Identifier: withspeakercanno00moor (find matches)
Title: With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950
Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Book print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ster—Heilprins Conclusions—Martinique in the Revolution and Rebellion. It was late at night when we returned from the receptionat the Governors palace in San Juan. In such a climateconventional full dress naturally attracted attention, and wehad no sooner boarded the ship than signs of revolt amongthe other passengers developed. Some of the latter, good-naturedly I took it, intimated that special attentions werebeing paid the Speaker, and a rumor was spread that theitinerary was to be changed to enable the CongressionalParty to spend more time at Panama than had been origin-ally scheduled, and that to this end the trip to Venezuelawas to be abandoned. Up to this time Venezuela had been scarcely mentioned,but the rumor that it was to be dropped from the itineraryhad a remarkable effect. Suddenly it became the goal atwhich all had aimed. If we were not to go to A^enezuelathen the steamship company was playing unfair. It mustbe that the Congressmen were at the back of it. This was 58
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the: ISI.AND o:^ Martinique:. 6i what I gathered from the excitable ones, but when theysingled me out from the Congressional party and asked meto sign a petition to the captain to adhere to the schedule,the situation became amusing. Of course, I declined tosign the petition; then the insurgents knew for sure theywere on the right track. Headed by the Waterbury watchman they opened up for a battle royal. I insisted that wewere out for trouble, too. If they wanted an insurrectionit might as well come. Venezuela was the home of insur-rectionists, so we were simply going to our own. What tous was Saint Pierre and its awful desolation, or Kingstonand its earthquake ? We were out for blood! Mutiny,shipwreck, burning, looting—anything that would celebratethe trip and astound the people of the United States. WasI not one of the Bold Buccaneers of Barnegat ? What was the use of embarking upon such a trip as thisif nothing desperate happened? Unless we got our namesinto the newspapers, our fr

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