, Munsey newspapers. 
 
 "You gentlemen of the press must observe the rules," said the 
 •astmaster, directing his attention to the "gallery." 
 
 "We have a right here," said the Cub Reporter, promptly. 
 
 "The Fourth Estate is powerful and inspiring, but it does not yet 
 mtrol the House," said the toastmaster. "You occupy your pres- 
 lt high position by courtesy, and you must be in order." 
 
 "But, Mr. Speaker, we represent the great newspapers; they want 
 
 ► be heard." answered the Cub Reporter. 
 
 "Well, gentlemen," said the toastmaster, "you know very well 
 lis is not debatable. Moreover, the men who own the Fourth 
 state and pay you your enormous salaries are here, witnesses to 
 lis exhibition — warm friends of Mr. Cannon, like Herman Ridder 
 id Frank A. Munsey and John A. Sleicher and Gen. Felix Agnus 
 id Rudolph Kauffmann and Ira E. Bennett and John T. Suter, 
 resident of the National Press Club. Do you think you can afford 
 
 > go on under these circumstances?" 
 
 "Yes; we do," responded the "press gallery" spokesman. 
 "Very well," said the toastmaster. "You can proceed at your 
 mi risk." 
 
 AS SEEN FROM THE " PRESS GALLERY." 
 
 Then ensued the following colloquialisms, every question and 
 iswer, with their good-natured raillery, being acknowledged with 
 iplause from the floor: 
 
 Cub Reporter. Who's that cute looking little man down there? 
 
 First Correspondent. Oh, that's Perry Belmont. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Is he a Member of the House ? 
 
 First Correspondent. No; but he'd like to be now, because nobody 
 in touch him for a campaign contribution. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Who's that down there that looks like Alexander 
 amilton ? 
 
 Second Correspondent. That's Jeff Levy. He's just hocked his 
 50,000 overcoat to Marty Littleton to lift the mortgage on Monticello. 
 
12 SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Who's the chap down there close to that champagne 
 bottle ? 
 
 Third ( Correspondent. He's a typical Congressman — Webb, of North 
 Carolina. lie's just passed a bill prohibiting shipment of liquor into 
 dry States. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Why, that's just the kind of States that need liquor. 
 
 Third Correspondent. I know it is — that's why I say Webb is a 
 typical Congressman. 
 
 Cub Reporter. That interstate law is going to prove a hardship, 
 isn't it '. 
 
 Third Correspondent. I should say so. It'll keep a lot of Conexms- 
 men from leaving Washington for the rest of tneir lives. There's 
 Sherwood, and Wilson, and old Taylor, and Black Label, and Green 
 River, and old Pepper, and Burke's Stout, and Lewis 66 — if any of 
 them try to go from one State to another under this new law they'll 
 be pinched. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Who's that bald-headed man? 
 
 Fourth Correspondent. McKinley, of Illinois. He was conductor of 
 the Taft campaign, but he slipped his trolley. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Why is Vic. Berger not here ? They tell me he's a big 
 man. 
 
 Fifth Correspondent. I should say he is big; he's a whole party by 
 himself. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Any relation to Vic. Murdock ? 
 
 Fifth Correspondent. Blood brothers, politically speaking. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Where's Vic. Berger now? 
 
 Fifth Correspondent. He's out in a telephone booth holding a caucus 
 with himself. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Who's that actor over there ? 
 
 Sixth Correspondent. That's no actor. That's Chief Justice White. 
 He evidently doesn't believe in the recall for Uncle Joe. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Well, anyhow, that chap there's an actor. I saw him 
 playing "Uncle Tom" once. 
 
 First Correspondent. You may have seen him play Uncle Tom ; but 
 he's a good actor. That's the guy that tried to Kahn the Government 
 out of $2,000,000 for the San Francisco Fair. 
 
 Cub Reporter. By George, there's Bourke Cockran. Is he still an 
 American ? 
 
 Second Correspondent. Of course, he's an American. 
 
 ( 'lib Reporter. I thought maybe he had changed over to be a French- 
 man, or a German, or something. What side is he on now { 
 
 Second Correspondent. I don't know; but whatever side it is. it's 
 the wrong side. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Who's that sad-looking man down there '. 
 
 Third Correspondent. That's Frank Munsey. 
 
 Cub Reporter. That holding-party scheme of his was a whale of an 
 idea. 
 
 Third Correspondent. Yes; but T. K. was too big a .Jonah. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Do you know what he's doing here? 
 
 Third Correspondent. Xo; but I suspect he's trying to buy the Con- 
 gressional Record to add to his Bull Moose string. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Isn't that Nick Longworth % 
 
 Fourth Correspondent. Sure. Hear what Stanley Bow die said about 
 him i "God scalped him. hut 1 skinned him." 
 
SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 13 
 
 Cub Reporter. That's Champ Clark, isn't it? Do you think he will 
 ever be President ? 
 
 Fifth Correspondent. Well, he's a hopeless optimist. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Say, who's that sedate chap ? 
 
 Sixth Correspondent. Oh, that's Asher Hinds. He'll make a good 
 Congressman when he learns the rules. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Who's that young fellow with the beard ? 
 
 First Correspondent. That's Shelby M. Cullom. His statue in 
 Memorial Park looks like Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 Cub Reporter. I thought that was a statue of Joe Cannon. 
 
 Second Correspondent. Joe Cannon doesn't need any monuments in 
 Washington, not with all those public buildings he's got out in Dan- 
 ville. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Those are three fine-looking men, who are they? 
 
 Third Correspondent. They are Weeks, McCall, and Lawrence, of 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Are they leaving the House for good ? 
 
 Third Correspondent. Yes; they're leaving the House, but it won't 
 do the House any good. 
 
 Cub Reporter. "What'll McCall do now? 
 
 Third Correspondent. Write Chapter II of the Life of Grant that 
 he began in 1S76. 
 
 Cub Reporter. What's become of the old-time sidewhiskers that 
 looked like reindeer moss '? 
 
 Fourth Correspondent. Redfield has 'em. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Who's that moonfaced fellow over by the water 
 bottle ? 
 
 Fourth Correspondent. That's Cousin Bob Broussard. He's just 
 been elected to the Senate. 
 
 Cub Reporter. What did they elect him for? 
 
 Fourth Correspondent. To tell those Senators funny stories so they'll 
 forget to put sugar on the free list. 
 
 Cub Reporter. What's that man down there looking for j 
 
 Fifth Correspondent. Oh, that's John D wight. He's lost the snap- 
 per off his whip. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Somebody down there has an awful cough. 
 
 Sixth Correspondent. Yes; that's Uncle Ike Stephenson. He caught 
 cold the other day from a $1,500,000 draft. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Does he cough much ? 
 
 Sixth Correspondent. Every time he wants to get elected he 
 coughs. 
 
 Cub Reporter. What job is Frank Hitchcock going to hold under the 
 new administration ? 
 
 First Correspondent. I don't know — he hasn't told Wilson yet. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Do you think the Government could get along with- 
 out Frank ? 
 
 First Correspondent. I don't know — the experiment has never been 
 tried. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Is Tama Jim Wilson under the civil service ? 
 
 Second Correspondent. No ; he's above it. 
 
 Cub Reporter. There's Chairman Pujo, of the Untermyer Committee . 
 Is he a lawyer ? 
 
 Third Correspondent. No; he's a throat specialist. 
 
 Cub Reporter. How did the Gold Brick Twins get in here ? 
 
14 SPEECHES IN HONOK OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 Fourth Correspondent. They are not the Gold Brick Twins; they are 
 Gen. Grosvenor and Pete Hepburn. 
 
 Cub Reporter. When did they first come to Congress ? 
 
 Fourth Correspondent. I don't know; I've only been around the 
 Capitol since 1856. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Is that Reed Smooth over there ? 
 
