Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1911 — Crumpacker Speaks on the Record of Republican Party. [ARTICLE]

Crumpacker Speaks on the Record of Republican Party.

In the closing hours of the congressional’ session, Representative E. D. Crumpacker took the floor, and in a stirring speech reviewed the accomplishments of the extra session. He said in part: . “This session of congress closes with a series of triumphs for the president that has not been surpassed in modern times. The republican party, under courageous and capable leadership, is growing in popular esteem every day, and its triumph at the general election in 1912 is mortally certain. ' “Repeated attempts were made by the democrats in the house and a coalition of democrats and disgruntled republicans in the senate to embarrass the president, but every such attempt was a signal failure. Every scheme of that character afforded an opportunity for the president to get before the country, in a clear and emphatic way, the real attitude of the republican party in relation to the vital issues in the politics of the country. J “They were his opportunities, and he made good use of them.' The Hamans in the house and senate were industriously engaged in building a political scaffold on which to hang the president, but now they find themselves suspended between the heavens and the earth upon their own scaffold. They were hoisted with their own petard."