Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1910 — TWENTY THINGS THAT CRUMPACKER DID. [ARTICLE]

TWENTY THINGS THAT CRUMPACKER DID.

1. Voted for Joe Camion for Speaker of the House. 2. Voted against revising the rules governing the House. 3. Voted with Aldrich to put additional profits in the pockets of the rubber trust. 4. N oted for an increase of duty on structural steel, adding to the extortion of the steel trust. 5. Voted to retain the old duties of the woolen schedule, adding to the cost of clothing of every man. woman and child in the district. 6. Voted with Payne. Hale and Aldrich and not with Beveridge. LaFollctte and Bristow. 7. Voted in the interest of trusts and .corporations and not in the interest of the people. 8. N oted to increase the cotton schedule and thus further oppress the poor who must wear cheap clothing. 9. N oted to appropriate $12.000 to buy automobiles for Joe Cannon and Jim Sherman. 10. N oted to retain a 7% cent differential on refined sugar and admits it put millions into the pockets of the sugar trust. 11. N oted to retain a duty of $1.25- a thousand on common lumber, adding to the cost of building a home, and admits that lumber ought to be on the free list. i12. Refused to go to the pension committee with a delegation of Indiana congressmen and ask for a dollar day pension. 13. Helped to swell' the expenses of the billion dollar con 7 gresses many times.

14. Had his convention indorse the Payne-Aldr’ch tar’ff bill which he had helped frame. 15. Turned down old soldiers U,.>. -appoint pol’tical henchmen of his own liking. 16. Voted to reduce tariff on wines of the rich and to increase the tariff on the stockings of the poor. 17. N oted with Aldrich and Payne to strip the tariff'commission of all power and left it h.elp--lesstoi nv es tiga te. 18. Tailed and refused' at all times to raise his voice against the iniquities of the tariff bill, and in fact he helped arrange those schedules. , s 19. Made a speech in the i louse in defense of the tariff bill when even the members of his own party ill the district were denouncing it. 20. Has been employed in eases for the Standard Oil trust while drawing a salary for and pretending to guard the people’s interests at a fat salary of $7,500 per year.