 Fifth Correspondent. Smoot; not Smooth. 
 
 Cub Reporter. What's he up to ? 
 
 Fifth Correspondent. He's trying to get an appropriation for a navy 
 yard at Salt Lake. 
 
 Cub Reporter. He's a Mormon, isn't he? 
 
 Fifth Correspondent. He used to be; but he's a Presbyterian now. 
 
 Cub Reporter. There's Underwood. Is he to be the fair-haired boy 
 of the new administration? 
 
 Sixth Correspondent. Yes, or the goat. If he makes good, Wilson 
 gets the credit, and if he fails, he gets the blame. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Who's that fellow all shot to pieces over there ? 
 
 First Correspondent. That's Jim Tawney; fatally wounded at the 
 battle of Winona. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Is Jim Mann talking again, or yet? 
 
 Fourth Correspondent. Both. 
 
 Cub Reporter. What's the matter with Sereno Payne? 
 
 Fifth Correspondent. He took an overdose of Aldrich. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Who is that velvety-looking man? 
 
 Sixth Correspondent. Littauer, of New York, member of the Old 
 Guard. 
 
 Cub Reporter. What does he guard ? 
 
 Sixth Correspondent. Gloves. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Is that Doc Bartholdt, the great advocate of peace? 
 
 First Correspondent. Yes; peace and beer. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Who's that stranger ? 
 
 Second Correspondent. Gov. Frank Black, of New York. 
 
 Cub Reporter. What's he done? 
 
 Second Correspondent. He nominated T. R. for the Presidency, 
 and then friendship ceased. 
 
 Cub Reporter. What's he done since ? 
 
 Second Correspondent. Kept his mouth shut and made a million 
 dollars. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Who do you think is the greatest constitutional 
 lawyer in the country — Joe Bailey or Bartlett of Georgia ? 
 
 Third Correspondent. I don't know — my choice is Clayton of Ala- 
 bama, or Judge Pugh of the police court. 
 
 Cub Reporter. What made Bailey leave the Senate? 
 
 Third Correspondent. Some lowbrow put a split infinitive in an 
 amendment to the Constitution and it broke his heart. 
 
 Cub Reporter. J. Hampton Moore, of Pennsylvania, is a great man, 
 isn't he? 
 
 Fourth Correspondent. Say, when was Moore talking to you ? 
 
 Cub Reporter. What is John Sharp Williams's specialty? 
 
 Fifth Correspondent. John Sharp Williams. 
 
 Cub Reporter. What do you think was the greatest piece of bad 
 luck Taf t ever had ? 
 
 Sixth Correspondent. Not finding Charlie Hilles sooner; and the 
 words choke me. 
 
SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 15 
 
 Cub Reporter. You have been writing politics at the Capitol for a 
 good many years, haven't you? 
 
 First Correspondent. More years than I can remember. 
 
 Cub Reporter. All things considered, who is the greatest statesman 
 in the House ? 
 
 First Correspondent. Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois. 
 
 Cub Reporter. What legislation did Cannon ever put on the statute 
 books? 
 
 First Correspondent. I can't think of any off-hand. 
 
 Cub Reporter. What are some of the historic remarks he has uttered 
 that will go thundering down the ages ? 
 
 First Correspondent. "In the last analysis" and "Virile young 
 manhood." 
 
 Cub Reporter. Any others ? 
 
 First Correspondent. "The pendulum will swing back." 
 
 Cub Reporter. Any others ? 
 
 First Correspondent. "The majority can do anything." 
 
 Second Correspondent. Yes; I remember one occasion when it did. 
 
 First Correspondent. "Ninety millions of people" is another famous 
 phrase. 
 
 Cub Reporter. Any others ? 
 
 Sixth Correspondent. "To hell with the insurgents." 
 
 A voice. The House stands adjourned till 12 o'clock to-morrow. 
 
 Correspondents. Let's beat it. 
 
 [Prolonged laughter and applause.] 
 
 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 Toastmaster Moore. Though the evening is still young, we have 
 much yet to do and may not delay. 
 
 Gentlemen, to be the first amongst a hundred million people 
 of the temper and intelligence of those of the United States is the 
 greatest honor on earth. "All the world loves a lover," and all the 
 world esteems a good loser. 
 
 I announce the President of the United States. [Great applause.] 
 
 The President. I\*r. Chairman, Mr. Toastmaster, and gentle- 
 men, I have come here to-night to express two feelings: One of 
 sympathy with the gentleman who professes to be about to go out 
 of public life at the same time that I am a dissolving view [laughter], 
 and to show by coming here how profoundly I respect him as a 
 great American who, by many decades of disinterested patriotic 
 service, has earned the verdict of "well done" from his countrymen, 
 [Applause.] 
 
 I do not feel very old, and I am not very old, but I think there 
 are few men present at this meeting who are as old in the public 
 service as I am, with reference to association with Uncle Joe. I 
 was here 22 years ago to interview him on behalf of the Depart- 
 ment of Justice about the increase of what I regarded as needed 
 appropriations. I have had ever since a good deal of experience 
 with chairmen of appropriations committees, and I am bound to 
 say that the abruptness and the firmness and the somewhat inelegant 
 expressions that I have heard in modern days had their counter- 
 part in those early days of the Republic. [Laughter.] 
 
16 SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 Another thing that moves me to come here is that I believe 
 thai Uncle Joe Cannon and I have passed through something of the 
 same storm of muckraking and misrepresentation [applause], that 
 We arc able to look back upon it all with the philosophy and calm 
 hope that it will fall away as for nothing [applause], and that what 
 has been done in our public careers will be subjected to just exam- 
 ination and criticism, away from the lurid light of headlines, in the 
 cold but careful and fair examination of the hist >rian. [Applause.] 
 
 I observe that by those who sat above us and who selected the 
 defects most conspicuous or supposed to be most conspicuous in us, 
 the inquiry was made as to what statute Uncle Joe Cannon's name 
 Was attached. That is one of the unfair questions that men will 
 put who do not understand what goes to make up a great Govern- 
 ment and what goes to make up a great public service. The men 
 who are looking about and laboring to find subjects matter and 
 statutes with which their names may be connected, in order that 
 they may claim in history the authorship of progress, are not the 
 men who make the progress hi this country. [Loud applause.] 
 
 The conscientious struggle which the chairman of the Appro- 
 priations Committee has to make in Congress — and it is conscien- 
 tious — to keep down the expenditures within the possible revenues 
 is a labor that no one can realize except those who come into close 
 contact with the discharge of that responsibility. They are known 
 for the time being as the heads of the Appropriations Committees, 
 but the appropriation bills do not carry their names. The character 
 of the appropriation bills is not understood by the public, so that these 
 bills can not be referred to as a basis of a great parliamentary repu- 
 tation. And yet the fact is that in that committee harder and 
 more conscientious work is done than in any other committee in 
 Congress. Its members are struggling constantly against the human 
 nature of their fellows, they are standing up against that which they 
 have to recognize as the weakness of man, and they are not receiving 
 any meed of praise from anybody,.. because everybody is against 
 them for opposing appropriations — until after the session is over, 
 and then everybody criticizes them because of the largeness of the 
 appropriations. [Laughter.] 
 
 I have referred to a part of Uncle Joe's service in Congress. The 
 other part I have had more familiarity with. As Speaker of the 
 House, under the system which then prevailed, he had to control the 
 legislation, he had to lead the majority, and had much influence 
 with reference to the bills which were selected for consideration and 
 passage. For that work the country owes him a debt of great gratitude. 
 The history of the Republican Party while he was Speaker is largely 
 a history of the statutes that he discriminated in favor of and the 
 defeat of the statutes that he discriminated against. [Applause.] 
 If that record is honorable to the party and honorable to the country, 
 to Joseph G. Cannon is largely due the credit. At times we are all 
 dazed — at least I am — with the dreadfully difficult work that the 
 Judge of All will have to do in determining the merits of the indi- 
 viduals who will come before Him when we all pass in review on the 
 last day of judgment. As applied to the world at large, to ordinary 
 communities, that task seems difficult enough; but when it comes to 
 awarding merit with reference to public men at Washington, it is a 
 difficulty that seems insurmountable. In trving to sift out the 
 
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 reward that is due and the condemnation that is due, it needs a 
 close knowledge of how legislation is introduced, how it is consid- 
 ered, and how it is ultimately passed. 
 
