joseph gurney cannon such that the house in session consists of doing what mr. cannon wants wants so we followed wilson's advice to a remarkable degree and we ended in this situation where we a dominant party with a pretty clear agenda, very clear differences between the party. after the election of 1896, right where we have william mckinley in and william jennings and cannon is sort of for the business orthodoxy the day and he's dominant figure but that comes with the problem of sort of stifling orthodoxy. this is the time of the second industrial revolution, very rapid social change and. we congress can't keep up when things are just joseph gurney cannon trying to say how things should be and eventually he faces a seminal moment in. congress, an insurgency from progressive republicans, his party who who bolt and join forces with the democrats, overthrow his dominance. he had been presiding over the rules committee. in addition to being the speaker. and he's stripped of that power and soon enough things are blown open. congress operates on a very different prin

joseph gurney canon. he was somebody who was raised in the wilds of western indiana in the 1840s here he was a dominant figure the first decade of the 20th century. he always had a good cigar hanging out the corner of his mouth and he played up his hayseed nature's way of dealing with the prospect has a very shrewd political operator became the dominant figure in washington for a time. and if i can, i need a clicker. there is a quicker summer. i'm not showing you a slideshow i was one cartoon that's my favorite of the whole book. this is a cartoon the caption of the, i better get it right the caption says the houston session according to the minority point o' view. that is what is in the script at the top. for those of yours online, you could describe the picture this is joseph gurney canon presiding over the chamber of the house. that gentleman from illinois the house is full of him scores and scores of copy such that the house consist of doing what he wants. they followed the advice to a remarkable degr