Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — Crumpacker Should Resign. [ARTICLE]

Crumpacker Should Resign.

Republican. If the feelings of the patriotic i Republicans of Jasper county is a fair index of the tenth district generally, mid we are convinced that jit is. it will be useless to attempt j t<» re-elect Mr. Crumpacker this fall, and the right and proper thing ,to do will be to induce him to rejsign his place on the ticket, or failing that, to have the congressional ' committee declare the nomination ■ off. and to call a new convention. ’The Republicans here feel that ! Mr. ('rumpacker, in voting against j Hawaii at the time he did, and preceding that unpardonable act by the public explanation he made has betrayed not only the Republican party, but the nation itself. To have gone against the almost universal sentiment of his party, and of the most patriotic and broad minded element of all other parties, heretofore, on this question, would have been bad enough; but to go against that sentiment now when the exigencies of war have brought home to our people as never before the necessity of taking these freely offered islands, as a 'measure of tin t ion a 1 • lefense — is unpardonable. There was no one part of Cleveland’s most unpopular administration so universally condemned by the Republicans nor so generally by the Democrats, as his hauling down the American flagat Hawaii. And’there was no act in the official life of Walter Q. Gresham which di<l so much to wreck and destroy his former good fame as his support of President Cleveland in that matter. But at the time Cleveland ordered the Bag down, the necessity of its being up there was not half so apparent as now, when Crumpacker votes for it to stay down. Let us put up the flag and let us put Crumpacker down. It is the only course left for the Republicans of the tenth Indiana district consistent with true patriotism to the country and true fealty to the most patriotic party that ever swayed the destinies of our nation.

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