 The methods of Uncle Joe with reference to the government of the 
 House of Representatives at times have been severely condemned, 
 and then they have been vindicated by the action of his opponents 
 in adopting the same course, and in coming around to the same neces- 
 sity that he recognized earlier, to wit, that you must have responsi- 
 bility lodged somewhere when you have to manage 300 men on either 
 side of the House of Representatives. [Applause.] 
 
 My friends, I have to go. I would be delighted to stay, just to se? 
 what can be said of a man in his own presence. This is a great and 
 historic dinner, and I am glad to have had an opportunity to be here, 
 for many reasons. The chief one is to testify to my profound admira- 
 tion for one of the greatest characters in American political life, and 
 for a man to whom the people of this country are indebted in a way 
 which they now but little realize. But when he shall have passed 
 away, the merit of his work will show itself to them and to his- 
 torians generally. [Applause.] He says he is going away and not 
 coming back. I hope that is not true, and I do not believe it is true. 
 I think that when he goes out to that district and walks up and down 
 Vermillion County, and finds how many people are sorry they did 
 not vote for him at this last election, the old warhorse will again 
 scent the battle from afar, and he will come here again to be with 
 those who are here, to show them again the old traditions of the 
 Republican Party when it was in power and in usefulness. [Ap- 
 plause.] 
 
 I thank you for listening to me, and I close with the sentiment, 
 "God bless- that patriotic American, Uncle Joe Cannon." [Applause.] 
 
 Those present then gave three cheers for the President of the 
 United States. 
 
 MR. UNDERWOOD OF ALABAMA. 
 
 Toastmaster Moore. Upon one brilliant young man of this Nation 
 has been placed a momentous responsibility. It is his duty, in order 
 that the great national administration may be justified, to see to it 
 that all prices shall be lowered and all wages shall be raised. [Laugh- 
 ter.] He has the sympathy of Republicans and Democrats alike. 
 There is a heartiness in the wish for the success of Oscar W. Under- 
 wood, of Alabama. [Prolonged applause.] 
 
 Mr. Underwood. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Toastmaster, Uncle Joe, and 
 my fellow guests, I shall not allow our toastmaster to tempt me to 
 wade in stormy waters. [Laughter.] The dove of peace is sailing 
 over the political lines to-night, and I am reminded by that fact that 
 it was the real soldiers, not the coffee coolers or deserters, who swapped 
 their tobacco across the lines in times of real warfare. [Applause.] 
 Our guest of honor has for 40 years been a real political warrior, and 
 he has sometimes swapped tobacco across the line. [Applause.] 
 
 I am not going to attempt to make a speech to-night, but I am 
 going to tell a story of Uncle Joe, which I have no doubt he has for- 
 gotten, though I have not, because in those days he was a commander 
 in the political lines and I was only a private in the rear ranks. An 
 H. Doc. 1445, 62-3 2 
 
18 SPEECHES IN E0N0B OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 appropriation was needed to entertain distinguished guests. We 
 lived ;it the same hotel together, and although we differed in politics 
 greatly, Uncle Joe and I had been close friends for many years. 
 When this subject of a needful appropriation was becconing urgent, 
 
 Uncle Joe one night invited me to take a stroll. In those days there 
 were no houses out at Sheridan Circle; there was nothing there but a 
 circle. This was a cold, moonlight night, and we walked out to 
 Sheridan Circle, and then Uncle Joe invited me to take a seat on the 
 curbing, and we got down to business, lie said "My boy, you have 
 heard of the trouble we have been having over the proper entertain- 
 ment of distinguished visitors. 1 have been thinking this thing over, 
 and to-morrow afternoon, when 'most everybody has gone home 
 [laughter], and the House is thin, if I get up and ask unanimous 
 consent that an appropriation might pass for the purpose of enter- 
 taining these distinguished guests, and you vigorously oppose it at 
 first and then allow me to convince you, we might get it through. 
 [Laughter.] So Uncle Joe and 1 swapped tobacco in that case. 
 [Applause.] 
 
 Now, all 1 have to say is this: We have had great men in Congress, 
 and Uncle Joe is one of the greatest. He has never swapped tobacco 
 across the line for his own benefit. [Applause.] He has always been 
 willing to swap tobacco across the line for the glory and the honor of 
 our great Republic, and he has left an example that we may all follow. 
 [Applause.] It gives me sincere pleasure to be here to-night and do 
 honor to him, one of the great men who will live in the history of our 
 country. [Applause.] 
 
 FEATURED IN CARTOON AND SONG. 
 
 The Toastmaster. Even while we are eating, gentlemen, we shall 
 continue. Go on and enjoy yourselves. Meanwhile that famous car- 
 toonist of the New York World, Mr. Macauley, and the equally famous 
 Bcrryman, our popular cartoonist of Washington [applause], will un- 
 dertake to keep your minds busy. They will give pictorial impres- 
 sions of Mr. Cannon from either end of the hall. 
 
 [After Messrs. Berryman and Macauley had amused the audience 
 with their rapidly drawn cartoons the toastmaster continued:] 
 
 We have shown you that even in the Senate and House of Repre- 
 sentatives, unofficially met, there may be two rings to a circus, and 
 that both ends may be entertained at the same time. We now pro- 
 pose, through Mr. John Corwin, of the Gridiron Club, to present a 
 real circus. AVhile Mr. Corwin is preparing to present his ''circus," I 
 will introduce our old friend, the former chairman of the Appropria- 
 tions Committee, Hon. James A. Tawney, of Minnesota, for a song: 
 
 Mr. Tawney led in singing "Dear Old Uncle Joe," an improvisa- 
 tion of "It Was My Last Cigar." 
 
 -KXATOR ELECT OLLIE M. JAMES. 
 
 Toastmaster Moore. We are again on our native heath, back to 
 the field of oratory. Men may preside over conventions which 
 nominate a candidate for the Presidency who is not elected, and 
 men may also preside over a convention at Baltimore which nomi- 
 nates a President who is elected, and it is entirely within their power 
 
SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 19 
 
 and their province on an occasion like this to say just who that 
 President will appoint to his Cabinet. This duty has been assigned 
 to the gentleman from Kentucky, who has recently been sent to the 
 Senate — Mr. Ollie M. James. [Applause.] 
 
 Mr. James. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Toastmaster, fellow hosts, and our 
 distinguished guest, Uncle Joe, I, too, have seen Uncle Joe swap 
 "terbacker" across the line, and I never saw him cheated yet. 
 [Laughter.] lie generally got some to boot. [Laughter.] 
 
 I am happy to join with the members of all the parties in paying 
 tribute to our distinguished guest of honor, the Hon. Joseph G. 
 Cannon, of Illinois. Whatever else may be said of him, I can say of 
 him that I have always liked him personally, because he never 
 undertook to galvanize a Democratic principle into a Republican 
 slogan. After 40 years of service in the Congress of the United 
 States, he may go back to the people who have honored him, a 
 Republican of Republicans [applause]; one whose name and charac- 
 ter and service take us back to the age when Garfield and Conkling 
 and Blame proclaimed the principles of their party; one who never 
 called for an adjective to add to, or an adverb to modify, the glory 
 of his plain Republicanism. [Applause.] 
 
