Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This Roanoke gathering was the political child of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, arch-enemy of the Smith-Raskob leadership. In a public letter a few weeks before he had summoned it to overthrow the Byrd-Glass-Swanson organization which had supported Nominee Smith and was "defeated, discredited . . . still unwashed and still unrepentant." When Hoovercratic Virginians obeyed the call and met at Roanoke, Bishop Cannon sent them his son David, a 6,000-word platform, a special message and his blessing. But he stayed away himself...
...Adopted the Cannon platform in which Prohibition was called "the high-water mark of civilization." All resources were pledged to up-to-the-hilt enforcement...
...Denounced stockmarket gambling. A few days later Bishop Cannon himself was disclosed as a buyer and seller of stocks on margin in Wall Street. While not denying the facts, he loudly complained it was all "a contemptible Tammany trick" to discredit him at the opening of his Virginia campaign...
...turmoil which preceded the Civil War gave birth to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Born of politics it has remained aware of politics today when its most conspicuous spokesman, Bishop James Cannon Jr., is known throughout the land less as a man of God than as the bitter friend of Prohibition, the sweet foe of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
Last week Churchman Cannon was revealed in a new secular role. Investigators into the. affairs of Kable & Co., a bankrupt Manhattan bucketshop,* discovered that, like so many of his fellow countrymen but unlike most churchmen, the Bishop had been playing the stock market...