Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — How It Looks To Candidate Landis. [ARTICLE]

How It Looks To Candidate Landis.

Delphi Journal.—l see they are having an interesting time over in the tenth congressional district. A Republican candidate for congress is to be nominated in t that district the first week in June. There are two candidates, Hoh. J. Frank Hanly, at present representative in congress, and Edward Crumpacker, attorney at law, from Valparaiso. Hon. Jethro A. Hatch who was nominated two years ago as a compromise candidate, owing to physical disability has withdrawn from the race and the contest has resolved itself into a stand up and knock out fight between Hanly and Crumpacker. In allaround, roseate, ax-and-knife politics the tenth Indiana district will eclipse anything this side the island of Borneo. The mere thought of a peaceful political convention there makes the ” Republicans mad. They love war. Nothing is so delightfully intoxicating to them as the whiff of an approaching scrap. -The sound made by whetting a political knife is music to their ears, is Bweeter than the song of childhood. If there is a man, woman or child in the tenth congressional district who does not take an interest in politics, the fact has never been established. In the contest two years ago there was one man living in the north a ßMs3*of J ifilfffigd that he did not care which of the two candidates were nominated for congress. A few weeks after the Hammond convention, however, he committed suicide, jumping headlong into the Kankakee river. ' i It is a matter of regret that there are not several more candidates for this nomination in the tenth district. This would have a tendency to take the rough corners off the contest. These stand up and knock out fights are had things to have in the Republican family, but it seems that they have to come and when they come we must make the best of them. ]

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