 And now, after all these years of public service, he returns to 
 a people whom he has represented here in the faith in which they 
 believed, and having walked in that light spot where greatness 
 treads, for 20 terms in Congress, he may say to them that not a flaw 
 can be picked in it from the standpoint of personal honor and official 
 integrity, and it beams with the unspotted radiance of a summer's 
 evening star. [Applause.] 
 
 And so, Republicans, I can say to you that the Democrats can 
 join with you in paying tribute to one whose earnestness in a con- 
 viction, though we differ from him, makes him in our eyes a patriot, 
 a splendid, a real, a genuine American. [Applause.] 
 
 SENATOR JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS. 
 
 Toastmaster Moore. I may be calling him out of his rank. He 
 should have been called upon earlier. But he was once a member 
 of the House of Representatives, and therefore he stands with the 
 majority of us to-night. He was the leader of his party in the 
 House, a man whose argument was as keen as a rapier, and who 
 found in the distinguished guest of the evening "a foeman worthy of 
 his steel'' — Senator John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi. [Applause.] 
 
 Senator Williams. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Toastmaster, and gentle- 
 men, an unreconstructed Bourbon Mississippi Democrat, who loved 
 the very ground that I walked upon, once said to me, "John, there is 
 just one thing about your conduct in Washington that I do not 
 understand. How is it that you and old Joe Cannon are so fond of 
 each other?" 
 
 I said, ''My dear boy, Uncle Joe and I have been trying for a long 
 time to explain that to our respective constituencies, and I imagine 
 that we will spend the balance of our lives trying to explain it, and 
 if the theory of the immortality of souls be correct I imagine we will 
 be bothered with it a good deal of the time throughout eternity." 
 
 We resemble one another in this respect, at any rate, and I hope 
 it is not a bad trait, although it is not an heroic one: We separate 
 
20 SPEECHES IX HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 ourselves to a large extent from the criticism of the world by a veil 
 of real or artificial humor. So far has it gOne that I do not remember 
 am time when we have met in public when we threw down the veil, 
 but 1 believe to-night 1 will throw it down. 
 
 I first began to know Uncle Joe when he was chairman of the 
 Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives. It was 
 not long before I learned that he had the longest nose for a fraud or 
 a job oi any man in the House of Representatives. [Applause.] It 
 was not long before i acquired the habit of crossing the aisle and 
 saying, "What about this I" when I wanted to know about some new 
 tiling on an appropriation bill, and he would say, "Sharp, there is a 
 job in that." "That is something to take care of lame ducks," or 
 "There is something about it that I don't like." 
 
 I would then cross the aisle back to the Democratic side with per- 
 fect confidence, array what few young Members I could against the 
 proposition, and support the Republican Committee on Appropria- 
 tions with the word of its chairman behind it. [Applause.] 
 
 They were talking to-night about his having his name affixed 
 to no great public measure. As far as I know, Daniel Webster 
 had his name affixed to none. As far. as I know, a great many of 
 the leading men of the United States, who cut a chief figure in their 
 day, had their names affixed t<» none. There are two duties for a 
 Representative or Senator. One is affirmative; the other is nega- 
 tive, and of the two, the negative duty is the greater. It is very 
 easy to start things, with some doubt as to where they will end. 
 It is a very easy thing to call yourself a constructive statesman, and 
 leave to some other statesmen later on the task of unconstructing 
 or reconstructing what you have done. But it requires a good deal 
 of coui'age to stem a tide, to breast a current, to detect a fraud and 
 stop it. 
 
 Now, 1 did not attempt to explain it to my Mississippi constit- 
 uent, but I believe that that was when 1 first began to trust Uncle 
 floe. The trust had not lasted long before I began to love him in 
 addition to trusting him. [Applause.] 
 
 There is an old German song that begins: 
 
 Es zogen drei Burschen wohl liber den Rhein. 
 
 And when they got over the Rhine, they found that the girl of the 
 inn was dead and lying upon her bier. One of them said: 
 I have loved thee well. 
 
 Another said : 
 
 V\'eri thou alive I would love t h<-.- yet. 
 
 The third responded : 
 
 Dich habe Ich geliebl . 
 
 I >ich liebe Ich noch Heul ' . 
 
 Und werde dich lieben auf Ewigkeit. 
 
 I loved thee yesterday; I love thee still to-day; and I shall love 
 thee throughout eternity. [Applause.] 
 
 There are many who may say of Uncle Joe, "I loved him when he 
 could dispense committee assignments." There are some of you who 
 can say, "I would love him yet if he were Speaker." But I under- 
 take to say, - 'l loved him yesterday, I love him to-day, and I shall 
 love him throughout all time." [Applause.] 
 
SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 21 
 
 What is it that ties one man's soul to another? It is hard to 
 answer. I do not know. Is it politics? Why, I am a Bourbon 
 Democrat. Uncle Joe is a standpatter of the nineteenth century 
 [laughter], and we are about beginning the second decade of the 
 twentieth century, so that that can not account for it. Is it simi- 
 larity of religion? Why, Uncle Joe is a recalcitrant Quaker, and I 
 am a High Church Episcopalian — so high that you can not reach me 
 with a persimmon pole except upon a fast day. [Laughter.] Is it 
 metaphysics ? Is it a similarity of belief there ? I believe in innate 
 ideas. I believe that a man is born with a moral sense as much as 
 with two arms and two legs, and that he can not get over it. I 
 believe that a man's heiedity controls it. Uncle Joe seems to believe 
 that every child is born with a mind like a tablet of wax, upon which 
 he can write everything, and provided he has the same mother and 
 the same training, regardless of the race of his father, he will come 
 out with equal achievement to that of another at the end; in all of 
 which I do not believe. Is it an identity of geography ? I imagine 
 not. I come from where the Confederate jessamine grows, and 
 Uncle Joe comes from where no flower attains to full fruition except 
 corntassles; so that that can not have much to do with it. [Laughter.] 
 
 I do not know what it is, unless it be that one honest man, 
 maybe not over serious, finds in another man an honest and sincere 
 and brave purpose. In fact, I do not know that there is any other 
 enduring basis of friendship than that. It leads to mutual trust, to 
 mutual confidence, and at the base of all mutual affection must be 
 mutual trust and confidence. If that be not the real explanation it 
 would be hard for me to tell what it is. 
 
 My patron saint, old Thomas Jefferson, said that men were respon- 
 sible for the righteousness and not for the rightfulness of their opin- 
 ions. In other words, a man is responsible for advocating that which 
 he believes to be right and for opposing that which he believes to be 
 wrong. He is not responsible for error of opinion, thank God, because 
 if he were we would be responsible for very much more than we could 
 stand sponsors for. And so it happens that men who meet with one 
 another and recognize this common trait of righteousness of convic- 
 tion, standing by their conviction with courage, advocating nothing 
 which in their opinion is wrong because it is popular and opposing 
 nothing which in their opinion is right because it is unpopular, will 
 love one another. And that possibly may be the answer to the ques- 
 tion which my Mississippi Democratic friend asked me and which I 
 did not choose to answer at that particular time. [Prolonged 
 applause.] 
 
 GEN. HILARY A. HERBERT. 
 
 Toastmaster Moore. Two gentlemen who are not upon the pro- 
 gram ought to be heard even though the hour is late; one of them 
 is that distinguished son of the South who honored his country as 
 Secretary of the Navy under Grover Cleveland, Gen. Hilary A. Herbert. 
 Listen to him. [Applause.] 
 
 Mr. Herbert, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Toastmaster, and gentlemen, 
 when I first knew the honored guest of this evening I was in the 
 Forty-fifth Congress, over a third of a century ago. At that time, to 
 use a phrase which we are told this evening is to go sounding down 
 the ages, "In the last analysis," Joe Cannon was just the same as he 
 is to-day. [Applause.] 
 
