Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1910 — THE CRUMPACKER MACHINE: [ARTICLE]

THE CRUMPACKER MACHINE:

The insurgent movement in the republican rank- is tine to one iking more than all others, ana while there is far more than one objective ifi the widespread movemeijX th’ s Qne i-' the real founda tion of insurgency. That is corrupt bossism. And in that line we wish to refer to the Congress’:nan from the Tenth District <>f Indiana, Ed Crumpacker. The Xational delegate convention held at Rensselaer has not been so long ago that the people of this district have forgotten it. While the Congressman from the Tenth was not personally there, hi- henchmen were cared for by hi* brother who directed in his behalf. The results of that convention will also be remembered.

Fifty postmaster delegates were the machine which held the convention to its desires. Two National delegates were t > be chosen, of which Will R. Wood. • Lafayette and George Ade of drv- .k. were ’ avowed candidates; When the nomination* were made the Cyumpacker machine threw <i->wn the dirty -mit of p< Ikies and showed tip its hideous and snarling race. In oppo-iti n to, Wood t’te Crumpacker machine put up the notorious Kit Sills, of Monticello, a slap in the face.of decent politics for the Tenth district. anti not only that, at the he. est <-f the political wolves thev elected Sills and threw down ,\ ■ <;d,. who. in the heat "f pas- < >n took the floor of the con- ❖ vention hall and told them some plain tacts about the political history of the notorious Crumpacker machine in this district. George Ade of Brook, was a candidate tor the second Xational delegate. For him the wolves reserved the .-ante dose, but even the friends>f Crumpacker rose up and in plain language stated that titey would not stand for this, even if trumpacker was the opposing candidate, but had it been other that the popular Geo. Ade. he would have received the bitter dose handed out to Wood, and ‘then only the determined stand taken by his many friends saved him from the same humiliation of defeat. This bunch represented the work of Crumpacker in "Congress” an<| were on the pay roll of the government and were there as a political machine to ’ the bidding of their master, regardless of what the decent element of the party wanted. Xow, Crumpacker has not a word to say that the decent element of his own party are working for his downfall. It is to d ovn this rotten bossism that has born the insnrgefit wing of the Republican party, and if you will review the last'few years of the Tenth district you will Be densely ignorant about politics if vou can n<ot tell where the master hand rests that has dictated its political life, and, as in the case of the nomination of the .Xational delegates, if fair means will not do, the rottehest methods of political chicanery- will be the resort. —Brook Reporter. (Rep.)