All the Insurgents Will Now Want Cannon to Speak Against Them

All the Insurgents Will Now Want Cannon to Speak Against Them

McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949

Political cartoons

Political corruption

Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926

United States. Congress. House. Office of the Speaker of the House

Insurgents in states surrounding Kansas write letters to Representative Joseph Cannon asking him to denounce them while Cannon-approved men lie on the ground throughout the state. Two insurgents in Kansas claim "Alas! Poor Cannon! I knew him well" in front of a newspaper with the headline "Kansas Cans Cannon-ism".

Republican Joseph Gurney Cannon, the fortieth Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1903-1911), welded massive control over house rules as Chairman of the Rules Committee and had unlimited power to appoint people to all house committees. Cannon used his exceptional powers to control the divergent sects in the Republican party in the early nineteen hundreds, thereby appointing only conservative minded committeemen and undermining the progressive Republicans. On March 17, 1910, however, a coalition of progressive Republicans and 142 Democrats took absent Cannon supporters by surprise and succeeded in removing Cannon as Chairman of the Rules Committee, also taking away his power to appoint committee members.

McCutcheon, John T.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

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