22 SPEECHES IX HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 We 9erved together for eight Congresses, and during all that time 
 each Congress was very much of the same opinion as that which I 
 suppose the present Congress entertains about itself. We were 
 optimistic about the future of our country, as Senator Root has been 
 this evening; we were in the country was safe, the people were show- 
 ing their capacity for self government by the wisdom with which 
 they had chosen their Representatives. But it is late and I will 
 not detain you. 
 
 When 1 left Congress 20 years ago this month Joe Cannon was 
 still there, and still the >ame as he is to-day, except in one respect: 
 He was not my " Uncle.'" T was older than lie was. But to-night he 
 is the Uncle of all of us. Five hundred of his nephews have come 
 here this evening to do him honor [applause], and 1 understand that 
 3,000 more tried to get in. but found there was not room. 
 
 Uncle Joe Cannon, in my opinion, in his politics was always dead 
 wrong, but in the tenacity with which he held his views, the views 
 that he entertained, and the courage with which he fought for them, 
 he was always dead right. [Applause.] lie always fought fair: he 
 never hit below the belt; and that is the reason why he has won out. 
 In addition to all that, he is the prince of good fellows, and as such 
 we have come here to-night to bid him God speed in the future. 
 (Applause.] 
 
 PRESENTATION OF A MARBLE BUST, 
 i 
 
 Calls for "Cannon!'' 'Cannon!" and "Uncle Joe!'' 
 
 Toastmaster Moore. The enthusiasm of youth, the toastmaster 
 understands, is breaking out toward the heel of the evening: but the 
 toastmaster is still in control, and will close the exercises promptly at 
 t2 o'clock, as indicated. 
 
 And now. while we forego the pleasure of listening to such distin- 
 guished speakers as the eloquent former Senator from Texas, Mr. 
 Bailey, who is here, and Gen. Grosvenor. who has come all the way 
 from Ohio [cries of ' Bailey! Bailey!"], Sereno E. Payne, John Dalzell, 
 Bourke Cochran and many other distinguished men. who. by reason 
 •of your impetuosity and petulance [laughter] at this hour [cries of 
 "Bailey! Bailey!"] we may not call upon — it is your fault and not 
 that of the toastmaster- we shall present for a special touch to the 
 speeches of this historic evening, Dr. Richard Bartholdt of Missouri. 
 
 Mr. Bartholdt. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Toastmaster, and gentlemen, 
 I am charged with the p< rformance of a duty most pleasant, as well 
 us most difficult; pleasant because the task of giving always touches 
 the tender chords in the hearts of both the donor and the recipient, 
 and difficult because language is so poor to express adequately the 
 intensity of feeling which inspires this task. 
 
 In his maiden speech in the House of Representatives od the 18th 
 of February, 1872, the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, then a young man of 
 36 years, spoke these memorable words: 
 
 No man is a proper person to represent the people unless he has the honesty and the 
 backbone to stand and do the best he can, and do what is right and what is for the 
 interests of his people, without reference to what anybody may say of him or what 
 the action of the press may be in the premises. 
 
 Uncle Joe -if we loved him less we would be less familiar — has 
 made a thousand speeches since that time. By his distinguished 
 
SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 23 
 
 services he has made the whole country his debtor, and lie has erect* d 
 monuments in the hearts of his countrymen. Coming here 40 years 
 ago, with oats in his pocket, as was said in that debate, he now is 
 about to return home, with a rich harvest of honorable achievements, 
 to his constituents, who have honored him for 40 years. But no 
 nobler sentiment, no greater troth has ever been uttered by man than 
 were these simple words which flowed like pure gold from a pure 
 soul. And what is more, he has lived up to them himself, ami those 
 of us who know him best know that the beautiful lesson contained 
 in those w< rds has characterized hi; own great congressi* nal can i r 
 from beginning to end. 
 
 For the guidance of the Representatives of the people that epi- 
 gram should be chiseled in stone above the portals of the House of 
 Representatives. But as that can not be done, we have devised 
 another plan in order to be daily reminded of it. One hundred 
 friends of the great commoner, Members of the House and Senate, 
 have banded together to dedicate to him, as a token of their esteem 
 and love, a bust — a bust of himself. He wishes in turn to donate the 
 bust to the House of Representatives. I ask you, could there be a 
 more appropriate place to put that bust than in the House Office 
 Building, which in itself is a monument to the former Speaker, 
 because he conceived the idea of that great building and carried 
 out the plans as the chairman of the commission appointed for that 
 purpose. If this distinguished audience will say "Aye" to this 
 proposition it will be done, because, although I can not count now 
 a la Tom Reed, because of the darkness, I think a quorum is present. 
 [Cries of "Aye!" "Aye!"] 
 
 Mr. Toastmaster and Mr. Cannon, I beg one more minute for the 
 purpose of presenting to you the creator of this masterpiece of art, 
 the man whom St. Gaudens selected as the author of the Yon Steuben 
 monument, and who has, after fierce competition, just carried off" the 
 prize for the great Germantown monument — Mr. Albert Jaegers. I 
 will ask him to rise. 
 
 Mr. Jaegers w x as greeted with great applause. 
 
 SPEECH OF MR. CANNON. 
 
 Toastmaster Moore. Friends of Uncle Joe, we have reached the 
 climax. Will you take your handkerchiefs or your napkins and 
 salute the honored guest of the evening? Mr. Cannon will now say 
 a few words. [Cheers and waving of napkins.] 
 
 Mr. Cannon. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Toastmaster, and gentlemen, at 
 this late hour of the night I can only say to you in concluding, as I 
 apprehend, the exercises of the evening, that from my heart 1 thank 
 you. I would be less than human if I failed to appreciate to the 
 utmost extent the generous compliment you pay me by gathering 
 here to-night. The words of confidence and good will which have 
 fallen from the lips of the distinguished gentlemen who have spoken, 
 beginning with the honored President of the United States and 
 joined in by my colleagues of the House and Senate, have quite over- 
 come me and almost bereft me of the power of speech. Service in 
 the Congress of the United States demands labor and toil ; sometimes 
 it involves misrepresentation and abuse; now and then it brings, 
 
24 SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 mayhap, a heartache or the suggestion of pain; but if all these were 
 multiplied a thousandfold there would still bo balm for every injury 
 and consolation for every regret in the friendships which are formed 
 between virile men, and so long as I live, no matter what may come 
 to pass, whether fortune smiles or frowns, nothing can rob me of the 
 priceless memory of the friends I have met and known and loved 
 during a service of almost 40 years in the House of Representatives. 
 
 It was a saying of Cicero that it is impossible for men in public life 
 to be friends, because of their jealousies and contentions. However 
 true that may have been in the days when Rome was mistress of the 
 world and Cicero was her greatest orator, it is not true in the United 
 States of America to-day. In our day and age there need be no further 
 refutation of the saying attributed to Cicero than the magnificent 
 assemblage here to-night. 
 
 We divide into party organizations having different economic 
 policies, striving from time to time for popular approval; but, thank 
 God, the men who wage the great political battles of our country and 
 seek the verdict of the majority have but one hope, one aspiration, 
 one desire, and that is to serve the great Republic. [Applause.] As 
 T look into the eyes of my honored friend and political opponent, 
 Senator Williams, of Mississippi, and as he looks into my eyes, we 
 acknowledge that from the attrition of virile minds, each upholding 
 what he believes to be right, according as it is given him to see the 
 light, and from the clash of contending forces, the best results for all 
 the people are obtained. [Applause.] One or the other of us is 
 mistaken as to economic policies, but we are a unit in loyalty to the 
 flag and in seeking the greatest good for the greatest number. When 
 the majority record then judgment we bow to their will, whether 
 they be Republican or Democratic, and leave the fleeting years to 
 demonstrate the wisdom or unwisdom of the policies written on the 
 statute books, the minority criticizing, the majority upholding. If, 
 perchance, mistakes are made, as the pendulum swings back and 
 forth and as men come and go, we may safely count, in spite of the 
 play of the demagogue masquerading in the robes of the plain people, 
 upon the sound judgment, the patriotic impulses, and the wisdom 
 of American manhood to correct the errors and right the wrongs of 
 government. We may strut and fret as real or imaginary leaders of 
 public opinion, but, after all, the silent ballot is the guiding, directing 
 force. 
 
