Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — TO DEFEAT CRUMPACKER. [ARTICLE]

TO DEFEAT CRUMPACKER.

A STRONG ANTI-CRUMPACKER CLUB TO BE FORMED. At Least 500 Young Republicans of this Cjty to be in Line for John Ross. Hammond Daily Leader, (rep.j The rank and file of the Republicans of Hammond are dead sore to-day. Congressman Crumpacker has written a letter to one man which is regarded by him and his many friends as the meanest kind of an insult, not only to the founders and builders of Hammond but to the true leaders of the Hammond Republican party and every real man in Lake county. The letter says he wishes he had 2,000 Hammond postoffices so that they might be given to all the soreheads. He further intimites that lie can get along very nicely without Hammond Republicans and especially without the leaders who put him where he is now by the liberal use of their own cash. There is a whole lot more of the buncomb which would seem to indicate that Crumpacker was not himself when he wrote it. The letter has set the “kickers,” as he designates them, on fire, and nothing will be left undone that may tend to defeat him in this fall election, so great and strong does this opposition promise to become that not only Crumpacker but the whole Republican county ticket will be jeopardized. There is plenty of material to work on and it will be used. The committee will send out a delegation of twelve and with a rousing good drum corps, a first-class quartet and the best of speakers. The entire county will be canvassed, meetings be held in every hall and school house in the county by antiCrumpacker We are confident that such a move, with the great truths that will back up the crusade* can but result in his defeat. His vote on the Hawaaiian question and his work with the alone should beat him. A largely attended meeting was held Sunday and another will be held tomorrow, and the way the young men are coming up against the pretender from Valpo is truly marvelous. One of our leading Republicans subscribes SI,OOO to the anti-Crumpacker campaign fund which will be swelled to $4,000 to $5,000. An open air meeting at the comer of Hohman and State streets is to be held some evening when the first gun in the campaign will be fired. Never before has there been such an interest in a congressional campaign as will be seen this year. Here is hoping that the result may be diastrous to the pretender and his usurping hirelings in Hammond. Three cheers and a tiger for John Ross of Lafayette, the next congressman from the 10th district.