Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — LOADING THE ELEPHANT. [ARTICLE]

LOADING THE ELEPHANT.

It is said that Congressman Crumpacker (standpatter) of the Tenth district threatened to stump the state against Beveridge if the state committee allowed. the latter to make speeches in his district. And yet the Republican congressional candidates (if any of them are elected I have agreed to vote for Crumpacker for speaker—provided Crumpacker is elected. No wonder the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette says; .

“With Senator Beveridge, the arch insurgent, warmly indorsed for and Congressman Crumpacker, the arch standpatter, boomed for speaker of the house, the Republican party managers have succeeded in loading the old party elephant in Indiana with a beautiful conglomeration of mixed baggage. It is admitted that the indorsement of Congressman Crumpacker was the work, of the new party managers, the amateurs at the business. The older heads would hardly have had the bravery to have fostered the deception or have been foolhardy enough to have even expected the rank and file of the G. O. P. in Indiana to swallow the bitter pill.”