 I am not here to make a partisan speech. I am a partisan, as you, 
 Senator Williams, are a partisan. 
 
 Senator W t illiams. Not to-night. 
 
 Mr. Cannon. Oh, no; not to-night; but we have contested in the 
 presence of a hundred million people, you believing honestly that the 
 policies advocated by you were for the best interests of all the people, 
 and I believing that the policies advocated by me were for their best 
 interests, and wo have been generous contestants. [A pplause.] 
 
 Looking in your faces, my friends, and Members of the House and 
 Senate, I accord to you who do not agree with me politically the same 
 loyalty to the great Republic that I claim for myself. As manly men 
 wo make our contests as God gives us to see the right, and we are 
 indorsed or fail of indorsement from time to time, as the case may 
 be. The new generation comes, and if they do not learn through 
 the brain they will learn through the stomach, or through both 
 
SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 25 
 
 brain and stomach, and all things will end well. Thank God, I have 
 been an optimist all my life, and I shall remain an optimist to the 
 end. [Applause.] 
 
 My friend and colleague of many years, Dr. Bartholdt, has called 
 your attention to a bust which, without my knowledge, was ordered 
 from the hands of an eminent artist, the one who executed the statue 
 of Von Steuben, his design being chosen above all others. I do not 
 know, further than Dr. Bartholdt has intimated, who procured the 
 bust; nor do I know as to its merits, for I have not heretofore seen 
 it as a finished work, but I do know that the sculptor has received 
 in the world of art many indorsements. 
 
 The gentleman from Missouri, my friend and your friend, has sug- 
 gested that perchance it ought to rest in the House Office Building, 
 I do not know what may be the will of the House touching the 
 suggestion. I know, however, that some years ago, in the perform- 
 ance of my duty as a Member of the House of Representatives, being 
 in charge of the sundry civil appropriation bill, I asked, for reasons 
 assigned — which probably embraced no more than two or three short 
 sentences — that the construction of the building be authorized. The 
 House and Senate agreed. The House Office Building was begun, 
 followed shortly by the Senate Office Building. I leave the matter 
 in your hands. 
 
 My friends, I am an old man. [Cries of " No, no! "] Measured by 
 years I am old. I am about to retire from public life. [Cries of "No, 
 no!"] I will soon be 77 years old. My face is turned toward the 
 setting sun. But when the sun disappears below the western horizon 
 I shall go secure in the feeling that, whatever party may from time to 
 time be chargeable with the responsibilities of government, if mis- 
 takes are made an enlightened public sentiment will correct them. 
 Again I thank you, one and all. [Prolonged applause.] 
 
 "speed the parting guest." 
 
 Toastmaster Moore. Gentlemen, in concluding the festivities of 
 the evening, let us wish our honored guest Godspeed and perennial 
 youth. In whatever direction his future path may lie — whether to 
 return, as we doubt not he will, in response to popular summons, to 
 his invaluable service for the Nation, or of his own choice to round 
 out his great career in the repose of private life — let our hearts go 
 with him. Let us wish him in the years to come a continued posses- 
 sion of all he now has of — 
 
 That which should accompany old age, 
 As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends. 
 
 Lastly, gentlemen, as we began, so let us close — in friendship and 
 fraternity. Let us have in the grand finale some thoughts of home. 
 Mr. Herndon Morsell will pronounce an informal benediction in that 
 beautiful lyric, "The Song That Touched My Heart." 
 
 With the conclusion of Mr. MorselTs song the exercises of the 
 evening were brought to a close. 
 
26 SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 THE MENU AND THE HOSTS. 
 
 In the notable assemblage which constituted "the hosts" of Mr- 
 Cannon were representatives of every State and Territory of the 
 Union and of "our colonial possessions." The souvenir menu card 
 is also worthy of mention in connection with the record. On the 
 frontispiece is presented a true photograph of Mr. Cannon, under 
 winch appeared the following verse : 
 
 The storms may come, the winds may blow, 
 
 The saplings and the pines may fall, 
 But tempered to the sun and snow, 
 
 The sturdy oak survives them all. 
 And so in legislative halls, 
 
 Where men and measures come and go, 
 On Fame's enduring record calls, 
 
 The honor rests with Uncle Joe. 
 
 The other announcements, including the list of hosts or "partici- 
 pants," were in this order: 
 
 Dinner 
 
 By his friends to 
 
 the honorable 
 
 JOSEPH G. CANNON, 
 
 of Illinois. 
 
 The Raleigh, Washington, D. C. Saturday, February the fifteenth, nineteen hun- 
 dred and thirteen. 
 
 GUESTS. 
 
 The President of the United States. 
 The Honorable Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois. 
 
 MENU. 
 
 The House will be in order. 
 
 Tn,„ <<i^,.i,,-,J win offer prayer— Cannon rules, 
 ine Lhaplamj win Jead ^ prayer _ clark version. 
 
 Grapefruit with maraschino 
 
 Celery Salted almonds Olives 
 
 Clear green turtle 
 
 Chesapeake bass au gratin 
 
 Filet of beef with fresh mushrooms 
 
 New string beans Potato croquettes 
 
 Roman punch 
 
 Stuffed royal Bquab au cresson 
 
 Hearts of lettuce with French dressing 
 
 Fancy ices Assorted cakes 
 
 Toasted crackers 
 
 Cheese 
 
 Demi tasse 
 
 Alas, inexorable fate. 
 
 We do adjourn without debate. 
 
SPEECHES IN" HONOR OF HON". JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 27 
 
 PARTICIPANTS. 
 
 This valiant host, in battles fought, 
 Did give and take as true men ought, 
 But now, to serve more worthy ends, 
 Do greet the guest and eat as friends. 
 
 Felix Agnus. 
 Theron Akin. 
 J. Frank Aldrich. 
 J. B. Aleshire. 
 Joshua W. Alexander. 
 James Allen. 
 Alfred G. Allen. 
 Paul Anderson. 
 Joseph P. Annin. 
 
 D. R. Anthony, jr. 
 
 E. A. Armstrong. 
 William A. Ashbrook. 
 R. M. Austin. 
 
 R. 0. Bailey. 
 Joseph W. Bailey. 
 Andrew J. Barehfeld. 
 Samuel S. Barney. 
 William J. Barnes. 
 Henry A. Barnhart. 
 Richard Bartholdt. 
 Geo. A. Bartlett. 
 Frank H. Barto. 
 Arthur W. Bates. 
 Jack Beall. 
 Dimner Beeber. 
 Perry Belmont. 
 Wm. S. Bennet. 
 Ira E. Bennett. 
 Charles G. Bennett. 
 Clifford K. Berryman. 
 E. P. Bertholf. 
 Sidney Bieber. 
 Rogers Birnie. 
 George T. Bishop. 
 Frank S. Black. 
 E. P. Blanchard. 
 H. W. Blanchard. 
 Rupert Blue. 
 Samuel G. Blythe. 
 Jno. W. Boehne. 
 Scott 0. Bone. 
 J. Fenton Booth. 
 Henry S. Boutell. 
 Thos. W. Bradley. 
 Frank B. Brandegee. 
 Thos. W. Brahanv. 
 Wm. G. Brantley. 
 J. E. Breckens. 
 Frank O. Biggs. 
 Robert F. Broussard. 
 Chapin Brown. 
 R. B. Brown. 
 Thomas C. L. Brown. 
 Wm. J. Browning. 
 Frank Buchanan. 
 George F. Burgess, 
 ('has. H. Burke. 
 Theodore E. Burton. 
 L. W. Busbey. 
 Thomas S. Butler. 
 John Byers. 
 
