Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1910 — THE MAN, CRUMPACKER. [ARTICLE]

THE MAN, CRUMPACKER.

Mr. Crumpacker was here Friday evening, as he has been in every village of the district of over fifteen inhabitants. He spoke to a fair sized but chilly audience at McKinley Park. The chilliness was not due to the air. but to the position Mr. Crumpacker took on the various issues. This Congressman from the Tenth district now realizes that he has the fight of his life on hands with little encouragement from is own party. He used the same sterotyped speech here he has used in every other speech and his interview in the Indianapolis paper. He neither claims, in his speech, to be a a stand patter nor an insurgent but says he is a “progressive.”

To one of our men he stated that he was an insurgent and to another he said he was a stand patter, and On the Stand he claimed to be a “progressive.” No one knows just where to place him, and in fact he is just what the Reporter has said at different times, carries water on both shoulders and is willing to be almost anything to gain votes. He is a friend to everything and everybody as long as there is a chance to win a vote for Crumpacker, with one exception. He stated that Joe Cannon was twenty years behind the times and that he would not vote to return him to the speakership again. What base ingratitude. Just run over the Congressional records and see how Crumpacker has voted on every House bill. Every Cannon bill from the Payne-Cannon-Crumpacker tariff bill down follows with the name of Crumpacker as a supporter. Then who got the Congressman from the Tenth his important appointments that the county official organ was so boastful about a couple of years ago? The official organ said it was Speaker Cannon. One of two things look certain. Either Crumpacker has an understanding with Cannon and is carrying water on both’shoulders to delude the voters or it is an act of base ingratitude in declaring Cannon twenty years behind the times, when for twelve years of that time he has acted the “high private” and right bower of the Speaker. Either way you look at it shows that he is and has been carrying water on both shoulders.

Not two months ago in an interview published in the Tribune he was reputed to have said, and never denied, what he would do if an insurgent speaker came in his district. Note the rapid change of heart when he finds the district over threefourths insurgent, and to let the water run smoothly off of both shoulders he coins the word “progressive.” , Now he claims to have been the original “it" and ‘-progressive’’ in the House. But Mr- Crumpacker did not explain why he voted “no” on the amendment of the tariff bill to reduce the cost of farming implements. He did not explain why he voted to uphold the woolen schedule, to the cost of every consumer in the United States, and which means millions in the coffers of th e woolen trUst.

\\ 001, cotton. lumber and sugar are articles of commodity that al! in Crumpacker's district are interested in. yet he has persistently voted in the interests of the trusts as his record will show. Phe cotton trust, the sugar trust, lumber trust, woolen trust and steel trust have fared well at his hands, and the people of the Penth district that have paid him $75,000 salary have received what?—nothing. Now io further his interests in re-election Mr. Crumpacker is referring to his record in Congress, for well he knows that not one in ten thousand will ever see it, but he does not refer to the fact that every trust bill and every bill backed by Joe Cannon bears his signature and endorsement. Mr. Crumpacker is a great iover of the <«k| soldiers—until he gets their votes. W ithout referring to his record in Congress on this one point, we refer you to the bld boys at the Lafayetts Soldiers Home. If one out of every five at the Home vote for him they will do different than they talked two weeks ago. Action, not promises is what these oldboys want, but so far the only interest manifested by Mr. Crumpacker has been in their votes. Crunipacker is a shrewd politician, and well he realizes tliat his back is to the wall in a finish fight. His own party realize the two-faced representative that has been forced upon them by a machine politician who cares no more for his district than their votes will bring him. Crumpacker’s speech on Friday night convinced more people that he'was and has been carrying water on both shoulders than the Reporter .could have in a year, and a great deal of the expressed sentiment was: that he has' been a congressman just twelve years too long.—Brook Reporter. (Rep.)