 James F. Byrnes. 
 Joseph W. Byrns. 
 R. E. Cabell. 
 Wm. M. Calder. 
 James Callahan . 
 Philip P. Campbell. 
 Richard Campion. 
 James 0. Cantrill. 
 Chas. D. Carter. 
 A. E. Chaffee. 
 E. J. Chambei'lain. 
 Fred T. Chandler. 
 P. T. Chapman. 
 W T m. E. Chilton. 
 H. E. Chubbuck. 
 E. B. Clark. 
 Horace T. Clark. 
 Clarence D. Clark. 
 Champ Clark. 
 Frank Clark. 
 Henry D. Clayton. 
 J. C. Clements. 
 Edward H. Cliff. 
 Bourke Cockran. 
 Wm. B. Cockran. 
 Ralph D. Cole. 
 Frank W. Collier. 
 Frank W. Connor. 
 L. A. Coolidge. 
 
 D. W. Cooper. 
 Ira C. Copley. 
 
 E. Livingston Cornelius. 
 John Corrigan, jr. 
 
 J. A. Corwin. 
 J. C. Courts. 
 Thos. S. Crago. 
 Charles F. Craig. 
 Geo. A. Craig. 
 W T . Murray Crane. 
 Ben Cravens. 
 Frank B. Crosthwaite. 
 E. H. Crowder. • 
 William Crozier. 
 Edgar D. Crumpacker. 
 Shelby M. Cullom. 
 Francis Curtis. 
 Chas. E. Curtiss. 
 John Dalzell. 
 Henry G. Danforth. 
 D. G. Davis. 
 John W. Davis. 
 James H. Davidson. 
 Henry S. De Forest. 
 Elmer Dell. 
 Matthew R. Denver. 
 H. E. Devendorf. 
 Marion De Vries. 
 Chas. Dick. 
 Clement C. Dickinson. 
 L. Dixon. 
 D. Webster Dixon. 
 
 Francis H. Dodds. 
 Samuel B. Donnelly. 
 James A. Dougherty. 
 Wm. H. Draper. 
 Daniel A. Driscoll. 
 H. Garland Dupre\ 
 Cyrus Durey. 
 John W. Dwight. 
 Albert Eisner. 
 Fred A. Emery. 
 James A. Emerv. 
 A. A. Erly. 
 Albert Estopinal. 
 Lynden Evans. 
 George W. Fairchild. 
 G. W. Faris. 
 Maurice L. Farrell. 
 J. Feldenheimer. 
 David E. Finley. 
 Adolph Fishel. 
 S. Fisher. 
 John J. Fitzgerald. 
 John C. Floyd. 
 Joseph W. Fordney. 
 Chas. V. Fornes. 
 George E. Foss. 
 Martin D. Foster. 
 Rudolph P\>rster. 
 D. R. Francis. 
 Gerald Frank. 
 Nathan Frank. 
 Henry Freeman. 
 Chas. E. Fuller. 
 Robert J. Gamble. 
 Augustus P. Gardner. 
 John J. Gardner. 
 John N. Garner. 
 Finis J. Garrett. 
 Louis Garthe. 
 R. M. Gates. 
 John P. Gavii. 
 James L. Gerry. 
 W. C. Gearing. 
 Frank L. Gierne. 
 Frank H. Ginn. 
 Robert M. Ginter. 
 Earl Godwin. 
 Henry M. Goldfogle. 
 James W. Good. 
 James Graham. 
 C. D. Grandfield. 
 Joel Grayson. 
 Wm. S. Greene. 
 Wm. W. Griest. 
 C. H. Grosvenor. 
 Aaron Grove. 
 Frank E. Guernsey. 
 Simon Guggenheim. 
 Harry Hall. 
 Winfield S. Hammond. 
 Henry C. Hansbrough. 
 
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 SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 Kufus Hardy. 
 
 Norman \V. Harris. 
 
 A. C. Hart. 
 
 Jesse L. Hartman. 
 
 Willis C. Haw-ley. 
 
 Carl Harden. 
 
 Wm. II.' Eeald. 
 
 J. Thomas Berlin. 
 
 R. D. Heinl. 
 
 J. A. Hemingway. 
 
 J. B. Henderson. 
 
 Robert Henderson. 
 
 H. O. Hi-island. 
 
 W. P. Hepburn. 
 
 Hillary A. Herbert. 
 
 Wm. B. Hibbs. 
 
 Edwin W. Higgins. 
 
 Ebenezer Hill. 
 
 Chas. D. Hilles. 
 
 Aslier C. Hinds. 
 
 Frank T. Hines. 
 
 Frank S. Hinricbe. 
 
 Frank H. Hitchcock. 
 
 W. B. Hoggatt. 
 
 Jno. E. Hollingsworth. 
 
 Wm. C. Houston. 
 
 Joseph Howell. 
 
 James A. Hughes. 
 
 Wm. E. Humphrey. 
 
 Benjamin G. Humphreys. 
 
 Allan A. Irvine. 
 
 Herold L. Jackson. 
 
 Albert Jaegers. 
 
 Ollie M. James. 
 
 G. G.Jewell. 
 
 E. B. Johns. 
 Chas. F. Johnson. 
 H. L. E. Johnson. 
 Philander Johnson. 
 D wight V. Jones. 
 Herbert L. Jones. 
 Wesley L. Jones. 
 Eldridge E. Jordan. 
 Chas. F. Joy. 
 Julius Kahn. 
 
 J. Harry Kaiser. 
 J. K. Kalanianiole. 
 T. P. Kane. 
 Rudolph M. Kauffman. 
 R. M. Kauffman, jr. 
 L. M. Kelly. 
 N. E. Kendall. 
 Chas. A. Kennedy. 
 Bert Kennedy. 
 James Kenned v. 
 Wm. Kent. 
 
 F. J. Kernan. 
 H. W. Ketron. 
 Chas. P. Keyser. 
 S.J. Kimball, 
 Eugene F. Kinkead. 
 E. H. Kinkead. 
 Moses P. Kinkead. 
 A. J. Kleberg. 
 Gardner Klein. 
 Joseph R. Knowland. 
 Thos. F. Konop. 
 
 Arthur W. Kopp. 
 Emil Kuhn. 
 Daniel F. Lal'ean. 
 Wm. L. La Follette. 
 John Lamb. 
 Jonathan N. Langham. 
 George B. Laughlin. 
 George P. Lawrence. 
 Gordon Lee. 
 Francis L. Leland. 
 A. J. Lester. 
 Montague Lessler. 
 Ashbury F. Lever. 
 Jefferson M. Levy. 
 J. Charles Linthicum. 
 Henry T. Lippitt. 
 Lucius N. Littauer. 
 Thos. P. Littlepage. 
 James T. Lloyd. 
 Thomas F. Logan. 
 Nicholas Longworth. 
 Wm. Lorimer. 
 George A. Loud. 
 James McAndrews. 
 Samuel W. McCall. 
 George D. McCreary. 
 Porter J. McCumber. 
 James T. McDermott. 
 
 D. A. McGillicuddy. 
 Charles A. MacGrath. 
 S. A. MacBeath. 
 Bird S. McGuire. 
 Ormsby McHarg. 
 Frank Mclntyre. 
 Henry H. McKee. 
 Joseph McKenna. 
 John C. McKenzie. 
 James Mc Kinney. 
 Duncan B. McKinlay. 
 Wm. B. McKinley. 
 James McLaughlin. 
 James C. McLaughlin. 
 C. R. Macauley. 
 Martin B. Madden. 
 John H. Magruder. 
 Wm. D. Major. 
 James R. Mann. 
 
 G. E. Martin. 
 Eben W. Martin. 
 James E. Martin. 
 John A. Martin. 
 W. E. Mason. 
 
 E. A. Merritt, jr. 
 N. O. Messenger. 
 George L. Meyer. 
 Louis T. Michener. 
 Hugh S. Miller. 
 
 A. L. Mills. 
 Frank Mondell. 
 Jno. E. Monk. 
 Clayton F. Moore. 
 J. Hampton Moore. 
 Henry H. Moran. 
 Dick'T. Morgan. 
 Martin A. Morrison. 
 Herndon Morsell. 
 Alexander Mosher. 
 
 Luther W. Mott, 
 R. F. Moyer. 
 C. B. Muller. 
 Frank A. Munsey. 
 J. W. Murphy. 
 Wm. F. Murray. 
 Charles Nagel. 
 J. C. Needham. 
 Knute Nelson. 
 John H. Nolan. 
 James E. Normyle. 
 Dan C. Nugent. 
 Frank M. 5, ye. 
 George H. O 'Conner. 
 James A. O'Gorman. 
 J. Van Vechten Olcott. 
 George T. .Oliver. 
 Marlin E. Olmsted. 
 George F. O'Shaunessy. 
 Richard V. Oulahan. 
 Carroll S. Page. 
 Robert N. Page. 
 Lemuel P. Padgett. 
 Truman G. Palmer. 
 Myron M. Parker. 
 Richard W. Parker. 
 Charles E. Patton. 
 Sereno E. Payne. 
 Thomas H. Paynter. 
 Lafe Pence. 
 Boies Penrose. 
 Irvin S. Pepper. 
 T. Roy Percy. 
 Andrew J. Peters. 
 Horace Pettit. 
 Herman Phillips. 
 Marshall W. Pickering. 
 Charles E. Pickett. 
 Mahlon Pitney. 
 Frank Plumley. 
 Atlee Pomerene. 
 Henry A. Powell. 
 Stephen G. Porter. 
 Caleb Powers. 
 Charles M. Pray. 
 W. C. Prentis. 
 James B. Preston. 
 George W. Prince. 
 Arsene P. Pujo. 
 M. L. Quezon. 
 Henry T. Rainey. 
 Wallace Radcliffe. 
 John E. Raker. 
 Joseph E. Ralph. 
 G. C. Rankin. 
 Joseph E. Ransdell. 
 George W. Ray. 
 S. R. Raymond. 
 A. C. Rearick. 
 Thomas L. Reilly. 
 John E. Reyburn. 
 William S. Reyburn. 
 J. B. Reynolds. 
 Oscar J. Ricketts. 
 Herman Ridder. 
 Charles Rittenhouse. 
 William A. Rittenhouse. 
 
SPEECHES IN HONOR OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. 
 
 29 
 
 E. G. Riggs. 
 George E. Roberts. 
 Ernest W. Roberts. 
 William A. Rodenberg. 
 Joseph G. Rogers. 
 Elihu Root. 
 Thomas L. Rubey. 
 William W. Rucker. 
 Atterson W. Rncker. 
 Cuno H. Rudolph. 
 W. C. Ruffin. 
 Joseph J. Russell. 
 William T. Russell. 
 John P. Ryan. 
 Adolph J. Sabath. 
 
 E. R. Sartwell. 
 Gus. A. Schuldt. 
 Oswald F. Schuette. 
 N. B. Scott. 
 George C. Scott. 
 
 W. D. Searle. 
 William G. Sharp. 
 John A. Sleicher. 
 Swagar Sherley. 
 Isaac Sherwood. 
 John S. Shriver. 
 James S. Simmons. 
 A. L. Sinclair. 
 Joseph Sinnott. 
 Thomas U. Sisson. 
 James L. Slayden. 
 C. Bascom Slemp. 
 Charles H. Sloan. 
 William Sloane. 
 
 F. K. Smith. 
 Frank Smith. 
 Hal H. Smith. 
 J. M. ('. Smith. 
 Marcus A. Smith. 
 M. P. Smith. 
 
 Mid die ton Smith. 
 
 Ralph Smith. 
 
 W. A. Smith. 
 
 Edgar C. Snyder. 
 
 J. C. South. 
 
 Stephen M. Sparkman. 
 t Peter M. Speer. 
 ! William J. Spencer. 
 
 Maurice Splain. 
 
 F. J. Starek. 
 
 George Steele. 
 
 Halvor S. Steenerson. 
 
 Edw. J. Stellwagen. 
 
 Dan V. Stephens. 
 
 John A. Stephens. 
 
 Isaac Stephenson. 
 
 John A. Sterling. 
 
 Frederick C. Stevens. 
 
 Harry M. Stevens. 
 
 John K. Stewart. 
 
 Alfred J. Stofer. 
 
 Frank S. Streeter. 
 
 John J. Sullivan. 
 
 John T. Suter. 
 
 Robert M. Switzer. 
 
 J. Fred C. Talbott. 
 
 Charles A. Talcott. 
 
 James A. Tawney. 
 
 George W. Taylor. 
 
 Edward L. Taylor, jr. 
 
 H. W. Taylor. 
 
 J. H. Tenant. 
 
 Napoleon B. Thistlewood. 
 
 Alfred P. Thorn. 
 
 Carmi Thompson. 
 
 James R. Thornton. 
 
 William T. Tilden. 
 
 Theo. H. Tiller. 
 
 Horace M. Towner. 
 
 Robert J. Tracewell. 
 
 South Trimble. 
 Chas. E. Townsend. 
 Wm. E. Tuttle, jr. 
 P. H. Uberoth. 
 Edwin S. Underbill. 
 Oscar W. Underwood. 
 H. C. Van Voorhis. 
 Wm. S. Vare. 
 Leroy Vernon. 
 E. B. Vreeland. 
 Wilbur E. Wakeman. 
 Stanton Warburton. 
 Francis E. Warren. 
 John T. Watkins. 
 Clarence W. Watson. 
 John W. Weeks. 
 Henry M. West. 
 George P. Wetmore. 
 Adolph Weyl. 
 John J. Whitacre. 
 Edward D. White. 
 George White. 
 James Wickersham . 
 George W T . Wickersham. 
 T. A. Wickersham. 
 John Sharp Williams. 
 Frank B. Willis. 
 Wm. W. Wilson. 
 James Wilson. 
 B Ian ton Winship. 
 S. A. Witherspoon. 
 I. P. Wood. 
 Ira W. Wood. 
 Elliott Woods. 
 Chas. L. Wolcott. 
 Wm. Wooley. 
 Henry Xander. 
 H. Olin Young. 
 James R. Young. 
 
 THE COMMITTEE. 
 
 Chairman, Benjamin G. Humphreys 
 
 Vice Chairman, J. Hampton Moore. 
 
 Secretary, Ira C. Copley. 
 
 Treasurer, Eugene F. Kinkead. 
 
 John Sharp Williams 
 Robert F. Broussard. 
 Wm. G. Brantley. 
 James M. Graham. 
 Joseph W. Fordney. 
 Chas. A. Korblv. 
 
 Andrew J. Peters. 
 John J. Fitzgerald. 
 George W. Taylor. 
 Richard Bartholdt. 
 Thomas W. Bradley. 
 D. R. Anthony, jr. 
 
 Frank W. Mondell. 
 Willis C. Hawley. 
 Martin B. Madden. 
 Edward L. Taylor. 
 John T. Suter." 
 Rudolph M. Kauffmann. 
 
 THE AROMA OF THE RULES. 
 
 On the back cover of the souvenir menu card was a well-chewed 
 half-smoked cigar of the familiar " Uncle Joe" type, and under it 
 these lines : 
 
 You may break, you may shatter, 
 
 The rules if you will. 
 But the Cannon aroma 
 Will hang to them still. 
 
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